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Show cial and professional peonle.' Systematic reading is a railroad which takes you from anywhere any-where to better methods. meth-ods. You can read systematically oven wnen you road tho dally uowspaper if you watch for a good idoa to put to work In your regular employment. Thero Is more ple"sure In reading to a purpose than in reading to kill timo or to feed our morbid curiosity. While systematic reading may not mako us governor of our state, it will help us to llvo bettor and have something some-thing at tho samo time. Wo nil need more common-sense for common subjects sub-jects wo know wo do. A man started a jolly good timo club, which mot for n banquet every few weeks, and whon I suggested that they havo up somo useful subject to swing around nnd havo n good timo alEo, ho replied that ho was so tired evenings that ho could not think and must havo a laugh. As I did not invest flvo years' timo on a medical courso of study for nothing, I made up my mind to watch j this man nnd his club. In n littlo I whlio tho man was so sick tho lnstir- I anco companies told him thoy could not pass him for a year, if evor again, I and the club wont to pieces. Thero is a great difTcrenco between ' tho enthusiasm of earnestness nnd j tho laughter of fun. Enthusiasm for usefulness loads Xo resit , anil .health. ki.,MiiuRiirti'alirne leads to sickness sick-ness and frequently moral poisoning. And about the reading of books nnd newspapers or tho attending of amusements amuse-ments or entertninmeiiLs go at it to know moro and nail down tho ideas , in a noto book, then enjoy It all you : can, but let the permanent benefit prccedo the temporary pleasuro part. I Evory person In this woild needs to gain in sKlll on something nnd flvo minutes n day reading nnd thinking think-ing to a purpose or reading, thinking, think-ing, Booing and hearing to know moro about tho mnnngoment of self will give rest, wisdom and will powtr. As individuals become interested in and loam how to bettor gathor tho personally useful thoughts hero nnd thero, and nlso learn how to apply : them in tho light way at tho right timo, I try to lecord their experiences and pasB them along to you. Suppose j you and I rend a good idea to day. ' You remember it and uso it, whlio I I forget it. In a year wo meet, and 5 on toll mo how useful it has boon to you, then I recall my having read it and your certirIng to Its vnluo gets mo to using it and my story of It all may get ( others to using it who might not tako any practical interest In it ns n baro statemont. Ton years ngo n man said to mo I that he should think thot I would get so many duplicated ideas and stories from my research invitations. I told him that was just what I wanted. If twenty people told mo that a certain method had proven useful it was bettor bet-tor than if ninctoon told mo. In somo cases I prefer to havo a person certify cer-tify to somo report on illo to having thorn report to mo on Bomo new subject. sub-ject. If somo things aro truo, It Is ' tremendously important to havo It known ns a fact and told to overy boy and girl tho moment thoy reach tho ago of understanding. it to D then I) adds a letter to all and ' sends both letters to C who doos tho samo and malls to D. When tho bundlo of lottors comoB ' around to A tho first letter by A is removed and a now letter written and tho bundlo goes to D who doos tho , . same. Tho lottors should bo short but contain con-tain nows for tho others nnd nny good , Idea worth recording. Photographs brighten tho packngo but thoy should I . bo unmounted if possible. L. The graduating class clrclo lcttor $ Is circulated In a tin bo's by oxpress g but tho flvo cousins send theirs under I .1 two cent Btamp. 1 t Tho group benefit from thio kind ot g , union correspondence is a sustained Br Interest in mutual subjects and tho ''ft personal help is from an excrciso In B 1 promptness na the bundlo is to bo ro- Hi mailed soon after it is received. l, Other personal helps aro from hav- 3 Ing an audlenco with a variety of read- ers and getting replies from them, also 8 being prompted to keep awaite all tho it timo for items of ln.:res. to put in I your next letter. 1 Tho clrclo letter U a friend of broad- Be nesB and an enomy of dangerous hrk -""m lossnoss becaiiBo it gets jou to review j useful days and think of others occa- sionally rather than of joursolf and fl your work nil tho time. I By being a mombor of ono of these I groups, nnd any ono can btart ono at U any time, you arc shown that others J aro doing nnd thinking in a way to do jou good to koep in touch withthom .! It Is n very pleasing examplo t tore- 1 thought to stait nnd 'or.tlntTfrjj'' J.Iml nt n, mail, crdor social clW-MII thoro Is a mental gain by tho ofrortY 'V7,"BW and othors bocomo grateful to you for If what you hnvo dono In getting them W intorestod in tho recreation with edu K cation. Some members may drop out ( and somo groups may hnvo to disband II but it is possible for jou to find a If fow who will keep tho plan revolving It and tho best waj to keep It going is l to keep it over gi owing into mutually I jf useful lines of thought and co-opera- Vl-A tlon. |