Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-14
GOOD READING
FOR EVERYBODY
Cool and Long Winter Evenings Gre
ate Demand for Reading
Among all Glasses Of
People.
READING FOR THE CHILDREN
Plenty Of Books and Magazines fo1
Rich and Poor Alike at the
n Library.

With the cool nights coming or
apace and the long evenings here
more children are reading than fol
the past three or four months. What
they read is another matter; they
will read what they can get theil
hands on and read it with avidity. II
is up to the guardians Of their taste
in reading to help them in the selec.
tion Of good and enjoyable litera-
ture this winter. Plenty Of reading
matter lies right at the door OF ev-
cry family in Webster City. The
poorest have an equal chance with
the richest in the Kendall Young lib.
rary, where books and magazines
may be taken out free of charge six
days in the week and read and look
ed at and in the library on the sew
enth day. Some Of the newest and
most attractive books are now upon
the library shelves for young people
from three years Of age to twenty
three and on up.
The most beautiful of all is a big
book bursting with Mother Goose
tales, of which there has never been
duplicate. Children love to read
Mother Goose as long as they have q
child's heart and this particular vol
ume is illustrated in bright colors by
Blanch Fisher Wright and is quite
the most attractive thing upon the
shelves. There is also another Moth
er Goose book illustrated throughout
by Arthur Rackam.
The Little Lame Prince is an old
story but it has new dressing in
an attractive, brightly illustrated
xyolume just received.
\ Bird Legend and Life by Margaret
3oulson Walker, Des Moines school
Teacher, is q book of delight, illus
trated as it is with excellent photo
graphs of birds.
tBible stories for boys and girls are
we'll arranged in number Of small
books easily read in one evening and
are labelled, "Girls Of the Bible," and
Boys Of the Bible.' These are by
Dorothy Donnel Calhoun and are ex-
cellently told in the authors own
words.
Another Bible story book, by Eva
Marsh Tappan, is an excellent one
and the copious Illustrations are an
aid to maintenance of interest to
the end of the book.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
will never grow old to the growing
boy who loves blood and thunder in
his stories and for him there is a
richly illustrated copy of Arabian
Nights whose fascinating tales
charmed their grandfathers. This
book has been expurgated of some of
its former Objectionable features and
this particular volume was edited by
Kate Dougles Wiggin and her sister,
Nora Archibald Smith.
There is volume of Peter Pan by
j. M. Barrie that would interest and
delight grownup, but young per-
son of any age would like to read the
book.
There is a series of unusually in
teresting books for young people all
the way from ten to eighteen years,
containing tales Of trips through
Scotland, Ireland, Spain and Ger.
many-each volume written by diff
ferent author-.but all coming under
the head of the Little Schoolmate
series. These have pictures also, and
a book nowadays for young people
without pictures is like cake with
out sugar.
What Shall We Do Now? ought to
entertain and satisfy the most rest
less young mind, containing as it
does 500 games and pastimes from
candy making to paper dolls and the
making of furniture. This is popu-
lar volume and one has to be nim-
BILE to find it at home when they call
at the library.
Then there is series of delightful
books called the Work and Play ser
les; these are volumes upon House
keeping, Carpentry and Woodwork,
Hone Decoration, .Needlework, Out
doc. sSports, Games, etc. They arel
all nNutifully illustrated.
There are some books Of historical