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I' ! r ti O0,I REVIEW J3JVERA BRADY SHIPMAN IS v ' 1 I 1- v- i Christmas. "ADVENTURES IN THE ' . OLD Radford Warren and n. J ?n8 a cnimren wm rerel niorL Pnhiiah v 7 ; m iae verses and: funny lit- anp1 b?0li6 ; s with ,bIS .heads and their colorful beau tyK the Canyon Kiddies roam and run In the pic tares. The book Is a rare bit of Tork City, Price, ,12.50. net- . ? The Old Woman In the Shoe ith her 11 children, Is the foun dation; for; this : croup of retold Mother Goose tales,: the woman had so many children she had to more and finally she came to a owa which had only three child renv , Tney,wlcomed her with her Brood and fare her the huge shoe o lire in. Each eTenln at the supper table the , Old , Woman ior her husband (who was kept busy making enough money to support these children would tell stories .until bedtime.. 1 With charming illustrations, part of them in color, bir Charles Fed erer, , tali beauUful gift book f ix a lorelT srlft for uny well costumed bodies. Little boys and girls will enjoy this as a Santa Clans gift. lores fjLlr fM-l. A tL- tare discontented, who are enlisr-rarrvin ifAtt... n. ,Ing. 'I don't know what to do JUU-SOAIETHIiVO," b- y Blanche E. Wa. Published ; by the Page Co., Boston. Mass. Price 1 1.75 'net. -US- 5 V; An imaginative story , for: chil dren of the hip ."Busy Bee" stranded, on ' the reef of "Donl Know What To Db.'V with the fairy elf. "Mr. Do-Something" coming to the i rescue, taking them to the Thinking Cap Castle. They follow the little knome and Tiait far a way cellars, hidden treasure, ; wide . broad open road and' queer secret places. It is a splendid lesson to children who discontented, who are whin- stories farther onJ '-u ' , Last year, these same writers coyahoyated in ."Tales Told by The Gander.". It was" this same beautiful edition and has been so popular that this year's book fol lows the. aanie general lines. Any child whether old enough toi read for htassir.or.fce read Jo, will enjoy these very human tales of Mother Goose farther on, - - ' The story is -written' in an enter taintng style and the child will as similate its meaning; without real izing a moral targht. 1 "SANDY X.ND ; HER f ANIMAL PALS,-., by Frank Thompson. ' published . by .the , Stratford ' Press,' Boston Mass! . A delightful story of a . little tirl,. for children who lore and are kind to animals. ; She has two kitties and a fox terrior dog and her good .times ,withi thorny the tricks they do, and the places they go. forms a book of Interesting child's stories i My little girl r en joyed erery page. 8he felt; that f 3ewiy she -was ;klndi. of trzknir" with her owa; dog' and r "l cats.'-' Such a story 'is always welcomed Into t : my . ; library. It I.eljs us to teach those about us to love animals." "CANYON COUNTRYf KIDDIES,". ' ty James Swinnerton, Publish 1 el ty Doubled Page & Co. i Garden City, New York. Price ' tt net. ' A book of exceeding charm for Teryr wee 'folk ft t!a little-book ct tbJ rtn'i f tunnies little fat UIaa -TGirsoliesv with their lit tle fat dogs and, wild, animals with great 'rolling eyes and fa little ,,tu?aEi!es.,?-"The cenes -are laid "RILEYS FAIRY TALES"-Pub lished by Bobbs Merrill Co., In . .dianapolis. cc: s; j - - j The beloved poems br James Whitcomb Riley, the fairy tales in yerses which, have made children happy for so mony years, are pub lished In, this beautiful gift book edition, illustrated in color by Will Wawter. There are the Pixie People. Jack the Giant Kill er, a little rlrl telllne the storr of Red Riding Hood, the Nine Little Goblins, and oh. just a lot of oth ers which the 'children lore. f J Rileys Terse is inimitable. ' He never grows old. lr vi.;- ' -.!' i Picture, the simple joy; the ar dent devotion of the child' mind to a, poet who begins in the poem thus,. s xs:: k:1 , 'V?' : : 'r "When I wux 1st. a llttke bit o , i V weenie teenty kid - :;i ; ? i I : maked up a Fairytale, all by . myself I dldr " f : and then the tale commences. '' " Riler sings . to the heart of . a child,. his. poems are .readable di alect, always singing, always genuine- affection. Such a book is a worthly; addition to ' your ' childs library. Along with Eugene Field the Riley soemi are most renra- eentative of chlldlif e of, America in Its genuine' slmpUcIty.: " ih- lished i byvDttle Brown A CoV, Boston. Price $1.50 neU-".-A new collection of twice told tales. Is the' seasons offering - of Burgess booksil - Buster ' Bear.: Is always aIaTorlttf to the f little' reading f oik.