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Show . , TIMELY TOPICS 1 . 11 0 LIVINO AND READING Th. Inveterate novel reader, abeorbed In on. hook of fiction after another a. faet aa they eome from the press, seldom realises that ah. tit Is usually shs) 1. mlssins; th. srewteat romance of all the Infinite. Intricate, awlftly moving; romance of the life about her. When novel reading becomes a habit neeeaeary t. owes happlneas It is llks a drug. It deadens en.'a perception.' for real life. Uvinx In fietltloua characters, the person with the novel habit misses th. fun of living her own lite to the full. In a way ahe haa turned over the buelneas of living t th. tory-tsllers to do for her. They are nothing loth. They muat be th. hardest worked people on earth, they ar. living by proxy for so many others. Of course a wis. selection of the boot romances helps ue In th. Interpretation which adds sest to ltfs. But th. greateat romancea are th. real ones about na everywhere; nor do we need to conoem ourselves with ether people e business unduly In order to enjoy them. Just th. plain, every-day business of living our own Uvea and being aympa-thetla aympa-thetla with those elos to us is romance enough and neede the beet of our wide-awake faculties. Ohio Btats -Journal. " |