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Show - '" ' ! .minWrtWKf ILLLLLh The Reading Habit WM Under prosotitdny oonditlons thoro aaaasaal la posltlvoly no exoneo for illltoraoy. fl Now, tho man or womnti who does H not acquire something more than a HH ematterlug knowledge of tbo three IPs 9 le no longer regarded with a nhurl- 9 table fueling ol pity, booauso of hla 9 baring bcou plaoed at groat din- advantngo In bi youth, but udhor ho is couuurod, nud ooudemned i:b n 9 poruon too iole to break nivay from tho bond of Iguorauoe. H Hut, you arguo, it in uot potHlhlo for ovary to attend to rohool today, flH dospito tbo fact that higher education jH eooma tu bo within ready Biioeeso of H Woll, tbeu, lot us agree that tboro H aru Homo few poraona whose livga uro so hemmed about hy rrtipouslblllty Laaasal that thoy tcuy hope to rouiniti in laH school only long enough to stouio n H oomuinn uohool training. Y-t why H may not thse parous, too, bcuomo, lu tha highest souto, noil edcostod? H 1 ha bet thought of all Inspired niuti jH nnd women, tho soul of tho whole H tlmo pt is to bo fouud tf books. H lu hooka lies tho greatest herttsgo of H of the human ruoe, n horltago whluh H tha pour man gharos equally wi'.h hh H rltdier brother, priividod ho lino H loam ad to read. H Carlyla'a etatemeut that "All n H Uulvnralty onti do ftr n man la to H teach blm how to read,"" Is a maiilfast H trulsai, for tbo plnau wo am to got H kuowloduo, oven theorotio knowiodgo, H Ih lu bonks thnniBolveu. H Today, tbe Ptibliu Library ectlyou H tbo problem of pi r.olng good hooka H within oney reuoh of every porson H who deplroa to rend ; Iho only troublo H ret-jiilnlim, Is that lu many poreouo H Hue desiio has yut to ho uiouoed. H Dfptornbln an tha condition seems, H aUsUUUUVlUn - - H olir aominunltlas today there uro H foorcu of joiiiig toon uud women who H hare nover experienced tho thrill H that oomoa from reading, o un H proboiifllvoly, a gutd pleoo of H literature. Tho allow tbomaelvrs to H go groping hliudly through IlCe; H Iguureutty trying to cope with lifo'n fl tdggeht problems, uud lv.ot.iue of thoir H uuo'illgbtuuiiteiit uro umially woretod H in the struggle. H If every loafer on tho etreste, every H person whoee vices re leading hlin fl downward, uud every so ohIIuiI H orimluRl oauld bo cuoouragad to 9 spend two hours osoh dy, for eovoral 9 yeses, in prolltubio rending, wo M eltould soon huvo no loifnru, no 9 oltlzpuo of vicious hftblte, and no M uriuiiuula. Tho peraou who la in- M lluenaed to reach u moro elevated M piano if thouuht rarely dn'pn hank H luto his earlier, uninspired modo of M living. ksH In the City Piiblio Library at your H dlspoiul uro mnro than a half thousand H good hooka. How many of them huvo ftH you randy Thoro ore aiuo niaoy of the H bof-t icrlcdioala publhhed In tbo H United Statu?, through reudlug which H you may beoomo oouvorannt with the H prauroEs of tho woild. H Havo you acquired the Rending H HahitY lf uot, why not do an now, lu H view of tho fact that llliternoy la no jH longer tnlerated, mndloriM learning H Is eooriiol, nd Iih who will ret. oh the H hlgbest piano of booIh! eflJoluuov H must bu well cduoatrd, even though H ho be foroetl to acquire his kuonloilgo H unaldtd by lohoola? ';,..' |