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New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

procession becomes a mad rusb f.,
post No. 4. Children squeal and
perform a sort of May-pole dance
around the whitewashed pillar
sedate elderly women pick up tbei,
skirts and hurl themselves into the
Ihrong, the Boston bags vibrate wifi
the excitement.
"A car approaches and they surge
on board. The only calm person ir
the lot is the conductor. The Bostor
conductor is always calm, ALWAYS
polite; he never loses his pojse q,
MS temper nor fails to answer the
most asinine question in most
respectful manner.
BE very careful, madam" he saws
the step is unusually high; take
your time, the car will wait" Quite
different from the Step lively" OF
his New York brother, which is
usually accompanied with poke in
the back.
Just as the car, now filled to the
last inch of standing room, is about
to start, the conductor addresses the
multitude:
This car goes to Jamaica Plain g
he says.
There is a great to-do. The tide
turns. There is a general exodus. 4
grand rush for the door, buzz of
conversation. The wrong car stopped
at post No. 4. The conductor. who
was absolutely blameless in the mat
TER apologies most abjectly for the
mistake.
The crowd, back once more on the
cold concrete floor of the dungeon
fixes its eyes on the Indicator with
the same suffering, patient
stare. 1t hasn't long to wait. An
other car comes into view around
the curve-another car? No. on
second glance it is a train of cars.
1T stops at post No. 4, and the Nav
pole dance is repeated, and this TIM
there is no mistake. But never.
never in all my life have I seen
anything like this train Of cars.
Here is a bright and shining ex-
ample of New England thrift, for
who but New Englander, | ask
you, would ever have conceived the
Idea OF taking two old cars and join-
ing them in the middle by means of
a bit of another car so that thev
look exactly like two rooms and a
bath on wheels? Yet they answer
the purpose very we'll. They have
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

tlvities all the time. II recently pub
lished its first book. fairy story
called "Guld, the Cavern KING" by
Mary l.. B. Branch 1t holds weekly
conferences on Saturday mornings
during the winter. presided over by
some person well known in the liter
ary world, for the benefit Of teach
ers and librarians. During the sum
mer it sends collections Of books
suitable for children's summer read
ing to the resorts along the nortl
and south shores of Massachusetts
While bookshop for boys and
girls may seem a novel idea. as
matter of fact it is at least two
hundred years old, for away back in
the early part of the eighteenth cen
tury John Newbery established
Juvenile Library" in London, and
shortly after this several other book
sellers followed suit. the most cele
brated being Mrs. Goodwin. whose
Juvenile Library in Skinner Street
was known throughout England.
SO far as one can ascertain. the
first juvenile bookshop in this coun-
try was established in PHILADELPHIA
IN 1902 by one Benjamin johnson.
William Wood. an English member
Of the Society of Friends, opened the
first Juvenile bookshop in New York
IN Pearl Street in the early part of
the nineteenth century, but for
fully hundred years no one has
seen tit to open shop devoted exclu-
slvely to the sale Of children's books
until about year ago. when lit
tie Miss Mahoney in Boston saw
the possibilities of such an enter
prise. She threw open the doors of
that big, CHEEKY room overlooking
the Public Garden to the little peo-
pie whose good fortune it is to live
IN the city which is hallowed bv
memories of Louisa VI. Alcott, Jacob
Abbott, Lucretia P Hale, Sarah
Orne Jewett, James Otis and the
rest, whose books are beloved by
children the wide world over.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
!. They are real human

consideration. They are real human
beings"
The Bookshop for Boys and Girls is
boon to parents, particularly those
who have had little experience with
children and whose firstborn has
just reached the age where he is
anxious to exercise his newly ac-
quired talent by reading stories for
himself. Two such parents, neither
Of whom looked a day over twenty
years of age, were sitting on the
floor Of the shop ON the morning
of my visit, eagerly discussing the
books ranged on the lower shelf
of one Of the bookcases.
"'Five Little Peppers,' said the
pretty young mother. "How
adored that book! But / suppose
Betty isn't quite old enough for that
yet. I'd love to read it again my
self"
"'Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks With
the Circus said the young father,
picking up book in a red binding.
"By George, that was a crackerjack!
Same old binding and same old il
lustrations. I'll buy it now in case
it's out Of print by the time that
Billy's old enough to read it."
"And Polly Cologne Fancy my
forgetting her! How Betty will love
her!" This again from the young
mother.
"And The Peterkin Papers, /
say, Dolly, this is some shop!' from
the father. From all of which one
may deduce the fact that the chill
dren are not the only ones who en-
JOY rummaging through the volumes
at the Bookshop for Boys and Girls.
Many an old acquaintance has been
renewed within the CHEEKY walls of
that book-lined room.
The pictures on the walls over the
bookcases are carefully chosen and
depict favorite scenes or characters
in juvenile fiction. They, as well as
the books, are all for sale.
Inc oookshop is extending it's ac-
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

