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Show HOW TO STUDY PROPERLY. Books Should Be Well Chosen and Read Carefully, Not Devoured. Study is like a dinner. The 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. Othi-s read merely as a fad and soon forge all they may have learned. The most satisfactory method of study is the digestive. 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 asainst it in vonr 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 time. When you have satisfied yourself on the subject, go on With a little more in the same way. In ft 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. |