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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-06

the Brothers Grimm, the stories of du
Chaillu and Jules Verne, and ]. T. Trow.
bridge-year after year the children
come to these in increasing numbers,
and they hold their own amidst an in
creaSing number of modern books about
such fascinating things as the wireless
and aeroplanes and adventures with
electricity.
Here and there, of course, the chill
dren of this more sophisticated genera
ton have fatty repudiated best seller
of the childhood of their daddies. The
great example Of this is Mrs. Burnetts
Little Lord Fauntleroy," which in the
public libraries, at least, has dropped
dead. Boys take one look at poor Cedric
in his great white collar and his immac-
ulate velveteen suit and fatty refuse to
take the book home, and even the girls
return it, after suspiciously short IN
terval, with the polite comment that
they don't like that kind of boy
Mrs. Burnett'S other books for children
have not suffered similar fate.
The overwhelming favorite of the
younger children is the Italian tale Oh
"PinocchiO," by Carlo Lorenzini. If any
adult reader does not know this story
he would do well to get a cOpy-ther
are several good translations - and
settle down in his easy chair for a Jolly
evening. The hero is a marionette, but
the story bears no resemblance to any
of the works of David Graham Phillips.
Down in the East Side branches the
children of eleven and twelve begin 70
demand grown-up stuff to read, sucn a.
Shakespeare and Victor Hugo, and al
the mature age of fourteen the boys
most of them with foreign accent, CT!
Tor book after book of Joseph Conrsu'
They have a great appetite for Amer
can history and biographies of Llnco"
and Washington. Yet have heard 'i''
descendants of old New Workers shaA'
their heads ominously over the mena's
of the Ignorant" aliens downtown
Recently ! talked with an intelllgeh'
husband and wife, uptown people, WV
when their son was born three year,
ago debated whether they wou''
eventually send him for his education y
Harvard or Columbia. They nave ~
cided to send him instead to the rS''
Side.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-06
Romance of the sea!

Begging the bos'n's pardon and Able
Seaman Browns, there is as much of
it in New York Harbor now as ever
was waited into Spain with the golden
galleons, or ever brakes and Hawkins's
sea rovers brought to Devon from
westward Ho"! Read it in the great
hulks and tunnels of the steamers-now
mostly Notwithstanding the docks
and dotting the bay. Read it in the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-06

Father Knickerbocker is getting to be
unite a reader of books, according to
officers of the New
ATTHE York Public Ii
LITERARY PUB brary. At least he
is dipping into
more library books than he used to and
steadily improving, on the whole, the
quality of his reading. In the big
library on Forty-second Street ne con-
suited nearly two and half million
books from the reference shelves last
year (there were $4,000 readers) and
he took home to read from the forty
four circulation branches in Manhattan,
The Bronx and Richmond, his literary
pubs, over ten million volumes. The
figures of books taken for home use
show a decrease of quarter OF a MIL
lion from 1915, because, on account OF
the poliomyelitis epidemic, the branches
were closed to children during the sum-
mer.
None the less the library has enjoyed
a remarkable increase in influence. In
1880, when the first circulation branch
was opened, our good citizens took out
2 total of %, 900 books to read O nights.
A decade later the circulation branches
handed out a total of 100000 books in
one year, and conservative folk viewed
this figure with alarm lest the mass OF
the people become overburdened with
such a volume of literary culture.
More than half the books taken from
The circulation branches last year were
fiction. Next in demand were books on
sociology-we took home nearly 100000
of those-and third came those listed
under the head of literature" Gnclud
ing poetry and drama), Of which we
used some 100000 volumes.
The biggest business of the circula-
ton department is done by the branches
on the lower East Side. OF course, this
is partly attributable to the fact that
the more prosperous folk further up
town are able to buy more books and
are not so dependent on the library.
But it is true none the less that cultural
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-06
RRAVTNG THE SUMMARIZED SEA

lion of the stolid men, stripped to nary
breasts and sleeveless shirts. But you
don't. for it seems as impertinent as to
ask another man why he will charge
through a barbed wire fence into RIP
ping machine gun for one full day OF
glory.
First, you translate the sea romance
of your landsman's mind to the unro-
mantle fireman of the sea. And then
YOU appraise him with an undertakerS
calm. You find refuge from tumultu-
Gus pity in the mOrtuary APPRAISAL
unless you grow hot under the collar az
rejecting that the ship and her cargo
are insured, while there is not penny
of insurance on the men.
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now the sea for him-and for Brown.
The sea ever after, even with It's new
perils and strange leviathans-perhaps
with an added attraction because OF the
new adventures winds and waves and
reefs being contemptuously stale.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-06
.HE BOS'N of the Mongolia, of the
Atlantic Transport Line, sailing

