Show II I I I I I I I II I I II I I I 1 il UNCOMMON SENSE I By JOHN BLAKE Overdoses Cross word puzzles are interesting and useful They help the vocabulary They teach concentration To ro some extent they develop the reasoning powers S Moving picture shows are arp a part of American life They put a little artificial excitement into lives which are devoid of the real thing Excitement Isa Js Is s sa a necessity They give one half of the world a glimpse into the manner of life Ufe of the other half That Is useful Anything that broadens the range of vision Is good All AU the things that are popular that people take up eagerly as amusement are are good for them In moderate rate doses as medicines ar are good good In moderate doses But there is danger of ov overdosed rosed with cross word puzzles and with movie shows and with all occupations that are really only side Issues In life Anyone who tells you that all these these are idle employments and ought never to be followed Is not telling you the te truth Nobody can devote his mind constantly to his bis job and do that job as well as he would if he changed his mental viewpoint once in a while Anything that Is interesting is worth doing doing- part of the time But It is very easy to g get t overdosed with amuse amusements amuse amuse- I ments to get Into such a a frame of mind that I amusement is the only thing that seems worth while i In life l I IA I A librarian in a village library told me the other I day that dozens dozens' of women come to her Institution j daily dally tal take e out novels without asking about bout them read them through in an afternoon and an evening I and bring them back next day to take out others Reading Heading does not educate these women I It merely kills time for them I It saves them for a little while from being bored with themselves as others must be who know them From their reading they get nothing at all alt Nobody can get any any value out of a book which Is read only to pass the time away c c. c Nobody can get any mental exercise out of cross crossword crossword crossword word puzzles if the cross word puzzles occupy more than half an hour or so a day None of the people who go to the movies constantly con con- simply because that is something to do will get any real benefit out of them I The world is not so BO dull or so uninteresting that one need constantly be e hunting for something on I which to exercise the mind I Nor is the average mind so unfitted for real realI thought that it must be artificially entertained all allI I the time I Copyright 1924 by the Bell Syndicate Inc |