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Show A City Club Room. Logan needs a library and reading room. Each of tho Colleges have one but they do not fill the requirements. What wc need Is a nice comfortable room as near the business center of town as It Is possible to get It, where peoplo can diop In and spend an hour or two reading tho papcis or perusing tho latest magazines. Wc have a good many joung people and old peoplo also for that matter, whose home surroundings are not as pleasant pleas-ant as they might be, and they seek pleasure elsewhere. Many of the young men como up town and drift into the saloons and billlaid halls and como In contact with the Influences and associations of those who frequent lesorts of that kind. Young ladles cannot with pioprlety seek diversion In saloons but will spend moie time on tho street that is profitable for their good. Thero Is another class oj! pcoplo that might bo considered In this connection. Wc refer now to those who are tied at homo all day with routine duties, and to whom a little exercise and mingling w lth mankind man-kind would come as a welcome diversion. diver-sion. To these peoplo an hour at a leading room or club would come as a welcome lclicf as an oasis In tho monotony of dally life. An oidlnaiy reading room would hardly answer theso lcquliomcnts; wo would want to go a little further, just what we would ncetl wo could not say but It seems to us we could follow the lead of the Young Men's Christian Association with profit. wc vrsrTKn ono of their associations recently in an eastern city about tho slo of Logan and weio surprised and pleased at what w o saw. There was a nicely airanged leading room furnished with chairs and tables and supplied with books, magazines and papers; adjoining this was another an-other room supplied with chess and checker boards and a ariety of other games. Adjoining this again was a pool room with two pool tables. In another loom was a bath tub and barber shop; another was litted upas a gymnasium. In another room was a piano whero those who loved music could spend an hour of an evening listening to tho best talent tho town could alloid. Wo wore told that tho rooms wero kept up by tho association partly by voluntary contribution and partly by monthly dues paid by tho members. The amount of the dues wero arranged according to the benefits bene-fits dcilved. For Instance fifty cents a week entitled a pcison to ono shavo and one bath. If a peison wished the advantages of tho bath room only, the feo was less. Admission to tho leading lead-ing loom was fiec. Fifty cents a quarter entitled a peison to take ono book a week from the library. Two nights a week tho association gave a sort of conceit In tho music loom. Wo weio Informed that tho club had become so popular In tho town that a nice little sum was left over after all expenses weio paid, which was spent in purchasing new books. A SUOUKSTlON. Now some such organization as that, It seems to us, Is what wo need. Of course It would take time to work It up, but It can be done. It would seem tons that the Mutual Improvement organizations throughout tho city aro tho proper pcoplo to take hold of this matter. Tho looms In tho second story of tho tithing olllco building would bo very suitable and would cost but little. Nearly every mutual In the city has a small library that aro doing Httlo good where they aro trow. These could bo collected and form tho nucleus for a library. Tho newspapers news-papers in towrr can furnish papers and magazines from their exrham;c3. So that a commencement could bo made without a very great outlay. |