Show READ A HALF HOUR A DAY how a housewife with intelligence kept herself from drifting into a dull old woman A woman who has brought up a bis big family on a small income yet hm has managed to keep mentally alert says aay it is due to a halt half hour club this club has as its fixed rule that half an hour each day must be spent in solid reading there was a leeway of 24 hours after that there was a line fine of five cents each day for failure to get through the prescribed reading twice a month the club meets meet tor for discussion of the reading done and to collect ocille ct anew of delinquents and spur them on to fresh effort the woman who told ot of this club ay no one knows what it ha ban meant to me when you are the one woman in a family of boys bora have a bushel beibel basket baket of stockings stocking to darn dam weekly six alx lx children to sew for lessons ie to be b heard it Is a big kemptar lion to top stop reading entirely or to fritter spare par minutes minute on novels that half hour a day of solid belld reading hu has kept me 0 up with the times has retted rested my body and stimulated my brain and best belt of all it has kept me from drifting into a dull old oman of whom my pon ion might love but would pity for her ignorance especially if you live lire in a small town Is such a club of importance it la is easy to stagnate agnate it unless a conscious effort Is IB made the winter season beason la Is the time to start uch such a club among yours youre neighbors do not be content with planning a half hour reading dally daily for yourself you will never hold to it without the stimulus of 0 companionship panion ship and the broadening interest of the fortnightly meetings |