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Show children are best Library patrons report indicates j- j The children of Milford are better Readers than their elders. Such is the ponclusion to be draw from circulation figures appearing in the May library report submitted this week by Mrs. Freda Outzen, city librarian, j According to the report, 631 books ere borrowed from the Milford li-' li-' brary by children during the past month, while only 498 were borrowed by adults, the children reading almost two hundred books more than their 'elders. owever, the child taste runs to fiction as the non-fiction borrowed by the children was only one fifth the fiction, 102 against 529. In the case of the adults, the percentage for non-fiction non-fiction is higher, as one fourth of the fbooks borrowed were non-fiction, 103 against 395. The preponderance of juvenile readers read-ers over adult may be due to the leisure lei-sure given the children during summer sum-mer vacation, but whatever the explanation, ex-planation, it is a healthy sign. Though the children are outreading their elders, eld-ers, the adults reading in porportion to the population of the town is good. The total circulation for the month both for juvenile and adult fiction and non-fiction is 1129. Mrs. Outzen's report also lists thirty-one new books purchased by the library,, nine of them adult non-fiction, eight, adult fiction, six, juvenile non- fiction and eight juvenile fiction. The new books are: Adult non-fiction: Flags of the World, Life of an Ant, The Founding of Utah (Levi Edgar Ed-gar Young), Mary Baker Eddy, The Road to Culture, New Knowledge of Nutrition, Play the Game (Baseball), Emerson's Essays. Adult Fiction: The Road Back, Golden Tales of the old South, Oil, The Bridge of Desire, The Deepening Stream, Pure Gold, Wooden Swords, The Blacksmith of Vilno. Juvenile Non-fiction: Eskimo Stories, Stor-ies, Stickeen, Larry, Our Children, Moorland Mousie, Tales From the Crescent Moon. Juvenile Fiction: Teenie Weenie Land The Teenie Weenies, The Eagles Nest, Babs, Judy, Sonny Elephant, X-Bar-X Boys at Grizzly Pass, X-Bar-X Boys Lost in the Rockies. Eight new borrowers regitered at the library during the past month. |