The Kewpies and the Sensible Woman. "Oh, Bobbie!" Nan says, happily, "see what the dear little Kewpies have brought us! Don't they know what we like?" And Bobbie says, "Hoo-e-e! I guess they do." The wise Kewpies are always doing the right thing to make little and big folks comfortable, contented and happy, and of course they know, just as sensible women know, that good things to eat are one of the first considerations. And where is the list of good things to eat that does n't begin with JELL-O No sensible woman will overlook the easy Jell-O way when she wishes to serve a particularly delicious dessert, for the low cost and the delightful flavor as well as the ease of preparation of Jell-O, are too well known for that. Jell-O is put up in seven pure fruit flavors: Strawberry, Raspberry, Lemon, Orange, Cherry, Peach, Chocolate. Each 10 cents at grocers'. Dozens of the most beautiful and delicious Jell-O desserts are described in the Kewpie Jell-O Book for which Rose O'Neill, the famous "mother of the Kewpies," has made some of her greatest Kewpie pictures. A copy of the book will be sent to you free if you will write and ask us for the Kewpie Jell-O Book. 10¢ THE GENESEE PURE FOOD CO., LeRoy, N. Y., and Bridgeburg, Can. The name JELL-O is on every package in big red let A PACKAGE ters. Be sure you get JELL-O and not something else. 'And While they were out together the other day, Herbert pointed out a straight tall silver birch, and told Betty about a birch tree that they flavor tooth-powder with. "They do not use the ordinary birch, you know," said he, "but a black birch that grows in the forests of Pike County, Pennsylvania." "If the tooth-powder is flavored with the oil from birch bark, it must be pretty good," Betty interposed. "It is," Herbert responded. besides tasting good, it helps to keep your teeth white and clean. They take the bark of the tree and get a rich oil which is very expensive, and that gives the delicious flavor you like so much. They usually call it oil of wintergreen because it tastes like wintergreen." "And does n't it make the tooth paste-powder, I mean-cost more than others?" Betty inquired. "It comes in powder and paste too,' said Herbert, "and sells for the regular price. The powder is flavored with wintergreen and the paste with peppermint-so you can have the one you like best." Learn to read slow: all other graces Will follow in their proper places. Walker. Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. Book of Common Prayer. IN another part of this number you will read all about the fact that the offices of ST. NICHOLAS have been moved, with the rest of The Century Co., from Union Square to 353 Fourth Avenue. The distance is only a matter of less than half a mile, but the changes are great. The Union Square offices, in which ST. NICHOLAS was prepared for two generations of readers, and which were once considered very fine, were dark and overcrowded. The Book Man now enjoys a desk in a large, airy, sunshiny room, where it is even more of a pleasure than formerly to open letters from his friends, the readers of The Book Man. AND the letters contain such pleasant news! Do you remember the letter quoted in the January issue, from the boy who told about his library, and the reading aloud during winter evenings? Many others have followed his example, and tell of libraries of "over one thousand books," libraries containing all of the works of Dickens, Scott, Eliot, Balzac, Thackeray, as well as the Encyclopædia Britannica, The Century Dictionary, Plutarch's "Lives,' and more, and more, and more! Others tell of subscriptions to more than a dozen magazines, and many happy family reading circles, where father or mother reads aloud, or where the children read to one another. A number of groups are reading European history this winter, and one writer mentioned a number of books about Panama, which is, of course, a much more pleasant topic of world interest to be reading about than the war. Most of the writers give their favorites, among them being the ones so often mentioned in these columns that I 'm sure every one of THE BOOK MAN-Continued you has read them all by this time. If not, I'm sure you will, right away. Here are some of the best liked: Kipling-The Jungle Books Captains Courageous Jean Webster-Daddy-Long-Legs Burpee's How many of the "best books" listed last month have you read? Of course none of these is suited for the youngest readers of ST. NICHOLAS, many are hardly suited for the older ones, and they do not comprise all the fine books, by any means. But here are six from that list I 'd like to have every one of you read: Goldsmith-The Vicar of Wakefield Lytton-The Last Days of Pompeii A Tale of Two Cities Have you already read these? them again. If so, read Of PERHAPS you are wondering by this time what the quotations heading this column are there for. In all your letters you mention vast numbers of books which you read, name your favorites among books and authors, and tell how much you enjoy reading. But seldom do any of you mention re-reading a book. course, many of you do re-read, but most of you evidently have not learned the importance of slow, careful reading. A really worthwhile book is worth a second and a third and even a fourth reading. Read, re-read, and "inwardly digest" is the way to get the most out of books. One good book read three times is worth more than three books read carelessly. How many of you re-read your favorites? How many times have you read the one you like best? DON'T forget, when answering all the questions asked this month, and when you write to ask advice about reading, to address your letters in care of The Century Co., 353 Fourth Avenue, at 26th Street, instead of to the old address. The Book man |