Atlantic Transport Line, sailing
from New York docks for the
war zone. was a square, "sawed-ot1
young man. His sea talk, except when
he talked of the ship and the guns. was
exactly "the Kansas language of his
class-the cow-puncher of the short
grass country, the fireman on Western
locomotives-the class" that does the
rough. adventurous work of America so
carelessly and so we'll
"Goodby. Brown" said the boS'n to
the agent of the Seamens Union on the
deck of the Mongolia. The rough-speak-
ing young fellow had gripped Browns
big hand. to Browns surprise. You
know" he said, as he dropped the hand
shamedly, Il mayn't come back
The three six-inch guns. two forward
ane one aft, pointed the bOs'n's allusion
So did the seventeen gunners from the
navy standing around on the deck while
the ships carpenters braced the vessel
for fights with submarines. SO, too, did
the war paint of gray that was going
over the former coat of white. when
we came back from London said the
bos'n, "the refectors playing on the
white made her stand out like the back
end of hack in a fog
The cher" of the bos'n's remark, the
Mongolia, was just going back to Lon
don with $4,000 tons of freight in her
hold and on her decks. She had come
back in ballast before there was war or
even armed neutrality, and she had
come through safe.
"What are the chances this time,
bos'n?"
Comm from London, just out OF the
Channel. stranger ship with four guns
on her, run all around us. We slgnalled
her to show who she was and to lay by,
but she paid no attention and kept on
runnin' all around us, though we was
coin some ourselves-seventeen knots
an hour"
You could reason for yourself what
the bos'n thought of the chances. Sup
bose another raider should run all
around her" after war was on and she
had her guns mounted? Suppose a sub
marine came up in the night and didn't
get its periscope shot off before
"Why do they do it?"
The visitor who had asked the cues
ton had in mind the miracle that men
could be found to man all the vessels
that are reaping now Uncle Sans
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-06

During recent months requests for
these libraries have sprung up among
small factories of the meaner sort. Abe
and Mawruss are going in for culture
for their employees. They have found
that facilities for reading, especially
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-06
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Rv HAROLD KELLOCK

books about their own trade and on
business efficiency and administration,
are productive assets.
Last summer the library sent a spe-
cial consignment of 5000 volumes to
the Mexican border for the Guardsmen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-06

Fifty thousand seamen are now estl-
mated to be sailing from the Atlantic
ports of the United StateS-far the big
gest lot of them, of course, sailing from
and to New York. The harbor was
never so full of craft. The ship mas
ters of South Street and Old Slip and
Coenties Slip and all along the harbor
fronts never were so busy. Some OF
them are square men who ship the
sailors squarely. Many of them come
mighty close to being crimps-though
the old shanghai" days are over-for
you can practically "crimp' a man yet,
if he is down and out, or the liquor is
too strong in him. and you are mean
and hard enough to take advantage of
his need and to lie about his contract
and the kind of rotten old carcass Of
boat you are going to sell him into. For
it's really a sale when the owner of a
dirty, leaky tramp pays the Ship
master or the ship agent" $50, or
even $50, for every seaman lured
aboard.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-06

%HE ROMANCE the mind of the man that stay
tn OF Seamans Union the Dos
Mongolia armed merohannan made no attempt 10
tOOhpik Perhaps he TOOK
mongolia Amer
nicely aimed shell the periScope ana
aggressive submarine The OF the
that ashore OF IT,
article nothing to disproe it,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-10

she has been attending Martha Wash
inston College.
w II. Nichols. Jr.. spent Sunday In
Bristol
Andrew H. Reeder returned to the
Gap last week from Washington
where he spent several days with his
mother and joined the national re.
serves.
Professor F.. c. Akers left on Thurs.
day afternoon for his home at Snow
VILE. near Pulaski, where he will spend
his vacation.
Miss Kathleen Knight, who has been
attending Martha Washington College
at Abingdon. returned on Tuesday TO
her homo here for the summer vaca-
ton.
Miss Mary Lee Maiden. who taught
the first grade here the past year lett
last Wednesday for her homo near
Abingdon.
Joshua r. Bullitt. Jr., left last week
for Washington. where he VIII go into
training for the United States Avia ton
Corps.
Mrs. j. X Taggart and two little
sons spent a few days here last week
with Mrs. TaEEarts sisters. Mrs. j. w
Chalkley and Mrs Ralph TasEart. be
fore going TO their new home at Roda.
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STAUNTON

