Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1910 — ODD FIVE-FOOT LIBRARY. [ARTICLE]

ODD FIVE-FOOT LIBRARY.

Engllnh, Ruaainn and Ylddiah Minified in Girls' Collectiona. Since Dr. Eliot came to the front with his interesting assertion that a five-foot shelf is large enough to hold all the books required for a liberal education, there have been published many lists of small libraries, the Scrap Book remarks. One of the most unusual was that of the collection made by four Russian girls, none of whom had been in this country more than six years.. .'■■■. ■ ' ■ ' . .. These girls were Involved in the New York city shirt-waist strike, and it was a mishap which befell one of the quartet which led reporters to their little rooms on the crowded east side, and the discovery of what may be termed “the ambitious Immigrant's five-foot library." ■> • First on the shelf and occupying the