boston IS at It's very, very worst
on a rainy day. The dampness. the
east winds and the muddy streets
are nai enough. but the he-dragplea
dowdlness of the pedestrians adds
hundredfold to the general rloom.
"Rany day clothes ! had forgot
ten that there were such things. It
all comes back to me, however.
There are three grades of clothes IN
boston-"best clothes. EVERYDAY
clothes" and rainy day clothes &"
Rainy day clothes'-toques and
suits. Of the vintage of l900-vou
can see a long procession of them
on Boylston Street any rainy morn
ing And the expressions on the
faces Of their wearers are CORE
spondngly seedy. for what woman
can feel cheerful or happy when she
is looking her very worst
When l first came to New York
spent an entire afternoon gong
from shop to shop in search Of a
rainy day hat. Creations of lace
and satin and feathers were shown
me, and / patiently explained over
and over again that it vas plain.
rainy day hat" that desired.
was met with puzzled looks and
shrugs Of the shoulders, until at last
l met a superior person who under
stood. "Oh, yes" she said. 81 know
exactly what you mean. | used to
work in Boston"
Prohibition has had a curious ef-
feet on Bostonians. | fancy IT is
only another instance of New Eng
land thrift, of saving and laying by
Tor the traditional rainy day. only
IN this case it is for dry one. Men
VINO have never drunk glass IF
Sprltuous liquor in their lives have
filed their cellars with kegs and
bottles fun Of rum" which is the
New England name for any kind of
intoxicating liquor. in case that ut
some future time they might like 20
drink. The papers are filled with
recipes for home brewed liquors,
most OF which feature the prune ms
an absolutely essential ingredient
with the result-and this is To-
gospel truth-that there is a nr,,rr
famine in Boston,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
'Back H0me'-By a Native B0st0nian

drive New York was all agog with
excitement and the display on the
outside of the Public Library looked
like the billboards of a country
town prior to the arrival of the
circus. | went to Boston and came
out of the Back Bay station into
Copley Square, and there stood the
Boston Public Library, pure and
undetiled, without so much as a
recruiting poster on it's classic
facade. In fact, there were no p1ac
ards displayed on the fences or
public buildings anywhere, and
commented on this fact to mysfela-
tives and asked if they knew that
we were at war. They replied that
they did not display their feelings
in the vulgar fashion of New York,
and they saw no reason why the
beautiful architecture of their city
should be desecrated because there
was fighting three thousand miles
away. I'VE have sacrificed the
Common to war work." said they,
''surely that is enough"
saw those "war buildings" on
Boston COmmon-trim little white
cottages, with neat little grass COW
cred front yards inclosed in white
palings, as neat and prim as a
New England schoolma'am.
| love Boston-its crooked old
streets, its cobbles, it's lovely Colo
nial buildings, and the view of the
sunset down the slope of Beacon
Hill. The sight of the gilded dome
of the State House gives me a
thrill such as no foreign cathedral
ever gave me.
At the same time / can see it's
funny side, and there is no doubt
about tit is funny. Where on
earth, for instance, save in this lit
erary centre of the universe, would
you find tombstone maker who
advertises himself as "mortuary
architect?
With the memory of this and SIM
liar "highbrow" signs in my mind,
it was a distinct shock when / dis
covered displayed in a restaurant on
Copley Square this legend: Ladies'
Lunch. With or Without Escort. :"
| am quite sure that che man who is
responsible for that sign is an "off
islander"
We may revile the New York SUBJ
way, we may grumb!e at every step
as we "follow the green arrow"
along the circuitous path that leads
from the Grand Central Station to
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
of lslanders'' Are
To Be Pitied

