Show If iR Vhal Youngsters Reading Ire N Now w L After ft r all H It is JS VIjo th the youngsters O V history New ew orK tor lor stance Is fairly fairi soaked history nd d cUte the average New ew ew Yorker Worker knows Ie or le-or r nothing al out it But the oils idols are taKing tatting care that tho the thong runs Jug generation shall know it d so one discovers are juvenile ion writers A Vi ith very ery credit credit- for the most part as to and a lively Imagination to the possibility of childrens children's In m great deeds and his his- c e. e moments t they tIey ey are really thing hug our young people a lot lote loti e i than we know ourselves about past of given localities Thid Thi of history for children n interesting and would seem a thing it parallels the ats that are being made all over countr country by local historical soles so- so les wether les-wether wether consciously or un- un we e do not know Fut ut we invite any an grownup to k som one questions about the books bools le are reading We should CM ms t that at least a of them t based and quite soundly based on history and much of that is tory Story localized ih Tb starting point of this m on on young folks and history was outpouring from a young friend passing through New Yorks York's Village concerning the ly history of a house that stood e a on en a corner of the queer crosset crossI cross- cross I et ct whose name is Prince east Sullivan street and Charlton Chariton to t West Sest of that teeming teeming- north and th hi n thoroughfare As it happened were ere able to check up all that said aw from a a a. recent meeting of j cai eal historical society to place a et et t commemorating the facts 1 ut t which she told with so much and dramatic elaboration her from what she had Jn Oh a book boo 1 ead Augusta Huiell Seamans Seaman's The e Sap re Signet we found r t had so 80 impressed historical f Upon upon her mind and we also Pd nd outright there thera what was coned con- con ped ed by later investigation that investigation that goo good part of the idle fiction a which our boys and girls redoing I ls Is fairly airly accurate ana ann ex- ex remely vivid history dramatized Ith considerable skill |