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Show if j OucIVre a liar. One-page otgsod literature a day, tblAiphtfuuy I .read, must produce beneficial Intellectual results, though tlift reader finds it, difficult to recall at will the ful) thought of the author or to produce a complete sentence sen-tence In u hlcltthat thought or any parts of it v.as expressed, liven tllltht effort, at "giving attention" wltriucreaso jovrvr of concentration.' concentra-tion.' The world cpened by that slrgle page iuy awaken a new Intellectual In-tellectual interest, quicken curiosity, curios-ity, sharpen apiwtlte, aud suggest thoughts of his own tothemlndof Ills reader. The simple jassing ot wc!l-expraed" Ideas across his mind, refine his taste, increase his vocabulary.and give him new interest inter-est in the people he meets and in tho topics which obtrude themselves upon" him In these busy days, when everybody Is thinking and when great eveiitsTtre crowding into tlie wonderful bi'tory now be'ng made. One page a day guarantt cs so much gain of knowledge and power to the attentive and Interested reader. Oftxiurs tho results of oue page will 1ic scarcely appreciable. One day's toll will build no temple. Hut sevcrr days niakoa week, aud four weeki make n mouth, and twelve months contain three hundred aud sixty-five "days. One page a day will thereidre grow lu ono j ear into a volume of three hundred and six-ly-flve pas. -Now, at three hundred-pages s book, one may read in ten Tears tnelve stout volumes. He whujh a decade reads witli inter-estioi'and inter-estioi'and inqulrlugatteution twelve volumes bj no mean student. r. |