- Het U . so folksy, so cl u msjr and so lovable, thebear is a huge hulk of sympathetic joy in the" Green Forest." You can 'go with Petgr Rabbit lipperty-lip. you can hunt, you; can hide, you can watch "for enemies," you : can seek food .with : the ; forest Inhabitants, you can . ask your questions of Old Mother Nature and the West Wind will help you in your diffi culty. AH these are , children's friends In nature made so real Burgess. He ' knows the woods and he knows the child, a rare combination for often one or the other is slighted in woodlore. His animal folk are' living things with Ifees, -antipathies,, and desires as folks' hare: his knowledge of. just what to say to the child , to instill love of animals, and overcome de sire to kill, is what makes Burgess the writer he is today. : His books are always authentic natural his tories made so entertaining by, his personal style that grown folk can be equally enlightened. : - . 7 I Imagine a summer home in the North Wisconsin woods : a new animal is seen or brought home for the first time. Where do we find our information regarding the animal, its haunts and Its hab its why from Burgess Animal Book or his various stories of ani mal life in the forest.""' Tbat is a test. ' He is endorsed by scholars of natural history. "He is unchal- lenged; for the public knows that a!new books, of nature stories by Burgees is authentic, . before it goes to the press. parents and the teachers place to use,. these: fine . bits, of material, to spread" their " service- out4' over the whole yeaiv-io" stimulate in the child 'the love of good books. i - . " ..... - " THE COOK'S SURPRISE," by Margery Clark, published:: by Doubleday Page & Co.; Carder. City, New York. . . I A tiny book for the tiny folk about a little girl Jrfhe Small who ate if.' all. - It pictures. Jane and introduces Jane as somebody else and Jane as somebody else, but always Janes who do the vari ous, things regarding . the cake. But through it all Jane Small ate it all. It Is illustrated by Madge Anderson in cunning line 'drawings: i - "AMERICAN NIGHTS ENTER 1 TAiNMENTrsiQraht i Pver ; ton. Published jointly in the r interests of Doran, Scribners, f Doubleday Page and Appleton I Companies. . Published at the i nominal price of 50 cents.' This book while srtlctly an ad vertising venture, it Is as good as any , 1 2 book on , the counters to day. Its selling prive will un doubtedly pay the price of the pa per it consumes. k Mr. Overton Is a man of rare ability, a writer and a summariz- er, a publicist and a literateur, he gleans the best from the best books and 'writes of theme In an advertising volume which Is gen erally conceded to be literary gem'. He not only writes of his own Doran publications, hut also Appleton. Doubleday .'.'Page and Scribners. The writers concerned are Galsworthy! Conrad, Arthur Train, Joseph , Lincoln,' . Edith Wharton. Sackvllle-West,'; Harold Bell : Wright;: Booth Tarkington, Donald Ogden Stewart, and Chris topher Morley each with his per sonality and his work. The book Hs-selllng as strictly an advertis- tising issue but is far superior to manyaot the new books foisted on the reading public in, the name of novels of, this year as well as others. You find . yourself enjoy ing; how Arthur Train happened to write the delightful Mr, Tutt stories ..of a. craftly old lawyer, the marvelous box office value of Harold " Bell Wright and ' tbe sea worthy beginnlng.ofi Joseph Con rad.' ; .The whole book Is a Joy to readers, and will probably be rc membered longer, than many of its contemporary writings. ' ' 1 "BUSTER BEARS TWINS," by W Thornton ,W.- Burgess. Pub Children's Book' week .has come. and gone" but Christmas is ahead and the child "library is ' the" most essential belonging of the child. The beautiful ' posters put out ,by the American Library association which you saw in bookshop Win dows, the Jessie Wilcox Smith pos ter of children reading, and the Harvey Dunn Poster of the labor ed various helpful guides for building 1 childrens ., bookshelves, have all been sent gratis by the association ; for. merely .'writing ykur .request. , And tiowit- isVthe i i (By e. w.);.- -f-T', ;'', "BUTTERFLY," by Kathlyn Nor ris. published . by Doubleday "t Page & Co., Garden City. New York. Price S2 net. I Kathlyn Norris has again writ ten a story of sisters which holds the interest and sympathies of her readers. . .. .