Logan Republican | 1903-04-14 | Page 3 | Edison's Way of Wording

EDISON'S WAY OF WORKING. Never Lays a Book Down Until He Has Finished It. Tho play of Thomns A. EdlBon's mind Is ns wonderful ns tho characteristic charac-teristic way In which ho does his reading. read-ing. Outsldo of his technical rending he Is said never to- read a book unless It is spoken of to him by his wifo or somo frlond. Then ho sits down and reads until ho has flulshed It. One evening ho hnppcncd to bo unusually engrossed with somo "problems," and was nervously pacing up and down his library llko a caged Hon. To divert his thoughts his wife camo In and picked up tho first book sho saw. It happened to bo "Tho Count of Monto Crlsto." "Havo you ever read this story?" said Mrs. Edison to her husband. Ho stopped and looked at the title. "No, I never have. Is It good?" Mrs. Edison assured him that It was. "All right. I guess I'll read It now," nnd within two minutes tho "problem," "prob-lem," whntovcr It was, had been forgotten, for-gotten, and ho was absorbed In Dumas' Du-mas' great story. As ho finished the book ho noticed tho light of day peeping peep-ing In, and on looking at his watch found It wnB 5 o'clock In the morning. No sooner had he laid wn the book than tho forgotten "problem" Jumped Into his mind, and, putting on his hat, ho went to his laboratory and worked unceasingly, without food or sleep, for thirty-six hours. New York Times.