Show T I Sixty Profitable Minutes f I 4 By Dy JOHN BLAKE Read from 8 20 80 clock o'clock every ery morning till 12 o'clock eve every y night and you will never ever read all aUf allf the good books booles that have been written But that Is not a serious cause for despair I Lincoln up to the time he was 16 had re read d Shakespeare and the Bible and had learned to speak and and write almost flawless English j Incidentally along with his reading and observation observation tion lon he had found out a great deal about human humankind kind f t I That was all 1111 when he came to be president president dent of the United d St States in In the most critical pe period period pe- pe Iod i-Iod ot of Its history Shakespeare could not have read rend many books for lor there were were comparatively few books to lie tre had hadIn hadIn hadn In n his time But he read those that were useful to him books that hat taught him human nature and supplied Ideas Idels for the plots of his plays although the plots were not nearly as Important as the thought he put Into them themA I IA A great many people feel teel utterly hopel hopeless ss In walking through a library or a book store How can oon I possibly read all th se volumes volumes' they hey sa say sav And how can I possibly know anything about literature unless I do read them The answer Is that If they will read for exactly one hour every night they will soon know a greet great deal about literature A play by Shakespeare can be read through In two hours Read half of one one night and the remainder the th next and nd In less than a month you will h have ve read rood them 11 ll and probably a good many other things which are worth reading Get goo good books books any any school teacher or librarian will tell teU you jou ou wha what they are are and and establish a regular reading time time the the hour before retiring Is a good and It does doea no harm to read In bed In fact a 8 good many fine educations have been secured that way Including Mark l Twains Make reading a dally daily habit and you will soon get so Interested In It that you will be looking forward forward for for- ward to your hour And If you get in Interested and read more than an hour so much the better I have jet et to hear pf of any anyone one who ruined his eyes by reading two or even four hours a da day daj There Is no need to worry because e of the making making making mak mak- ing of books there Is no end Read Reid those thos that you can and read them thoughtfully thinking about them and making notes of ot other books to which the they refer Read Travels It Is fascinating inthe In Inthe inthe the first place flace and thoughtful In the second It will awaken your Interest In many things which you ou may not b be thinking of ot Just now Read for tor excitement ent Dumas Dumas' Three Musketeers That will vill give you jou ou an interest in the history of France and Ifa lead you you to buy and read books on that fascinating fascinating fas fas- fas- fas story Read any good book but put read systematically and devote one hour a 0 day at least to the pursuit It will give ghe you a real education Copyright 1925 by the Bell Syndicate Inc |