Show ALL FLOCK TO SEE HOWELLS t I 1 rovella rovel lr used as aa a boomer for a new york library it tb ereIs Is any public library in new york that thai thinks itself just a little bit better than any other library it ft Is the one abat william dean howells visits every little nalle when in town why t we be proud said one black eyed attendant ile he Is such adear a dear and then he is a splendid draN Illg card there was aas a time oil oh months a ngi aca ca when the people in this neighborhood seemed to lose interest in the li biary well one day one of 0 tile the gills let it out accidentally lit in the hearing of 0 several subscribers that mr howells II had been in the library most of tile the ino ining and had just gone away about halt half an hour before tile the way lay everybody within earshot jot got interested was simply wonderful Us ile wast was gasped halt a dozen nomen momen does lie he come here often oh yes very often said that same gaii mendaciously because you see mr air howells IIo got into the habit babit ot of coming often then hut but he really did take to dropping in frequently after that and where he goes the crowd follows our list of subscribes bois soon swelled enormously people with a taste lasts for reading drop in at all hours when mr ll is ia at home hoping to find him here some limes they see him sometimes they dont but even it if they miss scein seeing him it Is something to be able to say that they belong to the same library where mr howells ll goes |