Show I Uncommon I II Io I I o 0 S Sense nse o 0 lUE DIGESTION ne Read d mark and inwardly digest digest di digest di- di gest said the philosopher r. r But the world as a rule takes only Thirds tv of his advice It rea reads it marks narks but digestion 1 I is ts more difficult business and is t too likely to be neglected In college examinations show show- that the average student h has s a b bad d mental digestion He takes in the words of r the tha 16 loc loc- tur tunes tur's s me l' l as h he hC t takes k s food tood Into his mouth But not all food is digested ested bythe bythe by bythe the stoma stomach h nor Is all mental food digested b by b the brain Mental digestion means more than mem memorizing g. g It means the conversion of ot the Words that the ears receive into the ideas that they hey are meant to convey COrti It means aris not ot m merely r iy storing th the wo words awa away in memory which Is practically worthless but analyzing them getting the kernel of ot thought out aut of ot th them m and putting the thought In the brain where it can be got I at when It itis is needed The middle aged ladies who go goJo goo got t Jo o th the thit public libraries for popular i novels to be r read ad for tor entertainment g gallop llop through two or more of ot them thema a a. day clay and ad return return them without having extracted from them a 0 single Idea To r read ad for entertainment is like eating for the taste of at the particular lar lax unwholesome dish that is beIn being being be be- In ing eaten It contributes nothing to Ui the 1 tern tem em Education Is not hard to ic ac acquire quire It Is to be found not only in the college but In the street Not only in books but in the words and nd ac actions actions actions of men Education mean digested knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- ed edge It means that the brain g goes es to work on mental food food food-as as the tho stomach stomach storn- storn ach goes oes to work vork on physical fo food d dand and and converts It into something that will become of at p permanent V value UL Like most of ot the other ills tha that t fl flesh sh Is heir to mental l Indigestion Is caused chiefly by l Indolence Dissecting a passage from a It speech or a par paragraph graph from a Il book involves labor and since the world began ilan labor has b been en distasteful But nut if It th the mind i is to grow it is absolutely t ly necessary ec Tho mind that can dig digest sf l is a aI I mind that will develop I The mind afflicted with indigestion t tion f on will vill r remain maln puny uny and of ot little account for life lite I Take Tal Take e jour mental food slowly tt think ab about ut If it and there will come I a a. a pow power of n- n that will cIll make mak it a Ii mind worth haying hav hay ing C i 1024 by th the Bell Dell S Sy Syndicate k Inc |