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Show i,r A TASTE FOB READING. The mother whose' task it must be to form in her children a taste for readingiinay inquire, by whafc means shall I set abont this work? How shall I beguile my active boy from his games, or my daughter from her playmates, in order to interest them , in books? I would advise such a one 16 begin a coursa of reading aloud to her little onei in the late . afternoon, says Mrs. Sangstor,'in the Congregationalism before supper, for example or in the hour just after ho -evening meal, choosing a pleasant story, ' reding a prescribed time and breaking break-ing off at an interesting point If thiols 'done regularly the habit of anticipation will soon be established. establish-ed. With the older young people I would try to have reading -aloud by turn. in the eVoning ' whenever the "family can be assembled. Let the conversation at tlie table turp ,.. on the books roadr.TIns is almost traditional as a New England cus toniif one may judge both front observation, aiWTfronrmuoh etudjr of New England's literature of 'biography. TThe love of reading leads by easy steps to intelligent j discussion, and I know more thaii one household in which an adjournment adjourn-ment of the family as a committee of the whole tocouncil an encyclopedia encyclo-pedia or a lexicon is not an uncommon uncom-mon performance after the "leisure- J ly evening meal. |