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Show OLD HEROES' CHARM NO MORE Deerfoot, Thaddeus of Warsaw and Others Seem to Be Forgotten by the Youth of Today. A group of American schoolboys visiting England were taken to Rugby Rug-by to gather impressions. The English Eng-lish masters, fearful that the boys, instead of using their eyes, would carry away just the impression they had brought an impression, of course, left by reading "Tom Brown's School Days" made eager inquiries, which brought to light the fact that not one of the hundred boys had ever read the schoolboy classic. .Nor was that the worst. Few of the English boys attending the school had read the book, either. A recent investigation investi-gation in an American city revealed the astounding fact that the charm of Dead w ood Dick and other rugged western types begins to pall on Young America decidedly early. It would scarcely surprise one to hear that Deerfoot no longer casts his potent spell, that Thatlde:;-s of Warsaw is unknown, that the brisk and self-reliant heroes of Alger, Optic Op-tic and Henty are no longer brisk enough, and that Tom Sawyer himself him-self is out of date. What do the youngsters read Dowadays? Have they become addicted to treatises on population, exposures of graft, articles ar-ticles on scientific management, arguments ar-guments for the suffrage and proposals pro-posals to let the people rule? It may be that the cradles and the nurseries if the present are sheltering brains o eager and active that the best thing we grownups can do is to relegate rele-gate ourselves promptly to the shelf. |