The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-11-12

long time; to say this in Portuguese,
I mean, and created much diversion
by using the verb "to die" in place of
the one "to live" the two differing by
just one letter, and by an extra roll Of
the "r" accorded to the former,
Aside from the war development
and what it may give rise to here, l
can tell ahead about what will be our
program for the rest of the week, the
usual lessons, Thursday morning, at
dentists Che finally recovered and
sent Mrs. Pratt word) to have FL
ling replaced that broke away since
l came down here, daily trips for
Henry Tave's and working at the mail
in between times. Also we have some
reading matter just lent us by an &C
quaintance in the hotel, and We'll have
to have a little reading aloud of an
evening to make the most of that.
Tuesday morning.
Just at this point Henry came in
with joyful news that he had some
mail. The usual mail did not come in
last week so we were afraid that we
would have to wait another two weeks
We revelled in our letters which were
from the two mothers, one father, and
grandmother in California. Those let
tiers shall have separate attention, but
their coming is an event of general in
terest to be recorded in the weeks
calander. We read letters till dinner
which we had early to prepare for an
evening engagement, one that l for
got to mention in my forecast of the
weeks events. 1t was to go, with
an acquaintance of Henry's, Mr..
ROUTE, to the National Library. In
talking with this gentleman Saturday
evening he happened to mention that
he was accustomed to go to the libra
ry nearly every night. We said we had
been in once but had been rude!y hail
ed from a reading room that we at
tempted to enter by an assistant
whose explanation we failed to under
stand, and since then we had not re-
peated the experiment. Mr.. ROUTE
said that if we cared to go with him
he would show us the ropes, and we
were only too glad to accept his in
vitation.
He took US to the reading room and
explained the system Of obtaining
books and magazines, an elaboration
of red tape that would have been ap-
propriate in monastic library in the
middle ages. We were amazed, how
ever, at the widely representative list
of magazines. We made our select
ions, wrote the names of the period
icals we wanted on slips bearing our
names, addresses, and the number of
the seat in the reading room which we
were individually to occupy. Then an
attendant brought US our reading
matter. l had the April, May and
June numbers Of the Library Journal!
1t did seem queer to be reading that
in Rio de Janeiro. Besides that, we
had the American and English Review
of Reviews, Harper's Monthly, The
South American Journal, published in
London, and Harper's Weekly. We
were delighted to be initiated into the
means Of obtaining such reading mat
ter. There is one thing to be said for
that library, that, aside from the pos
sibilities Of theft, one can scarcely be
answered at the desk, in reply
to request for certain book.
that "it is outp since neither books
or magazines are circulated. I be-
lieve it is possible, on rare occasions,
on consideration Of a written permit,
and a deposit of several times the
value Of the book, to obtain permits
sion to take it home. The lights in the
reading room seemed to have been ar
ranged by someone with an eye to
the general effect who had no desire
TO sit down and read there and see
how they served. The first Inn
preston, as one entered the room, was
IF very agreeable, well .diffused
light; but after had been reading for
awhile q desire to stand on my desk
and to get nearer the electrolier kept
coming over me. I managed to con-