Evening star., 1921-07-24

times buy the Decameron or Marguerite
de Navarro at one Of these stalls. The
| Iphycho-analysis section Is. of course.
immensely popular nowadays with young
and old. In England not long ago
policeman let man go on condition
| that he would dictate his urges for the
policeman's private manuscript that he
! was hoping to have printed after ne re.
bookstall an interesting coterie was
gathered with o-worshiping visagss
before the works of the sprightly Freud
and the vicious Brill, not to mention
the exhilarating Forel and other sugar
mare school Of thought" Among the
group Of readers l noted pair OF
swashbuckler college girls with that de-
termined we-have-the- e-vote expression
that can only be overcome by honey
ment and the judicious throwing OF the
domestic fiatiron: a bald young man
in glasses, a middle aged woman who
\ was either a lecturer on eugenics' or a
representative of an uplift society. and
high school boy who wore the un-
easy glance of one who is borrowing
Watermelons by moonlight
How pleased the authors would be II
| they could visit few thousand book
stalls and see how deeply appreciated
| merged tenth, Let no one say that
science IS not popular with the classes
and the masses: Humanity loves to at
tend criminal trial or read a few hum
dred pages of clinical gossip. Even the
supreme ChesteftoH acknowledged that
to understand the American conscious
ness one has to reach the newspaper ac
counts of murders and the detective
tales of Anna Katherine Green and
Company. But from Chesterton's stand
worthy as the people who are looking
/ at it.
One of the clerks had the appearance
of disappointed embonpoint Don Juan.
What a bore it must be to him to be
selling Electro Therapeutics for the
Front Piazza Aunt Annie's Nanny
Goat" and ''The Life Of Eddie Marco
stead Of canoeing along the canal In
company with q ukulele that he had
won at Glen Echo and young lady
that he had brought along, especially.
| * y
| A WEAKENED little girl. with an
elfn face, came in with her large
mother. Piped the dwarf from behind
the huge spectacles with their brown
rims. "Have you the Eeny Weeny
Series for Dear Darling Daughters"'-
mo. my pet" responded a CHEEKY
woman clerk, they're all sold. but We
still have few Of the Mumpsey Wump-
sey Books. They're lovely. Madam.
and keep a child SO girlish. This here
Is a BashkirtseH thing that I was
getting ready for the mail that was
written by a little girl they say. but
good land, you wouldn't think SO if
you read it! You can tell right away
that she was foreigner. ! never met
any one like that when was a girl in
Kansas. Perhaps. though, It's the
translation that makes the diary sound
SO queer. The Cornucopia Stories are
nice for the little ones, but they're not
read SO much an they might bes Some
how, so many youngsters substitute the
movies.'
"Tm very careful about my chill
dren." commented the visitor. 'Thsy
are not allowed to 60 more than three
times . week, and have trained them
to close their eyes II anything dreadful
is shown"
Congratulations. I hope it works."
dryiy responded the saleslady. II must
acknowledge that my little CiaRence is
q movie fan. Two tried to break him
Of the habit, but he will go to the
movies and bite his nails. and, / must
say that he is healthy child. But 1t
lreally ia hard 10 tell AtoEisS to n child