Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1914-12-11
WHAT YOU Gan GIVE
Helpful Christmas Present Suq.
geStlonS for Those Who
Are Puzzled.
Unabridged Dictionary Win Be Appre.
ciatcd by Children Of kindergarten
Age Other Suitable Gifts for
Young and Old.

15 NUMBER of correspondents
- 4 who have requested sugges-
TSErSfa tons Of books suitable for
Ss IS Christmas gifts will find an
@3as sWers to thei. queries In
W the following
Among the many attractive gift
books for very little boys might be
mentioned Professor Rausmssen's
"AnMosy Between the Homogeneous
prQtoplasm and the Silurian Mole
culc VIZ can think of no book that
would be n greater source of delight
10 the child that is not yet out OF
short dresses. II tells In easy words
of eight and ten syllables of the
sEorts and pastimes of the protopas'
mic family and draws beautiful moral
lessons from the corpuscles of the
earbonifcrous era. 1t is handsomely
Illustrated with representations Of the
agile animalcule and will be sure to
DELIGHT the heart of the little boy or
&rl who finds ii In his or her stock
my, as the case may be-
Another dainty idea for u child Of
three or four years is the Unabridged
Dictionary The simplicity of style
observed in this interesting narrative
recommends ii at once for children
who have reached the kindergarten
ace The plot is not so complex and
the characters are sufficiently varied
to hold the unfageing interest of the
little ones We have in mind a gen.
tleman Who gave his little son a die.
tonary last Christmas. and he as.
surcs us that the lad simply deyoured
the book.
A pretty present for a child is the
clinical report Of the county hospital
This comes nicely printed on clean
white paper, with bizarre illustrations
showing the rise and fall of the TEN.
perature, amount Of protocols eaten,
official count of the germs, statistics
as to microbes and many other anus.
ing and entertaining ideas. A rare
source of pleasure with this book is
to have the little fellows pronounce
the long words first the way they are
spelled and then read them backward
and see what difference, II any, there
is IN the sound. Some boys would
rather do this than go skating.
In the line of pure romance there
Is nothing more entertaining from
Prof T l.. EscopeX's How the Spec.
trum Caught On in Saturn" This
highly original historical tale tells
how the spectrum revealed the secret
Of Snturns rings. showing that the
planet was warm and dry and that the
two rings were for ice water. 1t
comes in four large volumes, with 90
pages of logarithmlc calculations that
are sure to delight young and old
As gift book for a member of a
temperature family there is nothing
pleasanter than The Complete Bar.
Keeper" This tells exactly what goes
INTO the stuff that men put In their
mouths to steal away their brains,
and will be of valuable assist nee to
any person who wishes to apply sat.
isfactory tests and determine whether
or not he has been equipped with
brains and would inspire larceny
One Thousand Ways to Cure
Cold, by Burton Bales, is a beautiful.
~ written book, giving all the rene.
dies for cold that we're suggested to
its author in one day. There are So
variations IF the quinine and whisky
treatment and the other 9ll rene
dies consist Of the same prescription
without the bitter quinine This is
a good book 10 have in any house.
The Servant Question and Its An.
swer" win deceive many people, but
1t might do for gift to young mar
ried couple The answer is quantity
given: Board"
WILBUR o. NES6lr.