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Show READ A HALF HOUR A DAY How a Housewife With Intelligence Kept Herself From Drifting Into a Dull, Old Worran. A wemnn who has brought tip a big family on a Btnall lncomo, yet has managed to keep mentally alert, says It Is due to a Half-Hour club. This club has as Its fixed rule that half an hour each day must bo spent In solid reading. Thero was a leeway of 24 hours, after that there was a fine of five cents each day for failure fail-ure to get through tho prescribed reading. Twice a month the club coots for discussion of tho reading done and to collect fines of delinquents and spur thorn on to fresh effort. Tho woman who told of this club sas: "No one knows what It has meant to mo. When jou are tho ono woman In a family of boys, have a bushel basket of stockings to darn weekly, six children to sow for, lessons les-sons to be heard, It Is a big tompta-tlon tompta-tlon to stop reading entirely or to fritter sparo minutes on novels. That haU hour a day of solid reading has kept mo up with tho times, has rested my body and stimulated my brain, and, best ot all, It has kept me from drifting Into a dull old woman, of whom my sons might love, but would pity for her Ignorance Especially If you live In a Bmall town Is such a club of Importance. It Is easy to stagnate, unless a conscious effort Is made. The winter season Is the tlmo to start Buch a club among yours neighbors. Do not bo content with planning a half-hour reading dally for yourself. You will never hold to It without tho stimulus of companionship com-panionship and the broadening Interest Inter-est of the fortnightly meetings. |