| Show literature FOR ALL MOODS that Is I 1 what librarians are expected to select for their Exa elating ting patrons infinite are the requirements and profound tho judgment 0 of librarians the other day a little girl who does the family marketing rushed into a branch library with the announcement that the sewing society was going to meet ineat at her mothers house bouse that afternoon and the librarian please send around a book suitable for the elocutionists of the circle to read alcad the others worked the young woman appealed to sent the sequel to a particularly charming story that had beguiled the tedium of that same circle on a previous afternoon in a short while the little girl returned the book ma says this aint the kind of 0 A story flory they need today she said they aint on baby clothes and today darn in mens s socks and shirts shifts and they want something suitable there was a consultation of librarians just what kind of at literature would fit the mental attitude of women engaged in darning socks and mending was waa a question hitherto un considered they decided on a wo mans rights pamphlet called the eternal warfare apparently it suited for the child did not bring it back |
