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Volume 9 October 13, 1911. Number 41 
Our Good Friends 
What good friends we have about 
us! By night the light of stars, by 
day the glory of the sun. On every 
hand the work of nature opens the 
mysteries of the world to our won- 
ders and awe. These all give us 
pleasure and stimulate healthful 
curiosity. But human hearts long 
for human hearts and the human 
mind loves the communion and med- 
itation made possible by the stimulus 
given by other minds. Life is long 
and the path is circuitous and the 
new day finds tasks for the hand 
and mind of men and in the work of 
the world the joy of fellowship and 
intellectual exhilaration is set aside 
for the while until night cometh and 
the reading light and books afford 
what the day’s labor has denied. 
Our friends in the flesh cheer and 
comfort us and next to them the de- 
lightful companionship of books. 
They open the pages to the myster- 
ies of nature, the glories of the heav- 
en, the pleasures of travel, the en- 
couragement of biography, the con- 
solations of religion, the beauties of 
poetry, the mysticism of philosophy, 
the intricacies of science, the shad- 
ows of the past and the prophecy of 
the future. Man may hold commun- 
ion with the whole world through 
the printed page. 
Now our good friends are to be 
eared for in new homes. Manchester 
has a beautiful library and Beverly 
Farms has none. But out of the 
debris of a city lot Beverly will 
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soon raise a beautiful building, the 
ladies of the Lothrop Club (Beverly) 
say, let it be of marble, and so say 
we all of us, but most are so pleased 
at what may be after so long wait- : 
ing that the structure type of the 
new building has provoked little at- 
tention. Now that the plans are in 
hand care should be given them and 
careful consideration to the _ struc- 
tural material. Beverly will have 
its library, of marble so let it be, but 
what a joy a pretty home for books 
of just plain brick or even wood or 
its structural substitute, concrete, 
would look in Beverly Farms. 
But a library is neither wood nor 
stone; but books our’ good, good 
friends, and friends need care. The 
Beverly committee have had some 
difficulty in keeping up the appear- 
ances of the friendly volumes and 
warn all against the diseases com- 
mon among them. Most of them are 
dirt diseases and develop. rapidly 
because of carelessness and ignor- 
No antidote has been found 
ance. 
except care and education. The 
‘‘hospital’’ is always full and the 
‘‘nurses’’ overworked. Broken and 
strained backs are frequently  re- 
ported as accidents, the result of 
improvised book marks, such as 
handkerchiefs, lead pencils or 
matches. Some are ‘‘overcome with 
the heat’’ of radiators whereon they 
have been carelessly laid and some 
are just ruthlessly maimed, torn and 
crippled. But worst of all the in- 
jured friends are returned ‘‘splinted 
and plastered’’ by amateur doctors 
and ‘‘recovery’’ is often hopeless. 
The committee is really right; our 
friends the books need good homes 
and equally good eare. Let rever- 
ence be done these honored tomes. 
The Deadly Mushrooms 
Rarely has there been a more 
productive yield of wholesome and 
poisonous mushrooms than has been 
evident during the last month. The 
mushroom has reached the best stage 
of its development and is rapidly 
deteriorating. The fall usually 
brings a crop of mushrooms and 
with it a long list of fatalities from 
eating poisonous growths, mistaking 
them for the edible type. Year af- 
ter year the toll of death is paid for 
ignorance. The best policy for the 
amateur is total abstinence and 
there will be no risk. Sometimes an 
expert will make an explainable er- 
ror, but pays the penalty either with 
BREEZE 
his life or with a painful and weak- 
ening sickness. 
Among the most treacherous 
vegetables are the destroying angel 
and the fly mushrooms. The deadly 
amanita will take a life in twelve 
hours and as the effects of the pois- 
on is not evident for some hours no 
antidote can be administered in time 
to save life. The editor came across 
a collection of mushrooms which had 
been gathered by someone probably 
for eating and among them were 
a number of deceptive poison- 
ous growths mistaken for ‘‘hygroph- 
orous fuliginous.’’ They had been 
thrown aside and the wise decision 
had doubtless saved a life. 
A popular error is the false no- 
tion which has gone abroad that any 
orange colored mushroom growing 
upon a stump of a tree is edible. 
The Chanterelle, a 
growth it is claimed is edible, but 
there are other growths which easily 
deceive the inexperienced. It is an 
unwise policy to trust the judgment 
of second class restauranteurs as 
they frequently purchase them from 
well intentioned persons who may 
have been as ignorantly deceived as 
any other amateur. The mushrooms 
served at first class hostelries are 
eulture grown by expert gardeners 
and the risk is reduced to a mini- 
mum. 
The mushroom growth develops 
tremendous power. Frequently one 
may see on the hillside or near a 
swamp a tree wherein the mushroom 
spores have settled and the favor- 
able weather has developed them 
and there the growth has actually 
thrown the binding tree bark back 
as they have struggled out into the 
light. A small idea of the strength 
of the frail little plant may be de- 
termined by laying the hands to the 
bark and feeling the tension and 
testing the strength required to dis- 
turb the tree bark. 
Mushrooms are an_ interesting 
study for the eye but dangerous ex- 
periments for the stomach. 
The State as a Good Samaritan 
On the old road to Damascus by 
chance the Good Samaritan came 
upon a fallen brother and had com- 
passion upon him and knelt by him 
and ministered to him. This scene 
has always been the exemplification 
of the yearning human heart going 
out to others in distress. But help- 
fulness requires something besides 
good will and determination. In no 
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