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Show Children's Department At Library Gets 200 New Books Approximately 200 new books have been added to the children's department of the Washington County Library, states Mrs. Roxey Romney, librarian, and more are coming. These books were selected from the outstanding volumes on display at the""American Library convention held recently in Kansas City. With 68 exhibits on display and each display accompanied by book experts anxious to explain the merits of the different books, librarians had an unusual opportunity, oppor-tunity, explains Mrs. Romney, of seeing the best books before purchasing. pur-chasing. With so many new and excellent books to select from, every child in the county may now have access to a new world of information and fun. "The reading habit", states Mrs. Romney, "is unquestionably one of the most profitable any child can cultivate, and there is no better time than the carefree summer season sea-son for children to read the lore they love, and to learn to love reading. Not being driven to read and study for contests or lesson assignments, during the summer vacation, he may follow his desires for information and entertainment. "Since 'to choose a good book is to choose a good companion' this opportunity is given children to develop a taste for the interesting and desirable the lovely things of life. Good reading adds to the daily interest in life and fills one's mind with knowledge and wholesome whole-some information helping us to (Continued on page four) 'Children's Department At Library Gets 200 New Books (Continued from first page) rise above the little things of life and see the best in all that surrounds sur-rounds us. "At the close of school children often return their cards to the library desk and say 'Mama does not want me to read any more till school starts.' This would seem to be a mistake, since summer is the very time a child can enjoy reading most. The long hours will pass more happily for the child who reads and the opening of school will not come with such dread to the child who has kept up his reading interest during vacation. va-cation. "It is Clarence Day who says 'The World of Books is the most remarkable creation of man. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out. And after an era of darkness new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on still young still as fresh as the day they were written still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries cen-turies dead'." |