Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-04-20 | Page 20 | What Girls Read and Why

What Girls Read and Why I I 1 Copyright i ii 1313 l by 13 Tb The r s Co N acl acknowledged ed society leader on ona ona A AN a n. tour through the cast east side complained com com- that girls sirls especially business bust busi ness fleas girls do not read the right books She Sho said I 1 am afraid that these girls do not read the tho right kind of or books I have found many of them read Ibsen I 1 do donot donot o not approve e of or that Books of ot that kind make mako them unhappy anti and discontented Thc They become socialistic and instead of or thinking wealthy people their friends tho they grow to hate us While she may not fully realize tho the needs o of girls not in tho the swim of or so society society so- so In which she sho moves mOYes yet et there is some food for thought as to what hat girls should readA read A statistician has estimated that if the reading rending matter on the tho to today today today to- to day were placed on the streets of or New NewYork NewYork York people could not leave their doors Therefore in truth there is something something some some- thing to CHOOSE from While Ibsen may not come within tho scope of some seine growing girls yet et it Is 18 commendable to sa say the least that works o of writers of or that calibre ma may bo be found among amons- the girls on the east side I i visited the night schools on the cast cant side where man many girls who WilO are aro employed cm- cm during the day in business arc are trying to get gel some education t at their only leisure Hero Here I found round women Inthis in inthis inthis this country but out a a. short time readIng reading reading read read- ing Shakespeare UNDERSTANDINGLY though In er very ery broken English For ns as they r read ad the sentences were Interpreted Inter inter- properly I I shall never forget the tue look of or APPRECIATION AP AP- PREdATION that often orten dame came over I these girls girls' faces at some momentous e that tha t particularly PLEASED D or created a a. sense of COMPREHENSION CO SION in iii them This is certainly a step in the thc right ht direction So O that girls who would wouW read not ONLY O-LY for tor amusement must indeed come como cometo cometo comoto to earth carth as well and search for their mind food The Tho They will will not not find it within I Ithe the confines of ot the th best beat seller seHer but rather that literature which after along a a. along long period has been tried and anti not not- found wanting The main maln thin thing for the young youn woman oman toda today is not to read O ONE E KI KIND D of or thin thing It is quite natural that too much Ibsen MIGHT breed discontent Too much anything might have the same effect however Tho The idea la is to strike a VARIETY that will not only satisfy the Imagination but amu amuse c and instruct as well A little DISCRIMINATION In this direction dh by b every girt gir will result to her own Interest in interest In- In terest Think what and why win you read