The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1915-07-22
SCHOOL READERS.
The Ones That Swayed the Boys
of a Generation Ago.
STIRRING "PIEcEs TO SPEAK"

4
e.vorite Selections Of the Days OF
Yore Find No Favor In the Newer
eooks-Lamsnt Of an Old iimer
and Bookstore Chat.
Forty school weeks mean forty FRI
day afternoons. Forty Friday after.
| moons mean to the pupils In some
schools near New York forty hated
piece speaking occasions.
"What,n asked the boy OF Smith Ap- |
nerson. pater. "shall i speak next
/ timer
| .sWhy not recite Richard III. to his
troops at Bosworth feldT Apperson
answered confidently. There's piece
with lots of slam and go to 1t. Or
there is 'Spartacus to the Gladiators.
"Who was he. Spartacus|
"Don't Won know who Spartacus
va.a Look in your Fifth reader. 1t
tells all about him there"
"Not In my reader" insisted the boy.
i .sNot in Mr. Apperson looked
stumped, but he pulled himself togeth-
or. "How about Freedom Shrieked
When Kosciusko FellT" he asked.
SCOT that in your readerF
''No, sir" E 3
.And MY Name Is Norval on the
Grampian HillsT q
sThe Grampians are In Scotland,
believe. but who was Norval and why
the limitation to his name2" the boy
asked. -.
"Hum! And that Midnight In His
Guarded Tent when the Turk Lay
Dreaming OF the Hour Got that In
: your readerT &
"No, SIR
"What kind of reader have you .gotY'
Smith Apperson demanded sOnce
more. Does the Deep and Dark Blue
Ocean roll on through any Of the pages
{ OF that expurgated edition they We
1palmed OF ON you for readerT
Ill "Wen, there IL something about the
e ocean,
. aGood; we've saved the ocean. How
= about Il Give My Hand With My Hear
n In Itf'' tsb s'e' rrss "a.
Il .Pshaw!. Everybody knows thai
= piece" y gJe arss- sa A
. ayes. yes; then there Is something
= besides waste paper In that reaoer
Z Does Y by any chance cry to you from
!. its pages to Strike for Your Affairs anc
= Your FiresE" Ras u ~ gAr
= sNOs SIR" aSt.- Fth "a gN- EbA
4My mistake" Smith Appersoa ex
g claimed. 81 asked you about that -piec'
2. before. It's a great one too. l uset
4: to get 1t on regularly twice term
!. and when /. didn't do II some -othe
q boyr. did. Neverea piece day cam
!. round hut some one struck ont for 81
81 altarsp and his fres.- I'll get you 1
:. copy of the kind Of reader used =
=. have" zsz 8 sssst r.ss 100 syess
u Mr.. Apperpon wentithe next day int
= downtown book store. known 70 M
as a place where, IL they did not hav
:. book, they would get It for you II
- wasst0 be had. 80. ssc. = swts Hg.l
--"I want a copy Of sMcGuney's o.
81 Fifth reader" said her rsar sss-sgrT
= $50 do H." replied Abe owner OF "a
q ,store, who knew Apperson well II
y buy a gross OF them Mt a-good pric
~ Scarcely a week goes by that do M
~ have a call for that book or for SON
10 other old school book ucesc- Es5.~
ne Glow asked Mr.. Apperson. Tho
ny do you account for itT' -ts rsaa "a.
ny .sWell. it's this way, said the pr
ate prietor, "a father asks his boy som
AS thing about what he himself had stu
IN led at school. thinking, probably, ]
De test him. The boy fails, to give, Il
nu- correct answer or says he never too
en- It In his grade. The father looks In
d. the boys book or books and finds,
ood perhaps In your case. that the stori
cry In which he delighted are not inclu
ed In the reader editions OF toda
Then he comes here to get sche
book that Is what he calls real sche
10 book.
sed For instance, only a few days a
nee a man came in for an old geograpf
OF He said the book his boy studied "
In" absolutely Of no account. historically
IN least.
ono ".What do you mean. history in
e 1t geography" asked i.
'asy why he replied, 4 asked my ;
pos about the isthmus Of Darien, and
anne had never heard Of such place; did
know there had ever been anything
par the sort. OF course he could and ,
fure tell me all about the isthmus Of Pa
1t ma, but Darien wasn't In his geog
ply. Now, / want that boy to KIN
there was an isthmus Of Darien, an
don't want him to have to take
ex- fathers word for 1t. Give me an
tail geography, one Of about thirty-i
ltor. years ago.
!. 81 couldn't fill the order. Old sch
10 hooks are rare. Everybody wants tn
have some to renew memories of their 70
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