The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-10-13

Questions gladly answered. Write
me In care Of the editor.)
theodore Parker says in his World
OF Matter and World of Men,: The
DOCKS which help you most are those
wn1cl make you think the most. The
hardest way OF learning Is by easy
reading; every man that tries it finds
1t so. But great book that comes IRON,
great thinker-it is a ship Of thought
deep and freighted with truth. with
beauty, too"
the schools are open again for the
winter, and there are the usual long
lists OF little boys and girls who are
unhappy and Inundated because they
did not do we'll enough to go on to
the next grade. Tie parents have In
many cases pleaded. bribed, scolded,
punished, or even paid some one to
tutor the poor little delinquent during
vacation. And the teachers have tried
both sarcasm and kindness, the Ounce
caps ignomity and hours after school.
1t Will all have to be done over again
and over and over, poor things. That
Is, unless the teachers and parents get
together on the basis of such work as
DIR. William r. p. Emerson has been
doing for some years, of which he tells
in his most helpful new volume on
Nutrition and Growth in Children"
(Appleton, $2.50) ALI his experience
as visiting physician for the children s
out-patient department of the Massa-
chusetts General Hospital, in charge
Of the nutrition clinic; as medical
adviser for the Elizabeth Mccormick
Memorial fund, Chicago; as president
of the Nutrition Clinic for Delicate
Children, Incorporated; and as profes.
sor of pediatrics at Tufts College,
leads him to believe the chief cause of
the troubles Of these poor little school
children is malnutrition, caused by
five things: Physical defects, especial
ly in the nose and throat Lack Of
home control; Overfatigue; Improper
.diet and faulty food habits and faulty
health habits.
"Tle requisites for good health in
the growing child are few" he says
good air, simple food, rest and the
proper exercise. II the causes of NAL
nutrition are removed, and these SIM
pie requisites for growth obtained, we
have what may be called the essentials
of health"
DR.. Emerson analyses the situation
in American homes and schools, tell
ing why these things have been so
largely overlooked, showing what has
been done through school and home
and hospital, and illustrating b.
charts and before and after photo
graphs Of children treated, the re-
markable results to be obtained by
proper attention to the five points
given above. 1t is book to bring new
hope to worried-parents, new light to
puzzled and distracted teachers. new
life to the children who need this par
ticular sort OF attention. l wisl every
Parent Teachers Association in This
United States could get the book and
read it; then see that thsrc is / copy
in every school and library. DR.. Emer-
son writes of Community Campaign,
OF which l will tell you another day.
Il can scarcely wait to read Rob
in, the sequal, appearing this fall, to
Frances Hodgson Burnetts fine novel
THE Head of the House of COombe."
(F'rederick Stokes, $2). Robin is the
lonely, unloved but wholly lovely little
daughter of beautiful, heartless, sell
fish and luxuryloving woman in fash
ionable London. Because of the
strange resemblance to the dead love
of his youth, Lord Coombe gives her
the protection of his wealth and sta
bility-without marriage-wnen her
house of cards goes to pieces, and as
sumes the unofficial guardianship OF
Robin. All this is background to the
development of that remarkable $50
lated small person into the very love-
ly young thing who, at sixteen, re-
news childhood love affair with
Donal Muir, Lord Coombes heir. The
end Of the book leaves them waltzlne
| ecstatically together at her first par
ty-and the great war about to burst
ON their heads. Do you wonder that
am impatient for the publisher to send
me the book which will complete the
tale?
Pirates and murder; love and re-
yenge and horror; and this sort OF
song:
There be two at the fore,
At the main hang three more;
Dead men that swing all in a row.
Here's fine, dainty meat
For the fishes to eat,
Black Bartlemy-Bartlemy, no."
These you will find in Jeffrey Far
nol's novel, Martin Conisby's Venge-
ance" little, Brown, $2) which he
has dedicated to the two gentle aunts.
NV father sat up until after in the
morning reading it, and mother had
to get up and put the light out before
ne would 60 to bed. l gave it to col
lege lad to read on a steamer journey
and so he fell in love with one of the
desperate characters dainty little
Spanish spit-fire of girl pirate-that
he refused to read the last fifteen
chapters after her death, declaring
.'She was a dandy. Tie author had no
right to kill her there" If your relig-
ious teaches that the horrors of the
Spanish inquisition were justified, you
had best not read those fifteen last
chapters yourself. The book is real
thriller and sort of sequel to BLACK
Bartelmy's Treasure" Other Of Far
Inors novels of adventure are "Beltane
the Smith, THE Amateur Gentleman
1.-THE Honorable Mr.. Tawnish". THE
Broad Highway, 1.-THE Definite OBJ
iect". "Our Admirable Betty, an6
mThe Geste of Duke Jocelyn."