- I Dora, or "'Butterfly' but four at her mother's death and 11 at her fathers'; was left to the guidance ahd protection of her sister; Hil ary, five years her Ben ior. The girls struggled and sacrificed that Butterfly the talented younger sis ter could study1 music ' abroad. Konrad Kronski, the great violin ist, has promised to take her for a pupil. But as the ; sisters were Just' about to realize their great purpose,' butterfly fell in love with a, man of great wealth. She for got ambitions abandoned her pur pose and married Craig Spauldlng. j For a few years she lived in a Whirl " of ' elcitement.r fashionable dinners,' teas, theaters, and a life full ; of regrets Finally she found the realway to happiness. . C Kathlyn I Nor ris emphasizes through Butterfly - that' pleasure IsnT:eTryttlng;cThe Jpeople,; llyf ing for pleasure alone are restless discontented end artlficiar. They do not find happiness. " Happiness . is to; be - found in the r simple things.,"'';. i--' j. r o J ' , i n j ; Z These lines run , through the book in many, unlooked for plac esa minor theme' of the story: Cross patch,; draw the latch', ' .Sit hT tha flra ni anfn ' Take a cup, drink it up, and call the neighbors In!" "ON AUTUMN TRAILS." by Em ma Lindsay. Squier.. Published by the Cosmopolitan Book Cor- . poraiion. New York City. Priee IJ.00. 't ' .--. -.f , ; Oregon can partly claim this TW ol. wood lore,, tor Emma iaaaay-oquier spent per , child hood ifl the, wrjderness country pf Puget Sound and lived in Oregon for aonie yeais '.JS3x writes of the deer and her. fawn, of the porcu pine,, of the bear, of the- animals Of the Wild TM kht'iiiimH iv,l. caUs in their, own language: Last yea after .hef "Wild Heart", ser ies made- such a success, the Cos mopolitan people sent her to N6va Scotia to. get new material for series. 'And "On Autumn Tratli" id , the resultj of this trip. ' The secoxid, half: of .the book Is. stor ies of the' animals in the MottAn picture' aoo at Hpliywood, ' At the ume. or tneir writing; Emma Llnd-say-r'SquIer. was' working on a Laa Angeles newspaper; and herj press cpniact gave:jner ready access to the too andr its' strange attendant stories'. r She-r knows , the . animals W tneir simplicity. - HeF. stores are obarming' in i..nature . loving beauty. - There are Indian tales of the origin of many birds and anbnal .habits. . There, is the por cupine who sat in the tree and ate ah t apple, there .1; they baby; lpn and baby coU.le who were devoted friends, The whole book is as de lightful as its' forftrnnnnr "TTi Wdd Heart" and Oregon literary iojx may claim her as partly their own.. it-; Tulsa i)igh Sohool Systerp Afds All Boys in Athletics i TULSA; Okla... Dec. 1. A hew order of athletic; providing team competition f:fo:reyeryf boyQand with less emphasis r, ,m k winning squads for inter-schdlastlo games, is the. rule in Central High school here. oner of X thai largest ,.) hi-1 schools In the world, under Ath letic uirector, Bw. Ran. ft j j Ran' methods, and his ' system of 'student, classification, have at tracted wide attention:-V A; formula . for grouolng .bora aecottllmg-tOttehr-phyrteal .prow-s ess. regardless of clafcs : room standing.-assures , equalled com petition with a chance for every participant, x r V; . t The; students are classified ; by this mathematical "equatldn four times the ; age, plus, half - the weight." plus the height, expressed In; Inches,- which gives the Index number. ..i. C73' . . New students are classified and assigned to 1 their ; proper : gToup, usually eight in number. Each group Is In charge of a trained professional coach.'' In , addition to the sports usually found, in high schools, Rau has regular teams . in boxing, wrestling, tennis, swim ming and volleyball. ; The .school has eight regular football teams; 1 6 basketball squads; i 1 track teams; six baseball teams, and sev eral tennis groups. More than. 1500 boys already are on teams, against .Jess than 100 prior to the Inauguration of the present plan. Interclass football this year brought out 245 players. Spence Forgot to Turn -r In Expense Statement When C E. Spence, state market agent, left to attend the national Grange convention rat.y Pittsburg? Pa . he forgot to submit to th secretary of state a. statement cov ering his expehsesjn-campainisg for. the state income tax;, bill, according-to abetter written. Secre tary; Kozer by Mr. Speqce. Ac companying thd letteris his state ment showing an expenditure of $26.50, of which $25.went toward paying for the affirmative argu ment In the voters' pamphlet and Si.50 went to pay for gasoline for a Ford car. . V A realtor, is , anprdinary man except that he thinks of cow pas tures in terms iOf auburb -- r. ' .1 ...! 1 - t Read Our ' Ly.i i 1 n t thi j , -f -i T'-' a f - ,!