Especial 10 The Times Dispatch
STAUNTON. VA, June Miss Ruth
Sublett. daughter OF Mrs. Julia y. sub
lett. has arrived home from Nassar
College for the summer. Miss Sub
lett recently won a valuable scholar
ship in class competition. She is a
junior.
dance vas given at the Country
Club on Monday night in honor OF
stuart Hall slumnae. here for the
finals. among them having been Misses
Margaret Eeindl. Of Richmond: Mary
Darlington. OF Ddnville: Adair skip.
with, of Memphis, and Mary ISlehart
of Baltimore.
Mrs j. f. 3. stuart, d former prin-
cipal was the honor guest at re-
ception. which was feature of Stuart
Hall finals. seven young women were
graduated al commencement
Miss l.. &. Kramer and her daughter
Miss Nathalia Kramer. who have beer
spending the winter here. while Miss
Kramer attended school. expect TO re.
turn 10 Richmond shortly.
Mr.. and Mrs. K. X. Mercereau ano
Miss Dorothy Mercereau will leave or
Monday to spend the summer a: BinG
hamton. " Y.
Mrs. Edward Echols and family hav,
arrived from Washington, where the,
spent the winter. and have rcopenec
their home here
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BIG STONE GAP
Especial to The T,mes-Di.patcb 7

Especial to The Times -Diepatch1
BIG STONE GAP. VA, June Big
Stone Gap had its Arst genuine pa
triotic rally on Sunday afternoon
which ras witnessed by more than
lions OF Wise and Lee Counties The
vacant lot in front OF the post Office.
in the center OF which STOOD nag
pole seventy-six feet high, was we'll
hMed before the speaking commenced.
The speakers stand was erected by the
side Of the Minor building and WAS
decorated with bunting and fags. Rays
Concert Band Of fifteen pieces fur
nished music. playing several national
airs.
Rev J. E. Graft opened the meeting
with prayer. General n 4. Ayers fol-
lowed With one OF the most patriotic
addresses ever heard in this section.
Following General Ayers's address. r.
7. Irvine made strong patriotic talk.
Rev. Roy F. Early, OF Appaiachis. the n
made stirring speech The hagrais-
ing took place At tho conclusion OF
the speaking. The Hag Is ten by
eighteen feel and was raised 10 the
top Of the pole while the band played
'Star-SpanEied Banner. after which
three cheers we're given for the Stars
and Stripes
Mrs. D. B. sayers and three chill
dren returned 20 their home here on
Sunday from An extended visit tc
friends and relatives IN Ohio
Miss Matte Brown returned home or
Friday night from Abingdon. where
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-10

# LynchburE. spent the weekend at
Captain T. Q. Troy's.
w. r. Crumpacker. of Bedford Coun.
~. was here on Saturday looking at
ter his business interests.
DR.. j. a. Morehead. president Of Roa :
noke College. was last week a guest
OF Professor G. II. Brown.
Miss Christine Gannaway. who was
one Of the faculty of the Amherst
High School during the past session.
has gone to her home in LynchburE.
Rev. Hugh Hudson, of Charlottesville
was here on Saturday on business.
Mrs. Gannaway. of Lynchburs, was
last week guest OF Mrs. W. w. HILL
and attended the high school com
mencement
r. II. Drummond. Jr., returned to
Richmond on Wednesday. after spend
ing several days With his home folks
here.
Misses Sarah and Jane McCauley. OF
Goodies, were the weekend guests OF
Miss Corrinne Watts.
William Robertson. OF Lynchburs
spent Sunday with relatives here
o. l.. Evans, Of Washington. spont
the weekend at his home In Amherst
Among those who attended tho Con-
federate Reunion from Amherst were
Mr.. and Mrs. e. b. McGinnis. Mr.. and
Mrs. V. McGinnis. r. A. Kent, G. L.
and A. G. Harrison. Paul Rucker. Cap
tain John NJ. Payne, J. j. Wright.
Herbert Vaughan and Mrs. Sam Richie
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. d. Cox, who spent
the past winter at Waverly, arc Wis
iting at r. NJ. CoSs.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-10

