Show Reading Habits Give Clues to Character Periodicals and books regimented or lightly strewn on the American parlor table often tell of social habits habits hab hab- its and pretensions quite as accurately accurate accurate- ly as many of the generalizations from data of questionnaires that some of ot the most solemn of ot these books and magazines contain Like the answers to the social researchers researcher's questionnaires the table that is s very vezy neatly shingled with periodicals periodicals' o 11 one side and arid very neatly walled between tl be- I tween book ends with the books of the month or the minute or the split se e ec- ec ond onci on the other is under suspicion on Presumably there has been pl plenty nty ot time for deliberation in cither case for choosing and putting what 15 1st thought to be the best foot forward There Is a disarray th that t is just uj self self conscious conscious of course If It the family fan fam- an anBy ily By circle is still in a state of content with the pulps and the tabloids tabloids tab bids the chances are there will be a completely candid disarra disarray of such literature literature lit lit- in the bottom o of an art t easy y chair On a on top of ot the gas stove on the floor by a divan and But there is a degree of ot sophistication or or a affectation that affectation that sweeps all highbrow pseudo high br brOwand w and class magazines off ott the table and ostentatiously shows there in qualified disorder some of the magazines maga maga- zincs ames of large larg circulation that are edited edIted ed ed- down to a mental age of the early cub teens Young intellectuals w who o cut their teeth on the little magazines often otten go from puppy biscuit it diet t ta garbage on their way to a more some and balanced diet diel Incongruity of another sort orn tome tome- times appears nowadays as city and country ways are mingled in the ru tic pied pled a terre The New Yorker and The Rural New Yorker ar arseen are seen in juxtaposition The Yale R Review Re Review view and the mail order catalog lie down together the final number of ot The Mound and Horn with cold ho hOr being mistaken for a magazine of outdoor interest like its neighbor on oat i ithe the Field and Stream j First Aid to the Ailing House and fl Gertrude Steins Stein's The Making of Americans are arc often found elbow to tOJ elbow New New York Herald 7 |