Its provincialism is appalling. A
blatant example may be seen in its
newspapers, which feature on their
lront pages IN big type all the petty
little local happenings and tuck away
on the inside of the sheet the really
great events Of the outside world.
Richard Waldo, formerly of The
tribune, created tempest in the
Boston teapot by declaring right
out IN meeting," before a Boston
audience, that "The Christian
Science Monitor" was the only real
i've newspaper in Boston, and he
was right.
The newspapers are not to blame.
Ihey are merely catering to the
taste of their readers, and those
readers are not particularly inter
ested IN the happenings of the
great world outside their city linn
us. Their attitude toward that
world Is much the same as that of
.ne inhabitants of the island of
nantucket, who are wont to refer
70 the millions of people who have
no' the good fortune to live on
"elr hallowed soil as "off ISL
aEders."
NJ the time of the great German
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
The Boys and Girls Bookshon-Bv

wise Turn" in fact, it might we'll
DC It's younger sister. The same
Ideals and principles have governed
Its founders as those which inspired
the directors of its elder sister, and
IT it is a trif1e more conservative
than its New York relative one must
remember that its patrons are among
the younger set" and that it's hab-
itat is Boston.
The Bookshop for Boys and Girls
Is only a year old. 1t grew quite
naturally out of an experiment which
was tried by the Women's Educa-
tlonal and Industrial Union of Bos-
ton, of producing childrens plays
with child actors. The experiment
was not entirely successful, but it
did serve to bring the children of
the members of the union together
and to make them feel at home in it's
rooms. 1t seemed a pity to lose this
contact and so Miss Bertha r.
Mahoney. who had been in charge
OF the play producing experiment
and who through this work had be-
come intensely interested in child
literature, conceived the idea of p
Saturday morning story hour for
these boys and girls, particularly
the younger ones whose ages ranged
from five to ten years. A pro-
fAss onal story-teller entertained the
cnldren at these weekly meetings
and stimulated them to read stories
TOR themselves, and from this grew
the Bookshop for Boys and Girls.
Here one finds books for children
OF all ages from five to fifteen, good
books all of them, but not neces-
sarlly of the "highbrow'' variety.
There are juvenile classics as we'll
as modern books of fiction and
travel and history. A great feature
of the shop is its French department.
These books are carefully selected
by Mile. Clement, professor of
French language and literature at
the Lycee de Versailles.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Rainy Day Clothes
Are a Conviction

tS-you-enter.'
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Ip~r1narnssu.
,rr~~---.> .>.-u>-r-vr~---~rA
.WO elderly Boston ladies were

y
sauntering along a country
road on the outskirts of the
ity when they came upon mile
stone bearing the inscription, Il m.
ON Boston," Look, sister," said
one, "here is an old tombstone. Can
NJ read The epitaph?"
The other adjusted her spcctacles
nd bent over the moss covered
lone. It's quite plain,' said she.
I'm from Boston, How simple,
ster, and yet how sufficient"
This has always been my favorite
oston story, because, to my mind,
there never was one which illustrates
SO well the real Boston attitude
coward the rest of the world. 1t is a
dreadful thing to be so supremely
veil satisfied with ones self, and vet
It is the heritage of every last one
OF us who were born in Boston. 1t
is just as much part of our being
as is our New England conscience
and just as difficult to get rid Of.
Boston is the Peter Pan of Amer
ican cities. 1t is the town that will
never grow up and village it will
remain until the end of the chapter.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

4 I FIRST glance it just looks
"A like big, comfy home IL
brary with its chintz hang
ings, its bright windowdoxes, its
gaily colored pictures and it's rows
of bookshelves, with here and
there a round table, all filed to
capacity with books and magazines.
When one looks little closer, how
ever, one discovers that the chairs
are lower than the ordinary library
chairs, that the pictures are for the
most part beautifully colored illus
trations of we'll known fairy tales
and that the volumes on the tables
and shelves were written exclusively
for boys and girls.
In short, this is the celebrated
Bookshop for Boys and Girls, whose
fame has gone forth among the
juvenile population throughout the
land.
Sitting in state on the ,old-fash-
toned mantel is the presiding genius
Of the shop, Alice Heidi, a lovely
French doll, christened by the chill
dren, by vote, with names of their
two favorite hetoines, Alice, of Won
derland fame, and Heidi.
The bookshop bears a very strong
family resemblance to our own "Sun-
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