-... t ! ..'il.fi. :; ;t 0) .... - i - i "-" i t . . ' a Ad in luesdav ivil u MD - jrap oinins is (j : ! er 373-77 Court Street 'We SeU For Ledi" -pTT ' ' ' I - ' : ' ' ' !..'-;'- y.-j,ii i...r ,;,.... . ... ...-.... ... ,v ,,,, , . . ' 1 ' ... ..r i i a . . S a V..i v I 5 I N,i;, rpceit address delivered , before the, ew .York, Elec trical League, Mr;,Jbhn Vf. Iieb, Viceesiit cjf: The . New Ybrk Edison Conipaiiy, presehteb!;f.the.ioUowing: fig?" iiiresaiid statements showing the . tremendous ;maitujd&'duUxe;E3ectrie. Light, and jFotiety Industry iri the United l States, the essential characterf of the service, this industry renders to the .American" public, arid the vital rieed that reflation of the : iri dustry should be : bf a broad Irarid equitable character; Mr. Lieb saidiri parlr f : t r is tjndoubtedly vinfhienced by many factors, thk in crease in the application; of mechanical power as a suV stitnte for. mahn.al labor is; unddnbtedly a cattse of the rapidly increasing wealth of theconntixand the eman4 cipation of workers from drudgery and heavy labor. Largely through supply, of adequate power deftly ap: plied by American genius will this country, in the com ing years, be able to hold her Reading place in the markets of the world and still maintain for its workers the 'high plane of American living conditions,. AM E R I CA LE A DS T HE WORCD IN ELECTRICALLY LIGHTED HOlviES ... ... VAX': present nearly one-third of, our. industries are supplied with power by central electric jower stations. f The total -number of consumers for lighting and power exceeded, ten million iri 1922; Gas was supplied m 1921 to more than nine million consumers.: The street .Tail' ; ' ways in 1922 carried more than fifteen billion passen gers. Here are a few significant public utilitystatis tics: The total capital invested in J1922 (including gas companies) exceeded . fifteen billions o. dollars; the total kilowatt capacity cf, dynamost in, centraitectriq stations and, electric .railway, stations exceeded fifteen million kilowatts ; the . output! of these stations "waji forty-six billion. kilowatt-hours , and the number of em ployees was estimated at five hundred and twenty-five thousand... . ! 1 ' " "' -; wVf.;f : . ;;;:;:;:;: t "The magnitude of the public utilities may be real, isred by comparing their fiueeri-billiori-dollar 'capitali'. V ration with the valuation of all the Qlass.J railroads of 1 the United States, estimated at approximately twenty billion dollars. - v : s , M f. r ' - ' ' 1.-. r - '-. . s ; - V . ' , I ' : ' ' A comparison; through a reasonably stable period, . of the average horsepower. available per workman and ; his increased productiveness shows that in "1899 the horsepower sper ;worker was 2.12 as against 3 JO in 1914, while in the former years the annual value, added ; . to products per - wage worker was i $i;025;v as' against $1,404 in the latter. Though the output per workman ' In order that their, fulj yalue may. become avail abU to the nation; great systems covering large areas ana supplying great. loads -wiU .be. necessaty. . To ae- complish this purpose, the utilities must oohtiniUlly' ex pand, ever, developing larger. and more extended sys tems. .This . development . is one. .of , state-wide imporV tancc and such public: regulation as.is needed should of, a .state-wide character; . Systema of . this kind f already melude scores and hundreds of munacipalities ? within; their transmission areas, ;bvit ttiey necessarily r. -niust beoperated as a unit, fit is impossible for tfiem to develop or give good service, to ; the public if .they are! subject to the harassing interference of all; of the municipal or .minorpolitical establishments throiieh 1 Z h yjy extend and in , which .they; operated Nor will such a consummation as ihej puttie Vlesires and thejcompanies wish to provide be possible nnless state, tntroeS?tl0"iilatboard equitable character is maintained and the laws and rulings . fioverninsr the n !trMa ?'lpm and' tble ehaia?terndw?h ?Citth-e 1&THAot capital which are nee essary to obtain each yeas to provide for the ranid extension of the public utilities & order theSal ' X hC PUWlC ade1Uate1 "ently and econoS I 7$ )arse-scale financing of enterprise ; tan ,bei successfully; continuedon y: wh nfi. dence existain the character :aM aJbU ofSe menwho are managing, that enrpr si grpwth, effective service and brosberitv nf thl sured only while the men who have made r industry tarperinitted; and ehcburS to continue in its.management. .r. 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