Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-18
SCHOOL BAZAAR
IN NOVEMBER
Book Department Interesting
Feature of Fair to Be Given
by Combined Schools

The large school bazaar, to be held in
Philadelphia during the last week in No
vember in Scottish Rite Hall, Broad and
Race streets, has as one Of It's most inter-
eSting sections the book department The
committee in charge of this department con-
sists Of Mrs. L. Apgar Malvin II. Beid-
ler Miss Sophia f.. Foel. Miss Anna Glenn,
Prof Joseph Goffschalk. Frank Henry
Prof Horace w Hoagllnd, Miss Emile "
Jacobs Mrs, Sally Healy Klang, Miss Mar
garet j. Mccoy. Miss Gertrude Mcintyre,
II. j. Mclaughlin Prof. S. c. Malcolm
son, Norbert j. Melville, Miss Mary l..
Morlarty, Miss Margaret Noble, Miss
Bertha d. Poole, Miss Edith +. Rice, Miss
Alma V. saurewalt, Miss Rachel Selecter
Miss Marion X Sproule, Miss Elizabeth
TAFT. Cornelius j. Walker, Prof. Clarence
A. Wesp. Miss Elizabeth Wood and Miss
Bvaline Young with Mrs. Katherine Lacy
as chairman. Each of these persons was
appointed by one Of the high or normal
schools or by an affiliated educational or
ganzation as it's delegate to the book
department; and each delegate in turn
selected ten friends as auxiliary members
of the committee. with such a large and
active group OF workers the success OF the
book department seems assured,
The work of soliciting donations from
the book publishers was given to Mr.. Nc
Laughlin. During the summer he sent out
about two hundred letters appealing for
Some letters brought a meager response,
while some few reached real patriots who
gave nobly One of the most generous
donations given by irm was that of
100 fine books.
To secure additional material the city
was divided into ten districts, and the fol-
lowing delegates were directed to ask each
teacher in the respective districts for
one book In district one was Miss Eliza
beth A. Schell, of the Comegys School; in
district two, Miss Sallie Morely, Of the Poe
School; in district three Miss Emile
Jacobs, of the Baugh-Close School; in dis
trict four. Miss Margaret Noble. of the
Dunlop School; in district five, Miss Eva
line Young. of the Philadelphia Girls
High School in district six, Mrs. s. H.
Klang, of the Paxson School in district
seven, r. J. Mclaughlin. Of the Welsh-West
school; in district eight Miss Mary Caro-
land, Of the Harmer School in district nine,
Miss Anna Campbell, of the Howe School;
i'm district ten. Miss Miriam Thomas, Of the
Longfellow School All books will be do
mated TO the army and navy, libraries hence
the public is doing patriotic service In
giving the bazaar contribution.
Another feature of the soliciting cam
paign was the securing of special COM
mission rates in current popular novels
the leading publishing houses generously
granting the committee a special Red Cross
rate If you plan giving books as Christ
mas gifts, the committee urges you to help
the Red Cross by buying your books at
the bazaar.
The book department will have a Bazaar
Calendar, the result of 1000 personal letters
sent out by r. Mclaughlin He went
through the 1900 pages Of Who's Who"
and selected the leaders In the world OF
politics, education, art and literature. Each
of these received from him a request for
an original thought or a favorite quotation
and. II in the Bazaar Calendar you fail to
hnd your favorlte writer, actor or states
man, the probabilities are that he or she
was asked and refused-naturally, 100 per
cent of these notables, big or little, were
moi secured but the replies received con-
stitute fine collection.
The names and thoughts can be found
there of President Wilson, Secretary Lans-
ing. Cardinal Gibbons, Senator Knox, Sem
ator Lodge, Thomas Edison, Luther Bur-
hank Major General Pershing, Ambas-
sador Jusserand, Ambassador KOO, Ambas-
sador df Cellere, etc, with those OF numer-
ous college presidents and school officials
rhe stage is represented by quotations sent
nv Viola Allen, Margaret Anglin, David
ReIasco, Billie Burke, John Drew, William
Faversham, Madame Nazimova, Henrietta
Crosman, Otis Skinner, Louise Homer,
Johanna GadsSi. David Warheld. etc A
great number OF authors are mere, includ-
ing John Galsworthy. H. q. Wells, Edward
Rostand, william Dean HoWells, Eden
Phllipots, Helen Kellar and Richard IL
Gallienne.