Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-05-20

certain type Of book. while a boy
would prefer something else. but the
statement that the boys read better
books is not true, as far as we are
concerned"
AS far as books Of travel, history and
fiction are concerned. there Is little To
choose between the two sexes and both
the boys and girls seem to like much the
same books. y rather surprising fact Is
that the girls read the books that refer
TO life in a boys boarding school with
a great amount of space devoted 70
athletics, with apparently the same in
terest as the boys, while hooks thai
would seem to be written particularly
for the girls seem to find equal favor
with the boys.
Many of the boys are deeply inter
ested in wireless telegraphy, and any
hooks that are devoted to this subject
and flying machines are great fayorites
In spite Of the food of modern fiction
that IS written for boys and girls. the
children of Boston still find time 20 read
and enjoy such writer's as Stevenson.
Dickens, Louise Alcott and Lang's Fairy
Iales. Cooper is still a favorite and
the kiplng jungle books seem to be as
popular now as they We're a generation
ago.
=, Treasure Island" and kidnapped" are
me TWO big tayorteS of Stevenson, and
CcPlckwick Papers," "Tke Christmas
Carof' and David Copperfeld' seem to
nave as many admirers among the boys
ana girls that are growing up today as
they did with their fathers and mothers.
= vi the modern books, "Rebecca OF
Sunnybrook Farm" has an enormous
popularity with the boys and girls, and
that there is no danger of the present
generation of boys growing up race
OF mollycoddles is shown by the fact
that many of the youngsters in the big
room said in confidence that they would
not swap The Red Mustang or The
tainted Desert" for any book in the
library.
Plttsburg Women and Fairgrounds,
In 1896 the women of the Civic club of
Pittsburg made the discovery that Pitts
burg children did not know how to play,
Every inch of land in the great work
shop of the world had been given over
TO work. There was not Il playground IN
the city, \ committee headed by Miss
Beulah Kennard went before local
school board and asked permission TO
open few school yards, Offering to pay
all the expenses themselves. Their re
quest was refused. They hunted UP po.
lltlcal influence, and waited on Il second
local school board, This time they got
what they wanted.
That first year the women opened three
school yards. equipped them with play
apparatus and placed Il kindergarten in
charge of each. The next year, and the
next, they opened more. The fourth they
got an appropriation of $500 from the
school board. The fifth, the other won-
ems clubs of the city formed a joint play
ground committee and came into the
work, In 1908 the city's appropriation
was 100000.
Last May the Pittsburg play centers
held a festival in Shenley park--a beau
tiful piece Of cultivated woodland. The
children came tocking from the mill dis
tricts-1S0OO of them some in the cos
tunes of their fatherands some in the
CARDS of the various trade guilds Of the
Middle Ages; some dressed as Indians. as
early French Tappers. as English col
onists, as boys of 10" They first gave
a pageant depicting the history and de-
yelopment of Pttsburg, and then they
marched, and drilled, and sang songs,
and danced folk dances and played
games. They played. The women of
Pittsburg had given them back their her
ftage.-Frances Maulc Bjorkman in Van
Norden Magazine.