Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 21 Hh International affair THE Committee of Literary Extension was holding its first meeting. Five mK- girls sat around a glowing gas log and nibbled daintily at some chocolates which had been sent to the hostess. Come, Margaret, you ‘re the chairman of this committee; please tell us what it is all for, suggested Grace Hayes. Well, girls, I hardly know how to begin. Most of us in travelling have seen those little huts along the railroad with a little bit of cultivated ground around each one. They are the very embodiment of desolation. I have seen whole families come out to stare at the train as it whirled by, and I have often wondered what place there could be for such people in this beautiful, happy world?why I should have my books and friends and the thousand other things that have been given to me, while other people, and worst of all, other women, have to live lives like that. Bn tnter national
There are boys upon farms, in reform schools, and in little towns who scarcely ever see even a newspaper, and who do not know what a magazine is. It is to reach this class of people that this work has been undertaken, and for this purpose our committee has been appointed. Fifteen or twenty magazines and illustrated papers come to us every month?even to the few who are here to-day: perhaps some of you see even more than this. After we have read them, we might send them to these people instead of burning them, and who can tell how many starving minds we may make better, and happier, in this simple way, and with very little effort on our part?
Can they read? It was Grace, an always practical individual, who spoke. If they can’t, they can learn, responded Miss Stone. It will be an incentive to their best efforts in every way. Katherine Bryant leane…