Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-20
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and what she did l won't tell for fear
you'll weep with US. Goodbye till
next week.
GUssIE.
Gussie, 1 wish you would try
writing just one paragraph for me.
Some hot evening when you are sure
it couldn't possible be any hotter,
describe what you see and feel on
any one of the business streets that
you may pass on your way home. Re-
member that you are trying to put
over" the feeling of heat. You can't
do it by giving the temperature, or
by saying that you were never so hot
in your life. But you can convey the
impression by describing the way
people walked along the street, the
women sitting in the doorways on
the sidewalks in front of their
stores, the babies, and so on. Make
every word you write count toward
! the effect of HEAT. That will be sin
cere. Write about something that
you know about, that you know all
about, if possible. The more you
know about it, the more interesting
and the more convincing you can
make it. But do, please, write the
paragraph 1 want you TO write. L
am sure it will be good.
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An editorial in one of the good
New York papers recently had a
good deal to say about vacation read
ing, and the curious habit a good
many of us think we have to get IN
to of reading trash when the weather
is warm. The suggestion of the edi-
torial was that the vacation time
was a splendid time for US to spend
in THINKING. There's a good deal
to think about, you know. Great
idea, isn't it, to spend that vacation
on the big questions of the day
it doesn't hurt us girls any to use
our gray matter onc a year in think
ing about the question of the World
Court, the Preparations question, the
States Rights issue raised by the
Governor of New York, the allied
Prohibition question, etc. Just to
realize that there are big things to
think about is pretty healthy for us
all. And the more we think about
big things, the more u minds are
surprised int, growing! Stagnant
water, you know, is good only for
growing mosquitoes. Stagnant minds
in like manner. are good only fol
growing vicious ideas.
= . . =
Have any of you girls ever thought
of going to the Public Library for q
list of books that you would be GLAD
to read during the vacation? You
know the Public Library is Away:
glad to help people along to the
of the things that they would
enjoy, but don't know about. ASH
the librarian for the titles of some
good books to read during the sum
mer, and read them. Get out-of'
door stories, books of interesting ira
vel,-theTe r any number of them
land you will be pleased to fine
out that there is something readable
besides lurid novels. l recommend
especially books of travel, for vaca
tons don't often NEAR that we car
pack up our steamer trunks and q
whittier the wind (and our owl
fancy listeth. When we'd like t.
be sailing toward Norway, we mus
stay and wash dishes; and when w
would be speeding toward Alaska O
Japan, we must take u vacation
money for some expensive denta
work. So it goes. Here is jus
where the book of travel ZONES in
Tell the librarian you want some
thing readable about the Land of tn
Midnight Sun, or about Alaska, O.
Japan of the South Sea Isles, ant
when you have read it. and looked
at the pictures, behold! you will al
most have been there.
MARY G.