The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1921-02-10

AAtHfni AiNAiuAiNts ilOucltlE nOuDic room
Donors
Mrs. R. s. Morehead, fiction .21
ANONYMOUS, fiction. 20
MISS Redus, fiction. n.........s4s............... z
Mrs. and Miss Jarratt, history, his
tory Of literature. e.......,................... 81
Mrs, w. l.. Allen, history ........... l6
Red Cross Chapter, social service. Ia
Mrs. Acker, history, fiction ............ 10
Miss Schillig, fiction, essays............ 9
Elizabeth Freeland, iuyinile books.
Mrs. A. b. Shreve, fiction. n..........-...... o
Mrs. p. H. Smith, poetry y..,...............
Miss Redus, Harper's and Scribner's
magazines .-...s-.....s.....4..-...,.....
Mrs. Aeker, magazines ................
G. II. A., making book shelves.
Literature and Art Committe Wo-
mans Club, four window shades
Mrs. r. 5. Morehead, two window
shades ..-............-..............
p. A. R, Chapter, two pictures........
Mrs. d. H. Smith, two jardimes, one
vase .---.....-.--....
Mrs J. M. Jones, coal............,...........
Mrs. ,. H. Morehead, lumber for
PLATFORM ...................
Loans Placed in Library
Woman's Club, three doz chairs,
oAA
Kings Daughters, two doz. chairs.
Misses Person, table, book shelves,
ming
The Librarian takes pleasure in re-
porting a most satisfactory years
work. The public interest in the IL
brary is greater, the library extension
work wider, the increasing need for
that extension more urgent than ever
before, We would like to icnrease our
circle Of readers to every person in /
town, to reach every school in the |
county, and from the schools, have
the books go to every home in the |
county.
We need yur interest and support
for that work.
The Library Board was lpepsed to
extend to the Woman's Club the in
to old the club meetings there.
The happy response has been the gem
erous help in furnishing the room and
making it attractive.
The annual Kings Daughters party
was held in the library this year, also
the first Of a series Of illustrated lee
lures presented by the Woman's Club,
and various organizations are holding
their meetings here. The library is
becoming community center.
The work Of the Librarian Is at home
through the week, with publishers and
book reviews, the pleasure Is on Sat
urday mornings when the books arc
coming in and eoinp out That is the \
ehildren's hour primarily, and they
come for Observation-Disclosures. "My n
lear book, was an exclamation heard II
not long ago, when Lady Jane" was
taken from the shelf for the fourth 1
time. A companion had been found
for all time, and the love Of books
rooted. Alfred Noyes Sherwood" is
another that nc has taken TO her
heart, and from the shelf many times.
Much public interest is being a.
reused BY the widespread publication
Of statistics showing an alarming
death rate, and an appalling number
Of undernourished children. We have
no statistics regarding the mental
death rate among children, but the
mental undernurishment is alarming
" high Mental health is as import
ant as bodily health. "A recent review
shows that over seven per cent Of our
people ten years Of age and over are 4
illiterate. Sixty million people in the
United States have no easy access to /
books. Sixty million people then, live I
outside the gates Of the land Of mag
nation, Of enchantment, Of incentive
to right doing and noble living 1
through stories Of men and women /
who have lived well, and acted nobly. (
That grown people should be depriv-
ed Of books Is bad enough, but that I
children should not have a chance to 1
learn to love books is worse. It is
through books that youth climbs. I
nWith a book for every mood-the (
old books that have fired the imagi-
nation, blazed the trails Of ones
dreams, and the new beauty Of the /
spirit Of the age, yet keeping Il within I
bounds-the child has heritoge that I
win make its future safe"
Could we give one gift to every I
child we should give the love Of books /
that would last through life-that (
would mean education-e education is I
life.
Respectfully submitted,
HARRIETTE A. PERSON,
Librarian.