Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1919 — BOOKMARKS OF EVERY KIND [ARTICLE]

BOOKMARKS OF EVERY KIND

Strip of Bacon About the Most Unique That Des Moines Librarian Has Yet Found. The most startlingjnarker that Forest B. Spaulding, public librarian of Des Moines, lowa, has come across in the books that have circulated from the library was a strip of underdime bacon. The most ordinary found in the books is the common variety of wire hairpin. Hairpins might be collected by the hundreds. Mr. Spaulding says, but owing to that very fact they are considered as fairly worthless from the collector’s standpoint. The vacation season is announced annually by the presence of snapshots in the returned books. These are both personal or otherwise in character, Postcards and letters, too, come in often. Frequently letters addressed Tind stamped—are found just as they -werer-left—by—the—book-borrower-who-doubtless was proceeding postofficeward by way of the library. These are mailed from the library. Mr. Spaulding has noticed any number of pretty girls sitting on the beach at Riverview Park with books, and he has been looking forward all summer to recovering a bathing suit absent mlndedly left by one of the young ladies in her book.