East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-12-09

) MOTHER WRITES IN
BEHALF OF LIBRARY


With eager anticipation / heard by
accident a number of ladies discuss
ing plans for (oh,joy a free public
library for Pendleton The very first
question before | said with a bath, :"
| asked the hotel clerk on my arrival
IN "Pendleton the Beautlfur was
"where Is the public libryy?" Alas
and yet alas there was none. No mat
ter IL is just around the corner. now.
Try if you have any imagination, to
think of a bookless world, a booiless
town ana O. dear, a bookless home.
And we all know-al book lovers
lmow--how many years 1t takes to
gather about us even a part of all the
books we SO want to read and there
are many families who can not afford
to buy books, only now and then a
gift book, and that every family may
have young people who hunger always
for books. and stop and think, just
for a moment, what good books and
ready access to books mean to our
young people, our boys and girls How
real all the book friends of my young
er days (and are stilD were to me.
Dear Little Bah and eBtty. what good
influences they brought and later the
close intimate friendships with Lis
zie Hezam. Ruth Pinch and Little
Dormit. Dear little Dormit. how well
acquainted we are all my dear "book
friends" and the color has gone
through all my life and my girl
friends who were such an influence
for good Miss Coppertip and Miss
Slipperkin. wish all the girls in Pen,
dleton to make their acquaintance
when the new free library Is started
soon. Let's have wagon loads" of
Rudder Grange Every family that
has not taken turns reading Rudder
Grange alond to each other evenings
has missed a lot of joy and "Plut>
arch's Lives" for our boys all of
them. go around to the new free pub
lie library in the new city hall and get
Plutarch's Lives, my dear boys IN
stead of going down town this even,
tlE. W ~ W our ~ fdAN0A sAllfIl litilF
said: Il began to grow and to think
when I first read "Plutarch's Lives"
In the home libraries these are some
Of mothers and fathers favorites A
few gift books sent to John and An,
ma. But q public library fits all tastes
we can select to suit ourselves or just
go and CRUISE around" That's what
! like to do. \ thoughtful maXium
from my friend George Elliot. "a
laugh with Jerome X. Jerome.
friendly comrady' sort Of glow to-
ward Elizabeth of German Gardner
fame i'm my own little home circle ont
always wanted stories with babies in
and little orphans who after great
DISTRESS for several chapters We're
loved and adopted into beautifm
homes or little barefoot newsboys 60.
ing through cold and hunger and
finding man in the last chapter who
not only bought all his stock. but took
him to a warm, brightly lighted. near
by restaurant and gave him swell
feed" or | mean dinner The quiet
one wanted fairy tales with lots of
kings knights and princesses and lat
er became a student of mythology and
Greek history. The other always said
"Oh, tales of the sea, mama, with
sailors and shipwrecks and ships OF
all kinds" What would I have done
without free library?
Pendleton is one big family ah
aTke. only different. We must have
our free public library we are all to,
gether in this, aren't we.
A. MOTHER.