Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-29

| A
are you measured. Boston
means books. Books love you must
boast, no matter the cost. If you are
anybody at all, you must be booky.
If you are not properly CARRIED in book
| muslin; If you are caugth abroad, on
| the public highway by street car, afoot,
| or horseback. with no book beneath
| your arm--you are nobody. You must
| be the possessor of book plate; and
| the collector of old books, book plates
| book marks. and book knives; and you
must carry musty atmosphere about
you--if you would be n real somebody
You must be a bookish bookman or
bookworm from bookland haunting ev-
cry known bookstore, bookstand book
| stall and bookshelf; shadowing every
| known or unknown bookdealer, book
seller. bookmaker. and booNmongeT-
else you are bookless. But that is in
Boston.
In Salt Lake queer things happen
also. yes, and dangerous things that
| might be laid to little learning"
Two little children We're out i'm the
street one was four years old and
the other eight. Sewer connections We're
| being made in the locality, and there
We're trenches about And into one
| Of these trenches tumbled the little fell
low of four and out of said trench the
little sister of eight had some difficulty
fishing him. a pedestrian happen
ed along just as the rescue from the
depths below had been effected. The
little 4-year-old was muddy. and
| bleedy. and weepy and the little sister
as she Rugged him close was weepy,
too.
What is the trouble?" asked the
kindly by-passer
EDDY fell down that deep hole
Walled the little girl" and-and,- 1
could hardly get him out; and-he-he
might have died.
Where do YOU liye?.
Fright over there, in that house,
pointing across the street,
And why didn't you run for your
mother?"
II wanted to, but / darent.'
And why dare'nt your
"Cause she told me not to 'sturb
her
"Is she sick?"
mo; she's wrun' a paper for The
club"
Come on over sadie. after you take
your books home" said Jessie.
Sadie and Jessie are 10 years old
and school chums. 81 ought to practise
said Sadie, Tor an hour, anyway. but
I'll see; mothers gone 10 the club"
And so she'll never know; 80 has
mother: and I'm reading am awful fns-
cinating book MS under my pillow In
Size the case"
How wildly exciting; YES, I'll come.
What is the book lessle?'
ITS one OF Zuls's; mother would be
awfully shocked II she knew. Let's
hurry; | want To read one of the chap
tiers to you. II you can stand H. MS
pretty bad
Gomez
''Don't worry we'ro safe enough
nothing could bring mother home lrom
the club til its quite ont
A young woman was vigorously ring
ing the doorbell Of one OF the pretty
homes I'm this town. Vigorously be-
cause no ono answered, By aud by "a
little Ill-kept child appeared around tho
corner Of the house,
rs your mother homer asked the
young woman
Yes" answered the honest child.
The bell continued ringing.
she won't come 10 the door, though"
again from the honest child.
why not; IN she dressing?'
mo; she's gettln her lessons
Her lessonsg'
Eyes: she's wriun' about China"
well. win you go ia and iol your
mother that your brother Johnny fsu
out OF our apple Tree. and we think |
his legs broken ho WAS taking what |
didn't belong 10 him too"
A nervous young woman rides M and |
down on one " the cars, ana undcr |
her arm she carries a volume of Ba- |
cons essays II makes no difference the |
shattered state Of her noryes-Hhe must
study TO and from her work. as II ia |
the only time she mas Her work rs
stenosaphy, and she wears glasses.
llcr work Is "a strain ON cVoiy purt ~ !