Times Square, but, let me tell you
this is a "strait and narrow path
compared with the complicated maze
of the Boston socalled "rapid tran
sit' system. Everybody gets lost
in the Boston subway, even the old
est inhabitant, and they expect to
get lost and calculate their time for
reaching their destination accord
ingly.
"How do you ever know where to
go" | asked my mother, who has a
pretty good bump Of location.
81 don't know" she replied. "No-
body knows. One just keeps on try
ing until one finds the right train.'
A Perfect Circus Is the
Boston "Sub"
A visit to the Park Street Station
Of this underground maze during
rush hours-if there can be said to
be such a time in Boston-is much
more amusing than going to the
circus. The woula be travellers
meander slowly. dow. the steps of
the barest, coolest, most cheerless
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
<--nHHnHnHnnnrawwn<B
-~~rsnlu

become a prepayment" car, which.
II you please, is Bostonese for pay
-you-enter."
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

by himself" hidden away in a
drawer is worth a dozen of those
lying in plain sight on the table.
They are real people, these chill
dren," declares this same wise little
person. Seeing them as l do here
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

younger children are hidden awav
with malice aforethought, for wise
little Miss Mahoney understands the
psychology Of her little patrons ex
ceedingly we'll and she realizes that
book which a child discovers call
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

has taught me great deal. realize.
for one thing, that the condescend-
ing attitude which we grownups
are wont to assume toward children
is all wrong. They have minds and
IDEAS which are we'll worth our sober
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

4 T FIRST glance it just looks
n like d big, comfy home IL
brary with its chintz hang
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-08-18
TWO ON AsTRlNG.

The heart appeal Of "Jane Goes
a-Wooing," the new, Paramount pic
ture starring Vivian Martin, which
will be shown at the Elko theatre
tonight and tomorrow, is certain to
make it popular, with Aim fans, &C
cording to reports. It has decidedly
more dramatic interest than most of
the recent Martin stories and in ,ad-
dition presents a likeable and happy
story written by Edith Kennedy.
Jane had a will Of her own-and
when there's a will there a way
Jane always had her. way; no matter
what she wanted her will always
showed the way. SO when Jane
Vivian Martin in Jane Goes .A-Woo,
ing" a Paramount picture-wanteo
a beau she got him. She had to keeI
two of them ION string" for a LONG
while, but she got a beau!
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-08-18
JOIN THE BEMIDJI ASSOCIATION

Today is the first day of the drive for memberships
the Bemld Civic Commerce association and again de-
sire to reerate that who has the best
teres of Beid at heart afford not to bea member of this
organization.
makes difference what your calling may be, whether
in business wage Garner, boiled shirt
pair of overas while making living for the good wife and
children in the house is making payments The
doing that the right kind of member being sought the
citation and frequently he of the Invest boosters the
best interests of his community.
The membership fee has been eliminated from the
ganizaon and dues only $40 payable Septe
Der and the remainder next months later if DESIRED
is we'll worth to be identified with those who determined
to aid in the and improvement of their home
Large numbers of citizens expected join the
ton and with all walks Of life included movement for
betterrnent of the entire city will be successful
Join the association when asked you seen your
will be heartily welcome Don't stand upon ceremony
Get in the game.
haven't invested in the doughnuts before now
be sure to do So donfee like investing go to the
companys office and be served with doughnuts
You have until o'clock tonight It's for the service
of the Salvation Army, you know
In the United States the number of days of elementary
schooling child receives from 984 days days
according to the state where he resides Children
thrift stamp week of five school days during that
period would have from $495 $775 the end of the
period.
Now told that by 1924 tobacco will also be on the
prohibition list Well rate lot of fellows can roll up
lot Of pufs in the five that lefprovded he can
also dig up the prices
All the talk in Washington about Saving daylight will
nave no effect whatever the EARTH The old ball will keep
right on revolving around the at its regulation speed
whether we pow-wow or whether we bow-wow.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-08-18

riscale's latest picture at the Grand
tonight and tomorrow. Mother
Hawkins is admirably portrayed 10y
Anna Dodge, an actress who has
made an enviable reputation on the
legitimate stage in character parts.
The scene at Mother Hawkins" is
one Of therrichest. bits of comedy ever
thrown on the screen, and what. the
action doesn't register the titles will.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-08-18
ne Grand theatre Wednesday and

the Grand theatre Wednesday and
Thursday. .e2..,
Anita Stewart, one of the most
beautiful women of the screen is the
star. Ralph Ince was director. The
picture teens with heart interest, and
thrills. There is particularly grip
ping revelation of politics given in
the story. ..E
The Pathe. Weekly News and
Topics of the Day will also be
shown. ~ ~.~s-- = .sS
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-08-18
NEWSOFTH
THE.ATERS
HEARTS ASLEEP"