for Washington TO visit her sister. Mrs
Taylor.
Miss Nora Kersey spent tho week
with Miss Dorothy Prince
Mr. and Mrs. &. L. Smith and dauBh-
ter. Emily Drewry. left on Tuesday
for their home at La Grande. n. c..
after visit to Mrs. Smiths father.
Sheriff r. p. Turnbull. They took
with them as their guest Master Ed
win Starke.
Miss Frances May. who has been
attending tho Chatham Episcopal In
stitute. returned to her homo on Tues
day night.
Miss Harriet Purdy returned from
the Farmville Normal School on Tues
day.
Miss Elizabeth Blackwell. Of Vic
toria, is the guest OF Miss Robbie Lee
Rainey
Mrs Hon. OF Portsmouth, visited her
sister. Mrs. William DeVaney last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. w. A. Crinkley and
relatives last week.
Miss Mayhem Evans, OF South Eos
ton. was the guest this week Of Mrs.
Is. A Lewis.
Mrs. Clarence Rawlings and son. OF
winston -Sal lem. are visiting Mrs. J. p.
3arkley.
Miss Mary Heath Rainy. who has
hoen attending Sweet Briar College,
returned to her home on Wednesday,
Mrs. George p. Lewis. Of Meredith
willie. visited Mrs. B. a. Lewis on Tues
day.
Miss Nora Strobecker attended the
final exercises of the Farmvilla Norma |
School this week.
Miss Grace Stiff. of South Hill. spend
Wednesday Of last week with Miss
Maude Purdy.
Mr.. and. Mrs. Walter Turnbuil left
OH Monday for Washington to attend
the Confederate Reunion. Mrs. Turn
bull was one OF the matrons OF homer
for the occasion.
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nesday. II. S. Rucker made the well
coming address. The convention is
made up Of several adjacent counties.
Seven Confederate veterans attend
ed the reunion in Washington. A. w.
Robertson accompanied them and will
return by way OF Gettysburg. attend
ing the unwilling OF the Virginia Mon
uinont on the battle neld.
The June term Of Corporation Court
convened on Monday. Judge r. Fl. Gard
ner presiding. and was in session only
ono day jury was required.
Professor and Mrs. w. II. Sanborn
left on Wednesday for Statesvillc. n
c.. where they will spend the summer
| Mrs. Mamie Eubank left on We'd
nesday for Charlottesville, where she
will be operated on in a hospital.
| Mrs. Samuel Morris. after an illness
Of many weeks. died. and was buried
on Wednesday at Green Hill Gene
terry.
| o. NJ. Stull. his wife. and Miss kear
left on Tuesday on automobile
| trip to White Sulphur Springs, w. Va
Richard Reardsworth. of Indian
Rock. was in the city on Monday.
Emmett Heller. of Knoxville, is Wis
itinG his father and sister.
Mrs. w. W. Williams Is visiting her
sister. Mrs. j. w. Hardy.
Miss Mary l.. Powers left on sun
day for her home in Berryvile.
Mrs. w. a. Ross is visiting her sis
| ter. Mrs. j. r. McClucr.
Miss Lillian Mann left on Monday for
Charlottesville.
Mrs. Engle and Miss Ruth. who have
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-10
WHY SOCIETY WOMEN WASH
THEIR OWN HAIR

They do. not because it is a fad.
but because they wish to obtain
the greatest possible hair beauty
and be sure they are not using any
thing harmful. They have found
that in washing the hair IL is never
wise TO use max eshift, but is
always advisable to use prepara-
ton made for shampooing only
Many OF our friends say they get
the best results from simple
homemade canthroX mixture. You
can use tins at cost OF about
ihree cents shampoo by getting
some canthrox from your druggist.
and dissolvinE a teaspoonful in a
cup OF no, water This makes
enough shampoo liquid to apply to
all the hair instead OF Just the top
or the head. az with most prepara-
tons. Dandruff. excess oil and dirt
are dissolved aud entirely disap-
pear in the rinsinE water. Your
hair will be so fluffy that it will
LOOK much heavier than IL is. Its
lustre and softness will also delight
Sou.--Ady.
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BOWLING GREEN

