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Highland Park Press, 2 Oct 1930, p. 31

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Thursday, October 2, 1930 2 Story Hour $ The first story hour at the Highâ€" land Park Public Library will be held on Saturday morning, October 4, at 10:30, in the old City hall where the library is now located for the winâ€" ter. f K special room has been fitted up for the story hour, and all children through the sixth grade are invited. New Books Spirit in Evolution, by H. F. Standâ€" ing. A scientist traces the development of spirit from amocba to staint. Roads to Roam, by Hofflman Birâ€" ney. Delightful in its suggestions for western motor travel.â€" Entertainâ€" ing to read. ~ The Englinh Inn, by Thomas Burke Small but interesting and reliable. ~()"ur \Criminal (3ou)ru, by Raymond Moley. A timely, significant, and readable book. lCE ie William Howard Taft, by H. S. Duffy. More history than biography. Goethals, Genius of the Panama Canal, by Bishop and Farnham. Good ‘to read with the Taft book and relates itself to all the Roosevelt material. & Stories Postage Stamps Tell, by S. T. Rothschild. An Introduction toâ€" Philosophy, by Jackyues Maritain. Dr. Exel Munthe As interviewed at San Michele by T. Gilbert Pearson, "In Rome we found that Dr. Munâ€" the was still living and for two hours he sat in our receptionâ€"room talking of birdâ€"destruction in Italy. He had at first demurred at an interview, saying he was an old wornâ€"out man, nearly blind, and not at all an inâ€" teresting person to meet. In the end he vielded and came from Villa Savâ€" ezia, I think only because he discovâ€" ered that we knew nothing of him except what was revealed by the one chapter of his book we had read. It was from other sources we were‘ to learn that he had: long been one of the most popular physicians of‘ Paris and Rome: that he had worked with Pasteur, was a friend and the: doctor of Guy de Maupassant; that over a great expanse of years he had been the physician of innumerable members of the royalty of various countrics and that he had declined enormous fees to serve some of the world‘s most wealthy people; and that by tens of thousands he is regarded as possessing a most brilliant mind, which grasps a ‘deep understanding of the problems of life, â€" His modesty is most unusual. Decorations he has declined or handed over to servants. Today he is in tremendous vogue and is sought by students and scholars as well as celebrity hunters from every land. People he avoids as he would a plague. 60 N. First St. > Highland Park J. SMITH Highland Park Public Library JUNK TELEPHONE 410 Dealer in I i Phyliss Bottome takes the title of her new novel, Tattere‘d Loving, from one of Shakespeare‘s scennets: the couplet. running: » And puts apparel on my tatter‘d loving, ‘ How naive he must kave thought us, calling him on the telephone and saying we would like to meet him, but he cameâ€""Birdâ€"Protection" were the magic words that brought him. Where Titles Come From The Local Telephone Directory THE TELEPHONE COMPANY ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY and give notice of any changes or corrections that should be made in their listings THE PRESS To show me werthy of thy sweet respect.. The title of Rosamond Lehmann‘s new book, A Note in Music, is taken from Walter Savage Landor; "But the present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come. . . ." to mention only a Jew, We J°N ENBE â€"Wilson Bulletin for Librarians.| Will Rogers with his suggestion, Cornerâ€"Lot Golf â€"> "Premature golf" should have the reâ€" Cornerâ€"lot golf has, according to ward, but Readers‘ Guide have deâ€" accounts, brought loss of sleep to|Cided to use "Golf, Miniature." thousands of good Americans. It is â€"Readers® Guide. In the interest of good service subscribers are requested to call Goes to Press Soon doubtful if it has worried any other so much as the indexers who have had to decide upon a heading for arâ€" ticles which have appeared under the captions: Midget, Lilliputian, Diminâ€" utive, Weeâ€"W illie, Tom Thumb, Pigmy, Halfâ€"pint, or Vacantâ€"lot golf, to mention only a few. We fell that

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