Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-17
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Use of the new Harrisburg Public
Library to secure information for de-
bates. essays and\what not has become
so general that the young ladies at the
library are required to be on the Jump
The reference work was inaugurated
by Miss Alice r. Eaton. the librarian
before the doors were opened and
during the month of January 116
questions of a formal character were
answered. and this number did not
| include information as to where to
/ lind certain things. 1t meant the CIV
ing OF information. In the first two
weeks of this month almost ninety
similar questions have been answered
and many people informed where to
look for data. Reference work is new
| In Harrisburg and Is something which
| has long been needed. The City Clerk s
| office, the Prothonotary's office, the
Mayors office and the School Board
on1ces furnish data about the govern
ment or the courts very promptly and
the Legislative Reference Bureau at
the Capitol has the State government
down pat, but the new public library
hts In mighty well as a place where
information on almost any subject can
the greatest place the students of the
high schools and of the grammar
grades ever knew to get the facts for
debating evenings or for writing their
! essays.
The officials of the Auditor General's s
Department who are in charge of the
mothers pension law receive some odd
letters In almost every mail these
days. Many women are making direct
application, being unaware that such
matters must first be handled by
county boards. Yesterday a letter
came from young woman stating
that her mother, who had planned to
apply Tor pension, had just died and
asking If she might not make the
application. Most of the applicants
go into detail as to their qualifications
Tor pensions one woman stating that
she was a cook housekeeper.
People who had shivers over attend
ing to any business on last Friday,
the thirteenth. can find consolation in
the fact that they have two more such
condolences ahead of them. The
thirteenth day. of March and of No
vember will fall on Friday. This year
has more thirteenth combina-
tons than any year in decade.
Uncle" Henry Houck, the Secretary
OF internal affairs, has just accepted
the invitation of the Lebanon Rod and
Gun Club to be POSTMASTER at the an,
nual banquet at Lebanon on March 8.
The dinner will bring together many
prominent men Of the Lebanon valley.
Some of the snow ramparts thrown
up by the cleaners of pavements have
Deen turned to excellent account by
the pugnacious boys of various schools
and several battles of the Civil War
nave been fought in the last few DAYS
IN which the storming of Fort Donel-
son and various other famous achieve
ments of the war have figured. Yes
terday, however, a policeman inter-
tered materially with emulation of
Anthony Wayne. One large snow
bank in Second street had been con-
verted into a fort with castellated
walls and was dubbed Stony Point.
unfortunately, the attacking party's
snowballs went high and pasted sew
eral parlor windows full of remind
ers or the season, and as the defend
ers ammunition appeared to concen-
trate on street cars the uniformed
anger OF peace put both Continentals
and British to rout.
People who heard Munson Havens.
the famous executive of the Cleveland
Chamber OF Commerce, speak before
the Harrisburg Chamber a few DAYS
ago We're impressed with him as a
leVel-headed. sagacious man of busi-
ness, and will doubtless be very much
surprised to learn that he is some
what of an author of the light and
airy as well. In fact, he is one of the
most versatile of men in American
business life to-day. as this criticism
or his work from the Philadelphia
Ledger will show: while the timely
and very readable love romance, "Old
Valentines" by Munson Havens. is
built upon the lightest Of sentiment,
never for moment does it lapse into
mawkish sentimentality; and through
out are evidences of sterling work.
manship. 1t deals chiefly with the love
affair of Phyllis Oglebay and John
Landless. Phyllis father was an artist
ana her mother an actress, and when
Phyllis falls in love with a poet her
matter-of-fact old uncle, Sir Peter
Oglebay, who brought her up. regards
1t as an unforgivable calamity. PHYLLIS
and John go their own way, however.
and are married Phyllis has no
money and John has bit little, but life
is made easier for them by discovering
In their landlady the old nurse whe
cared Tor Phyllis when she was a little
Dapy. Phyllis mothers name was
valentine, and Phyllis most cherished
possession is a wonderful collection of
old valentines which her father gave
her mother at different times. Tn
directly, these old valentines bring
about a reconciliation between SiI
Peter and the young neople. and the
story leaves them all happily situated
IN the old country home where John
lived when boy. 1t is wholesome
story of sentiment, with no problem
and Just enough plot to give it a pleas
ing flavor"