Especial to The Times Dispatch.)
BOWLING GREEN. VA, June g.
Miss Simpson, who has been the CUES,
of Mrs. John G. Broaddus. has returned
to her home in Richmond.
MIR. and Mrs. George r. Collins and
Athol Collins are visiting Mr.. and Mrs
Charles L. Collins and family at Ross.
Ign.
Rev. Preston A. Cave, OF Washing
ton. is with his family here.
DR.. Edward E. Butler spent a par,
OF this week in Richmond.
Woodie Wright. OF New York. spent
part of this week with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. ". ". Wright
DR.. and Mrs. L. FL Rove. of Buena
Vista, are at their country home. Holly
Hill. for the summer.
Mrs. Nandersrit and daughter. OF
Norfolk, were guests this week OF Mrs
Mary E. Peatross
Mrs. Julia MANI and daughter. Doro-
thy. OF Washington. spent a part OF
this week with Mr.. and Mrs. A. B
Chandler
Miss Frances r. Rroaddus, who ha,
been teaching school at Stony Creek
has returned home.
DR.. j. NJ. Hughes. OF Richmond. spent
part OF this week with friends here
Miss Ellen Broaddus has returned
from visit TO relatives in Richmond
Misses Florence and Helen Broaddui
are visiting friends at Blackstone.
Among those who attended the Con.
federate Reunion in Washington are
Major T. y. CoEhill, Colonel Richarc
l.. Beale. OF the Governors STAFF: Mrs
T. r. Gill. Miss Annie Moncure. Mis-,
Louise IS. Cilassell. Miss Frances Glas.
sell, David r. Powers. John w. Ell
liot and Mrs. Joel Haines.
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lAWRENCEVlLLE
rSpecialto The Times-Disra.ch

Especial 10 The Times-Dispatch.
LA"RENCENILLE. VA. June o.
Miss Lizzie Turnbull was hostess on
Wednesday afternoon to the Auction
Bridge Club at her home. Harmony
Grove" Her guests were MrE. Frances
W. pavie, Mrs. Marie Heartwel. Mrs.
II. n. Prince, Mrs. c. L. Palmer. Mrs.
Mallory Turnbull, Mrs. Jack Shell,
Miss Caroline Bay!ey, Mrs. c. II. Se-
hreil. Mrs. Stuart Jones, Mrs. Burdette
Lewis and Miss Grace Mallory
Mrs. ". L. Price. OF "Millville," went
TO Petersburg last week to attend the
funeral of her uncle, Robert Meade.
She returned on Saturday. accom-
panied by her parents. Captain and
Mrs. g. T. Allen. OF Kenbridge. who
spent several days with her
Mrs. j. y. Kersey left on Saturday
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-10

The juice 90 two fresh lemons
strained into a bottle containing three
ounces OF orchard white makes a whole
quarter pint of the most remarka BILE
lemon skin beautifier at about the
cost one must pay for small jar Of
the ordinary cold creams. Care should
be taken to strain the lemon juice
through fine cloth SO no lemon pulp
gets In. then this lotion will keep
fresh for months. Every woman
knows that lemon Juice is used to
bleach and remove such blemishes as
freckles. sal!owness and tan. and is
the ideal skin softcner. smoothcner
and beautifer.
Just try it. Make up quarter pint
OF this sweetly fragrant lemon lotion
and massage it daily into the face.
neck, arms and hands 1t should
naturally help to whiten, soften
freshen and bring out tho hdde n
roses and beauty of any skin 1t is
wonderful for rough. rcd hands.
Your druggist will sell three ounces.
OF orchard white at little cost: and
any grocer will supply the lemons
Adv.
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BON AIR

Especial to The Times Dispatch.]
BON AIR, VA, June 3.-Several sum-
mer homes were opened this week for
the hot months Among them were
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Radcliffe. MFR. and
Mrs. Lucius Cary. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
West. and Mr.. and Mrs. Carter Will
liams.
MIR. and Mrs. William Ellyson were
here this week. preparatory to NOV
ing into their home for the summer.
Samuel Hurt, of Amelia. has been a
recent guest here OF relatives.
Mr.. John Douglas Christian. who
has been the guest OF Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Christian. left last week
Miss Helen Booker and Mr.. and Mrs.
lie Grange Cook have been visiting
Miss l.. E. Cook here
Miss Lucy Mason was with Miss
Hernine Moore for a fow days last
week
Mr.. and Mrs, Harry Berkeley and
daughter. Judith Cary. are in Rich
mond for a short visit to relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Withers Miller were the
weekend guests Of Mrs Polk Miller.
Mrs Charles Dickson, of South Bos-
ton. is here with Mr.. and Mrs Joseph
JchNston.
Miss Mary Burlington attended the
reunion in Washington.
Miss Irving Johnston spent several
days last o.ck IN South Boston
Joseph Sadier, OF Forest Hill, is
whiting Mrs. r. C. Bridgefrith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Safes Vassar are with
relatives on the Eastern Shore
The Canning Club, formed several
weeks $50. met III the Library Build
Ing on Friday with good attendance
Mrs. Stovall lis visiting her daughter
Mrs.. Joseph Johnston.
Miss Lucie Green is visiting selattves
in Bedford City.
Mrs. Robert Nee. Burlington enter
| tanned several friends at luncheon On
Tie Sda