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Nov. 10, 1916. 
MANCHESTER WOMAN’S CLUB 
Wit PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION 
As Guests, Hrarp Discussion 
oF CHILDREN’S READING. — 
Because of the inability of Miss 
Bertha E. Mahony, director of the 
Bookshop for Boys and Girls, found- 
ed by the Women’s Educational and 
_ Industrial Union, to be present on 
Tuesday afternoon, the discourse on 
“Children’s Reading” was given by 
Miss Jordan, director of the children’s 
department of the Boston Public Li- 
brary, before a united gathering of 
the Manchester Woman’s club and 
the Parent-Teacher association. The 
Parent-Teacher association members 
were guests of the club for the after- 
noon and the Manchester Congl. 
chapel was filled for the discussion. 
“In the cultivation of good taste in 
reading the selection of the average 
series of 10 or 12 books should be 
avoided,” said Miss Jordan. “These 
books are ephemeral and also tend 
to make the child lose his indi- 
viduality in reading. They lead 
to poor taste in reading in after life. 
As a rule they deal with the life of 
a class of people you would not care 
to have your child associate with and 
they are written in not very good 
English. A more worthwhile book 
for children then the so-called series 
would be, for example, ‘The Prince 
and the Pauper’ by Mark Twain. 
‘Hans Brinker,’ a story of child life 
in Holland is a great favorite with 
children and is worth reading. : 
“The first step in the child’s read- 
ing is the picture book. It is better 
to select one of the old standard 
stories; for instance the story of the 
‘Three Bears’, illustrated in the pri- 
mary colors, than one made from 
pictures taken from the comic supple- 
ment. 
“The ‘Mother Goose’ stories follow 
the picture books in order of develop- 
ment. Pick out a book which tells 
the stories as nearly as possible like 
the original. Some of the recent re- 
visions, which are said by their 
authors to be better for the morals of 
tle child, resemble the original stories 
very slightly. I recently saw one of 
these editions in which the story of 
‘Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son,’ had 
Leen so revised that he ‘picked a 
flower and away he run.’ 
“The next step in the cultivation of 
good taste in reading is the fairy tale. 
It is better to give the children the 
folk tales, those which have stood the 
test of time. I would recommend 
Grimm’s for the younger children 
and Anderson’s for those a little 
older. Mother Goose is an introduc- 
tion to poetry and poetry, the next, 