S.s A character that might have
stepped out of the pages Of Dickens
Ia .'"Sairy Camp" for instance, is
Mother Hawkins" the picturesque
Old, sinner who conducts fence
in the underworld, and whose place
is the resort Of second-story men and
yeggs in Hearts Asleep" Bessie Bar
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-08-18
THOROUGHLY FASCINATING

Charles Rays new photoplay, S.tThe
Girl Dodger," Thomas H. Ince-
Paramount picture, which will be
shown at the Elko theatre next
Wednesday and Thursday is clean
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-08-18

There Is something for you in the
Want Ad column today. It's on the
last page. II #
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-08-18
CAN ERASE PRISON PAST,

Can an innocent girl serve term
in prison, return to the outside world
and win back success and happiness?
How this can be done is. revealed in
the Vitagraph picture "Shadows of
the Past" which will be shown at
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-08-18
WHEAT ENEMY FIGHTS sTEALTHILY

The common barberry made the grains of Mime
sofas farmers this from hidden places The black
wheat appeared and the and state
agents working from University farm who have been carrying
campaign for the eradication of the barberry
plant which distributes the spores which the rus traced
of the infections of this to barbery plants
ing wild in the woods of the state.
Burberry scouts found this year than H. 900 plants
Of these $500 have been found the country and
ing wild Wild specimens of the barberry have been
found fifteen counties 1t believed that much of the
infection this from the barberry plants
an1bushed in the woods
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-08-18

cut entertainment from start to
finish. 1t has the ingredients of a
thoroughly fascinating tale.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-08-18
WHILE THE FIELDS DIE

There certain theorists who worrying about the
probable result allowing German labor provide for
devastated of France It behalf of
the French that they worrying. They say
"What will become of the French workingman?" they
1.-THE German workman must be kept alive he is
work in France he will have draw and the
workman will of job. If the Frenchman allowed
the work. then he could draw the but with
ployment transferred to others he will starve."
There slight fallacy in this argument If there was
only limited amount of work to be done in France might
plausible but the trouble in that country scarcity of
the jobs It is essentially agricultural country,
the fields of grain rong for lack of harvest
hands, Almost square foot which would produce
thing planted and the crops going to ruin.
If every and child lent hand in the fields,
the situation could not be saved this date And France must
keep large army provide human buwark against Ger
military ambition where the disqualification of the British
and American armies leaves the rampant unguarded.
The theorists need not worry about the French working
job He has all the job he needs for the next fifty
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-08-14

A recently designed electric light
ing and starting equipment for gaso-
line tractors includes a governor for
automatic engine speed control.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-08-14
Six Months
Adrift On
Ice Bergs
StefanSSOn Party Member on
Way to Join Chief for
More Adventure,

EDMONTON, Alberta, Aug.
l4-Storkcr 7. Stcrkerson who
passed SIX months adrlit on huge
ice ilor in the Arctic ocean, reach.
81 here last night, en- route 10
Banii. where, he said today, he
expected to report Saturday
NiIhjalmar StctanSson, his chiet
on observations made during his
unique cruise,
With fourteen compa1ons,
Stofkerson set out from Border
Island and IN May. 1913. selected
an ice iloe on whIch he purpos-
ed 10 remain for year or more
with the object OF determining the
currents. # any, in Beaufort s,a.
taking soundings and discovering
new land
After drifting four months
S,orkcr'on became i'll and on
October y 1913, the party, then in
latitude u, longitude ll7, west,
left the iloc. started its return to
the American continent arriving
at Cape Halkett, November 7.
StorkersGn IS incl ned to DciI We
owing TO certain rhenomena OBJ
served that land exists north OF
the point reached by his party ou
the ice foe
Keenan, Land. which is supposed
TO have been 'ound by Captain
Keenan,. was found TO be non-ex-
iStent.