Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 263, Decatur, Adams County, 4 November 1924 — Page 12

it U^B r v LI BL , w• • * One of our richest treasure’s f The Decatur Public Library

Now when “the frost is on th' pumpkin and the fodder’s in the shock and autumn days are passing and the nip of winter is in the air, it is a matter ot rare de ight to sit before the open fire of an evening, in slippered feet, in an easy chair, beside the evening lamp, with an absorbing book in hand arid loose oneself from the vexations oi mundane existence and go in search of adventure or ” what not. i ■ / ’■ * As an ally in such honest dis ;iprt : on—provided your own library does not for the moment satisfy the Decatur Public Library offers itself and all its resources. Fittingly situated at the end of Liberty Way is the Decatur Public L’brary and its precious contents. What is it you care to read? Novels? If so, the Library has them thousands of them. Novels ot mariners, morals and mystery. Novels of make believe th it will transform us into swashbuckling creatures ready tor dee Is of mighty daring of adventure. Novels of days of long ago when “Knights were lx)ld and Ladies fair." Novels that supply the thrills of life that we may have dreamed about. Novels that will lift us from a staid prosaic life into valour-land. Or perhaps we are in a soberer mood and vve yearn to know of mens’ theories, researches and speculations, or browse among biographies and s?ek to gain inspiration from the great of other days. We may wish to delv<? into human history and to know of the rise and fall of nations and to speculate upon the future of the race. Perhaps some student among us may want to learn of the riddle of personality, the workings of the mind and explore the histbry of human relations and the constant struggle of the world to lift itself above the savagery of its temptations.

The Use of the Decatur Public Library Is Open to Everybody in Decatur and Adams County. Come One -- Come All - Everybody Welcome • Compliments of—■ ‘ no OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER I, 1924.

Such books as these the Library offers and it has also books of vastly deeper import,—books wh’ch will help to discover for us the soul and lead us into the realm of spiritual a d vent ur e and achievement. Men are bringing light into the dark places and making known the heretofore unknown - illuminations that widen the horizon of the thoughtful. As the days grow colder and the out-of-doors seem less alluring and the home lite and the fire side come more fully into their own we can help ourselves to evenings of pure delight, broaden our hopes and sympathies, bring all the world of the present and ol the past to our elbow and brighten a look into the future that will shed a beneficient light down all the years to come. It is gratifying to know that such possibilities are not being neglected. More and more the young, the middle aged and the old aie availing themselves of the bookshelves of the Library. It is good io know that men and women of all occupations are asking tor those volumes that most appeal to them and retire to their fireside and the evening lamp. The Decatur Public Library has come into its own. It has been and w ill continue to be a bojn to this community. The home life, the fireside, the evening lamp and the Decatur Public Library are in conspiracy with winter days and winter evenings and offer themsehes as hours of delight and satisfaction to all those who will join with them.