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Show HwnVt la IUmiI In lUmnMli B.rae peoplo never take hot ks to the country with them Tin y e ther fI no teo 1 forlho strength or relaxation they might gain from reading or thy rely nn chance for their mental pabnlom low are tbo tea lent who carry with them anything but the llghtmt of earn ixr novel .books tliat can be thrown away without regret when finihed 1'erlmi it Is too much to ask that any one not u student should cii-end much energy in hot wS tr upon mental Improvement. Im-provement. Ye 31 doee seem as tlioitgb something better might 1 real than the merely ephemeral novelette. How many of the rising generation are really famll lar with the novels of Srctt, of Dickens, of Thackeray, cf Cooper, of tlrorita Fllot. of Mim Mulock or with lh charming long and r-hort storfea I -your own American aothon? Tliere was a time when the lwmvy binding and high cunt of atandania ren dered them undesirable links to read in a hammock, Int the recent Imth of tho works of many of the best UnglUh anl American wriu-rs In paper rovers does away with this objection. Good books. In good type, "i good papr, at n price that p net I call) puts then within the reach of every cne, nro to bo had on every luted In iHchatnf an oulf.t for tho frani mer vacation the hammock took should no more be overlooked than tlie hammock ham-mock Itself, bnt let lioth U of a klixl that will stand wear. Tradiy rwidlng provokes a mental dysperwli akin to tlie I hysical malaise protiocetl by a diet 1 1 awe t menu unaccompanied byeubatan tlals. Bnch a course of treatment nnftts cither luln lor body to do the winters work, fur which strength should 1 accumulated ac-cumulated durlnj a summer vacation. UarjH;ra lUxar |