Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-08
CAPTER xIX.-Continued.

Miles continuously 6 anced back at
the church door. Jackson Elder did
not appear. The door did not once
open after the awkward entrance of
the first guests. Miles's hand closed
on Bea's arm.
his shanty over into a cottage with
white curtains and a canary and a
chintz chair. ,e
Carol coaxed the powerful matrons
to call IN Bea. They half scoffed.
half promised to, go
Bea's was the oldish,
broad. Oscarina, who was suspicious
OF her frivolous mistress for a month,
SO that Juanita Haydock was able
to crow, There, smarty, I odd you
you'd run into the Domestic rob
lem!" But OscariEa adopted Carol
as a daughter, and with her as faith
rul to the kitchen as Bea had been
there was nothing changed in Carols
life.
III.
h was Unexpectedly appointed to
the town library-board by Ole Jen-
son, the new mayor. The other men,
bers were DR.. Westlake, Lyman Cass,
julius Flickerbaugh the attorney Guy
Pollock, and Martin Mahoney, former
Hvery-stable. keeper and now owner
of a garage. She was delighted. She
went to the first meeting rather CON
descendingly, regarding herself as the
only one besides Guy who knew my
thing about books or library methods,
She was planning to revolutionize the
whole system.
Her condescension was ruined and
her humility w~holesomely increased
when h found the board. in the
shabby IN the second floor OF
the h0YfQa which had hoor oD~->.k.s
into the library, not discussing the
weather and longing to play check
ers. but talking about books. She
discovered that amiable old DR.. West
lake read everything IN verse and
light %fiction"; that Lyman Cass, the
veal-faced, bristly- bearded owner OF
the mill. had tramped through Glib
bon. Hume, Grote, Prescott and the
other thick historians: that he could
When DR.. Westlake whispered to her.
Eyes, Lynn is a very well-informed
man. but he's modest about it, she
felt uniformed and immodest, and
scoldei at herself that she had miss
ed the human potentialities in this
vast Gopher Prairie. When DR.. West
lake quoted the Paradise Don
Quixote," wilhelm Meister,' and
the Koran, she reflected that no one
she knew. not even her father, had
read all four.
Z tShe0cAine %diffidehtly to the second
meeting" OF the board. She. did mot
reyolntdonize anything. She
hoped that the wise elders might be
80 tolerant as to. listen to her sug-
gestions about changing the shelving
OF the Juveniles.
, Yet after four sessions of the H.
brary-board she was where she had
been before the first session. She
had found that for all their pride in
being reading men. Westlake and
Cass and ever Guy had no conception
Of making the library familiar to the
whole town. They used II, they
passed resolutiona about 1t, and they
left II AZ dead as Noses. Only the
Henty books and the Elsie books and
the latest optimims by moral female
noyelists and virile clergymen were
in general demand, and the board
themselves were Interested only In
old, stilted volumes. They had no
tenderness for the noisiness OF youth
discovering great literature.
II she was egotistic about her tiny
lea rning, they werc at least as mich
10 regarding theirs. And for all their
talk OF the need OF additional library
tax none OF them Was willing I o risk
cansufe By battling for 1t, though
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