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Show H' KEEPING SCRAP BOOK H FORTUNATE HABIT H How many people keep scrap H books? That would bo a difficult H question, and those who have acqulr- H cd tlio habit are fortunate, and those who have not, would do well to cul- H tlvate it, especially If they aro busl- H ness H There arc all sorts and kinds of scrap books somo given up to quo- fl tat'ons from books which one has B read and thinks worth keeping, oth- 1 ers filled with copies of beautiful and 1 Interesting plcturos. One business H woman, who hopes to savo enough to H build a little homo of her own some H day, has filled several books with H drawings, and articles and pictures 1 upon houso building, Interior decora- H tions, and in fact, with everything H which pertains to the- making of an attractive homo upon a small scalo. H Give Pleasure H Other peoplo who aro interested H in somo particular epoch In history H .or in somo Interesting personality, H .cither dead or alive, fill scrap books H with everything they can find that H deals with that epoch or person. H Such books aro Interesting to look H over, besides giving a great deal of H pleasure, in tho collecting or facts. H Those, who havo not acquired the aablt havo really missed a great H amount of entortainmont. B One of tho reasons that a scrap ' book Is nice for tho business woman is that it docs not take up much of her time; tho articles or pictures may bo found horo, thoro' or tho other oth-er place In tho evening or morning, nowspapers, In magazine articles, or they can bo copied from somo book which is being read, Theso can bo pasted In In spare minutes and to I look them over afterward brings s ' great deal of pleasure and Interest to tho owner. A general scrap book Is a flno thing to have, If a woman has no special hobby upon which sho wants to collect facta. Just use one big book Into which everything can go from articles upon dressmaking to quotations from tho last book rood. And not only Is It on Interesting thing to have but It la usotul. The business woman has not the time, when sho reads a thing that Interests Inter-ests hor, to say that sho will look It up again Bomo day for that day will nover como. Tho next day brings Its full mcasuro of Intorosts and duties du-ties and when sho wants to rofer to tho certain artlclo sho road a wook or two before sho can't remember Just what It was or whero to look tor it. Collection of Pacts In that manner many useful and In Iterestlng things aro allowed to slip out of our lives, when if wo had had a scrap book we could havo pasted or copied the Ideas that Interested us Into It for futuro reference. Or when ono Is reading a book, a novel or a more, serious work, there nro a great many1 passages pas-sages which, If tho book were ours, wo would mark ond so bo nblo to turn again to them and reread at somo other time. But with tho books belonging to the library it cannot be dono. It Is an excellent Idea to have a small noto book that can be tucked within tho covers of tin book wo are reading; then wo havo It with 'us whether wo aro at homj or riding in tho cars and If wo coir t nY0B3 u passago wo think Is worth remembering remember-ing wo can copy it right out into tho little noto book. In that way wo got and keep tho best In the books we read, whether they belong to tho public library or not, and ho make thorn doublo their valuo to us. The noto book and scrap book habit hab-it Is a mighty good thing to develop and considering tho small amount of energy and time it takes It more than repays tho owner In pleasuro and interest in-terest added to her life. |