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Show HOW TOTUDY PROPERLY. Books Should Be Well Chosen and Be j Carefully, Not Devoured. Study is like a dinner. Tho viands must bo well chosen and eaten slowly, not devoured, then well turned over in the mental stomach for awhile until with ease and comfort they are perfectly perfect-ly digested and furnish nutriment to the brain. Most students study without thought which is like eating without digesting. Others read merely as a fad and soon forget all they may have learned. The most satisfactory method of Btu dy is the digestiva It is the thorough one the one that gives strength to the brain. Take the subject you are studying. study-ing. Read a few lines or a few pages, as the case may be, then put the book down and think on what you have read. Turn it about in your mind from every standpoint Do not accept it immediately. immediate-ly. Argue for and against it in your mind. In other words, masticate it you need not be at your leisure to do this Do it in your walks, in your idle moments, at any tima When you have satisfied yourself on the subject go on with a little more in the same way. "In a short time you will find yourself more a thorough student than if you had read all at a sitting. The best educated edu-cated man in the end is the man who learns slowly, but surely. New York Advertiser. |