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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 18 Jun 1931, p. 36

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Remember Books when you plan your summer. New or Useci Copies of the Current Literature Our 'Rentai, Plao is Easy.. 1724 Orrington Avenue EVANSTON Orrfngom Motl ifdg. RUN>DOWN TEDFOLKS Find New Way Ends Usé of Neediess Druga and, Habit.Forming Catharties mAIL-LIONS who now suffer from weaken- iV ng poisons in the biood-peopic who are run-down and tircd, who sufer with bad skias and'duil eyc-are aniazed at a new heailh discovery which is restoring heaith and good looks. Doctors are now prescribing what tbey call a "kidney laxative"- a won- derful discovery which reaches the deep- seatcd poisons ini the blood. Ordiwary drugs, laxatives or cathartics cannot reach these poisons. The poisonous acid wastes must b.' driven out thr-ough. the kidneys. Ai revisei eclton of the ever poptilar "Moonstone". by Wiikie Collinis, was published the first .of june by Harper and Brothers. Wýheni the'author wrote thiis mystery story sixty-three years ago it ran in. serial formft in Harper's Weekly. ' It was subsequently: brought,,,ut. in boo0k forni and during the intervening years has cibntinued te be onie of the best as weii as the 'Most l)oPular mystery stories. ever printed. The publishiers, ini this- revised edition, have omitted ma .ny. passages that slowed. up the action of the story but have had no direct. bearinig on the plot. Briefly the plot is as foilows a valuable dianîond is left to a young English girl, by bier uncle. !Franklin Blake., the girl's cou sin, is initrusted. with the deiivering ofthe' jewel to lier but, on the evening that it isto be. presented it, disappears froni its resting place in the cabinet. AUl in- viestigations on the part oi the fani- ily and a noted detective -prove futile. With the. suicide of a defornmed serv- ant ;girl, who is in love with Frank1- lin Blake, and a quarrel with the young lady with whom Blake is ini love, the .search is abandoned. The1 girl refuses to speak to Blake for reasons thiat are unknown te bui, se hie leaves England te forget lier. But at the end of a year hie returns and tbe mystery is Iogically and ini an unexpected manner solved througb a note froni the dead servant girl, thet heip of a doctor and'his experimientsi in deliriumi, a detailed reenactnient1 o n g il K n 0 R R D. KTO XVW White By EzraPournd A, literai -or free (as the case ma,% be) translation of this poeen mav be said toI go 'thusiy: "WVhite, limp, droop up through punik b red, red tu %vhite." The outiine of the poem, if you please, represents a flower: blos- son,. steni, the good erh and the reots. of the night of the theft, anid the trailing of a group of ôdd cliaracters through London's wharf district., The story is. told by eight groin- inent characters 'as a record and then e ach one tells ' only> tlat part to which hie or she wvas an actual. eye- witness. Thie different parts are re- markabiv dovëtailed and such ailini- tricate plot could only be handied 1)v a very skillful writer. The storY makes excellent suinnmer readung, and is just the one that you. want to.takè on your vàcation. BOOK CONTEST "Do You Know Your Books" is the narne of a contest now being con- ducted by the Doubiedav Dorai Books shoPs throughout the Coup- try. -For the -most ncariy correct answvers...to a iist of. twenty-eighit questions about. r ecent b)ooks an d a fifty word review of Pone of -the books uncluded iii the answer thle first ýprize will be $50,worth ' of books.- Otheir prizes are $25, $10, $5, and $2 in, books of the publisher's selection. or fuil particulars sec bteefloublcdav Doran Book shop ini Mandel brothers store. cussed ny H. tAuuîngton l»ruce in thé September 1930 issue of *Child Wel- fare" in an, article bearung the titie, "As School Begins." The folio wIung. paragrapis, are quoted f rom tluis ar- ticle: *'Cliidren, and teachers, alike are now ini proczess of readjusting tîjen-: selves to class-rooni work. It is a trying process for bothi teachers and children.; ai-d for this, it must be added, the Parents of' the clildréeîî are niostly tb blame. "For une, tlung, parents. are toý Ilamne because uit their alinust- uni- versai, customi of requiring no. iiitel- lectual effort, or almnost no inte lice- tuai effort, froin .thecir .chlidren, throughout the long vacation; of let- ting the ýchildrein give theniselves so conpletcly to amnusemn rt as tu ac- quire hiabits of mental indolencee which niakes it liard for theîuî .0 buckle. down to 'study wlmen seli1uol reopenis. This is flotsaying that the long vacation sliould,. not bc largelyý a playtnne. Unie of its, basic purpu.Sss 'is tu provide uncreas-ed oportunity ior growth thruugh lay, but it dues chli- dren no harni-It does them a1 great deal- of good--If tiîey are 'expected and tactfully induced to initernîilingie a little study with their play. 6It îIg vitally important for parents to appreciate that the mnd as well as the body grows stft and. flabbv if alioWed to be inert, for any. lengthi of time. .Still worse prolonged -11i=7 tai inertia, like prolonged bodily mier- tia, bre.eds. distaste for. effort. 'IlTiens when effort is required-as it Mevi- tably is for every child on the re- opening 'of. school-there is a resîs- tance which interfeýres miore or less seriously with thie ainiing of, knowl-. edg.e. "AIl teachers,cani bear witniess, to the truth of .this froni personal ex- pèrience 'of the dificult.ies- of' Sep- tember and October. It accounts. for the demand now and againi fronicm cators for :a remaking of the -school year, so that there shouid be no pIro- longed break ini formiai schooling. The demand is likely to reniairi un- heeded., Yet the fact does remnaîn. that to permit cbildren to be study~- Evanhton, Mfinois Witbout obigation. @end ana tel me Dow 1 cma make the. thirtv-maaute tet of S1.ep>' Water. torminthe William Arçher trans- latioin. Charles Scribner's Sons, thie original publishers of Ibsen-, an- nounce that "Peer Gynt" now sells more 'than any other play. It bas only just gained supremacy. . Before 1930, thé* volume which contains ,,The Doli's House" and '-Ghosts"p .old, best-every year. d i:o Lrent >see icaner sôire<.ueintjy ave reason to attribute to the long vacation. ."Unhappiiy tlîis course, the idea course, is the one which only the ex- ceptional parent today ýtakes. That is one reasen why so many childrený find it liard to readjust and study tîO good purpese. when schooi reopens.",

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