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Show USING THE ODD MOMENTS. Read During Time That Would Other-wise Other-wise Be Wasted. It Is not well to read at the solitary meal, and not all caro to read In bed. But the chance to open a hook comes frequently during the day. Ten minutes min-utes after lunch will dispose of Shake-spcaro Shake-spcaro In a year. Half an hour at tho end of tljo day's work, nnd before the evening meal, will cover a considerable consider-able range of hlctory In tho twelvemonth. twelve-month. Ono can rend volumes of poems and essays by devoting to them the negligible moment Just beforo retiring re-tiring at nlgl-t. While tiavcllng, waiting wait-ing for thu train or for tho tardy guest. It Is posslblo to conduct a distinct dis-tinct course of reading. When tho whole evening Is freo for tho printed book, and It palls on one beforo the evening is spent, there ure chanfee, rest, renewed refreshment. In picking up n book of another sort For the ordinary Intelligent prrhon It Is not even necessary to cultivate tho habit of reading In tho sparo moments. mo-ments. Give it "a chance nt tho start and it grows on one, liko the mania for stealing raro editions. New York Evening Mall. |