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Show . Sharing Your Books. The world is full of shut-Ins. and there are those who are starving for books and papers, but how many of us make any effort to search them out? A clever article on books which I lately read annoyed me by explaining explain-ing how stupid is the custom of borrowing bor-rowing books, and how vastly more1 desirable It Is for each man to own his own. I decided that the writer was a rich man (although my better judgment should tell me that writers seldom are rich), and I decided also that he was missing a lot of good things if he neither lends nor borrows books. I believe that a book is absut the pleasantest thing there is to share. It produces such a bond of sympathy if it Is enjoyed by a friend, and it provides at once something worth while to talk about. And people do return books, especially espe-cially if you put your name and :'please return" inside and remember where your books are visiting. Ella Wister Haines in Christian Herald. |