October 9, 1921 - Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, Arkansas) - Elberfeld Girls are Book Lovers
ELBERFELD GIRLS AE BOOK LOVERS
"Kid's" Five Daughters Are Well Up on Fiction and Poetry
"If you were cast away on a desert island with only one book, what book would you choose?" The question is one that has never satisfacorily settled in the Elberfeld family, for Nan and Edith and Miriam and Dorothy and Ruth all agree that it would be hardest thing the world to select just one book, out of the many hundreds they know and love.
It would hard to find a more intresting roup of girls than these five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Elberfeld, whose intrest in li literature is only equaled by their interest in atletics; who knowledge of books is no less well developed than their knowledge of current events and whose wholesome taste in reading is matched by their normal outlood on life.
It is said these five girls are the most disciminating readers of their age that come into the Little Rock public library. The weekly trip to the library develops into a function in which Mrs. Elberfeld, the five girls, and the librarian in charge take an equal interest. The choice of the books is a weighty matter and the volumes that strew the librarian's desk are books that would do credit to the taste of far older readers. The girls choose their own books from the shelves with that occasional appeal for help which is one of the delightful features of their relation to older people. "Is that a good book?" and "Did you ever read that?"
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But, not only has the mental side of their education been stressed. The daughters of "Kid" Elberfeld coul hardly fail to take an active interest in sports. Their healthfully sunburned faces are a familiar sight in the manager's box at Kavanaugh field during the season, where they follow the play with the ardent enthusiasm of the true baseball fan.
All have been taught to swim, and Nan holds the record for the highest dive ever made by a woman at Lake Worth, Fort Worth, Tex., made last summer when the "Travelers" were playing the southern circuit. She is also an expert tennis player, winning the singles trophy last spring in the Little Rock - Hot Springs meet given under the auspices of the Girl reserves of the Little Rock High School. Miriam and Edith are following close in their sister's footsteps and even now hold her to a hard game. Dorothy and Ruth, the younger girls, are active participant in the neighborhood games.
"Kid's" Five Daughters Are Well Up on Fiction and Poetry
"If you were cast away on a desert island with only one book, what book would you choose?" The question is one that has never satisfacorily settled in the Elberfeld family, for Nan and Edith and Miriam and Dorothy and Ruth all agree that it would be hardest thing the world to select just one book, out of the many hundreds they know and love.
It would hard to find a more intresting roup of girls than these five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Elberfeld, whose intrest in li literature is only equaled by their interest in atletics; who knowledge of books is no less well developed than their knowledge of current events and whose wholesome taste in reading is matched by their normal outlood on life.
It is said these five girls are the most disciminating readers of their age that come into the Little Rock public library. The weekly trip to the library develops into a function in which Mrs. Elberfeld, the five girls, and the librarian in charge take an equal interest. The choice of the books is a weighty matter and the volumes that strew the librarian's desk are books that would do credit to the taste of far older readers. The girls choose their own books from the shelves with that occasional appeal for help which is one of the delightful features of their relation to older people. "Is that a good book?" and "Did you ever read that?"
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But, not only has the mental side of their education been stressed. The daughters of "Kid" Elberfeld coul hardly fail to take an active interest in sports. Their healthfully sunburned faces are a familiar sight in the manager's box at Kavanaugh field during the season, where they follow the play with the ardent enthusiasm of the true baseball fan.
All have been taught to swim, and Nan holds the record for the highest dive ever made by a woman at Lake Worth, Fort Worth, Tex., made last summer when the "Travelers" were playing the southern circuit. She is also an expert tennis player, winning the singles trophy last spring in the Little Rock - Hot Springs meet given under the auspices of the Girl reserves of the Little Rock High School. Miriam and Edith are following close in their sister's footsteps and even now hold her to a hard game. Dorothy and Ruth, the younger girls, are active participant in the neighborhood games.
