Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1910 — KNEW WHAT SHE WANTED. [ARTICLE]

KNEW WHAT SHE WANTED.

But Did Not Know Exactly How to Ask for. It. "Next to a street car, perhaps, the best place to study humanity is a public library,” said a young librarian of the Drexel Institute, according to the Philadelphia Record. “Librarians have to be mind readers, bureaus of information and depository of family secrets all in one. One day last week a rather nice-looking woman came to me and said: “Will you give me a nice book on hygiene?’ Thinking I was going to aid a soul struggling after light I fished out the best authority I could find on that subject. She took It to one of the side tables, and I saw her scanning page after page, studying the index with deep frowns on her face, but looking altogether despairing. "By-and-by, she came to me and said: ‘This won’t do, I am afraid. Have you got a book on dermatology?’ ‘Dermatology?’ I repeated. ‘Yes,’ she said. ‘A book that tells all about the face.’

"From some of the dark, unexplored recesses I did bring out a book that dealt wtih facial massage, facial blemishes and kindred subjects. ‘This won’t do at all,’ she said, after she had pored over it in the same manner as she had pored over the hygiene. “ ‘What on earth are you looking for anyhow?’ I ventured to question at last. ‘Why,’ she said, ‘I—I am just looking for a recipe for cold cream.’ ’’