The Osceola times., 1881-10-01
What to Read.
Seminars Monthly

In planning to use our reading hours
In best advantage. il il well 70 remember
that il takes no longer ID read the be-i
than the poorest. II Is easy 10 spend
time enJungh over some foOlish news
usner story 10 read one Of Shakespeare 5
plays. Keep on hand some good, hearty
book with meat in i, chosen because
YOU are really interested in II, not be
cause it is "considsred" the correct thing
to read. If YOU are too tired and sleepy
70 read anything difficult, try something
light, but le. il be the best Of the kind,
not "slops.7 Il Is 3 good plan 70 have
some book like HOwells Wedding
Journey or Warmers Backlog studies
10 read in the odd minutes and in those
evenings when you are too thoroughly
tired in mind and body to read anything
heavier. and keep the hearty book FOR
the times when YOU are fresher. The
great danger Of this Is that the reading
becomes 50 interesting that the steady
substantial work il crowded out. But
are We not sgmetimes frightened into
thinking that good reading must neces-
-arily be iireS0me2 Novels with eIcit-
ing plots are more fariguing - the brain
weary with the distractions Of a woman 5
work than q thoughtful .sssy on 4 msjes-
tie ooem. Il is not stimulus thai Is
needed. bat change. In MaCauley'
"Ez-ays." or good translation OF the
~ilisd, !, the perfection Of the style or the
music Of the ythm falls on a tired spirit
like showers on TIE thirsty earth. Yet
fa,iguci and busy women stir up their
already exc,tel nerves Charles Reid or
Wilkie Collins, and then complain that
they can't read evening it makes them
50 nervous they can't Sleep
Women sometimes think they will not
he interested in the standard English
classics, Just because they are standerd
and classic. Not long since, an intelli-
gent lady Was telling me how sur
prised she vas 10 ind ~Baoon's Essays
20 interesting. She said Il was lying
on the lounge in my husbands library
one evening gfteT an unusually vear'
some dsy, and | took it up because il
vas the nearest book, and ! really felt
A. II could not 60 across the r0o-1 foi
another. ! WAS perfectly absorbed be
fore / knew il, and read for an hour with
a sense Of freshness and eIhileration
which had not known for long time
felt a. if somehow Lad got back Il
the beginning Of things. ! had Away
supposed that Lord Bacon, being very
learned, vas therefore very dull and en-
tirely beyond my comprehension"
If you like history.
The ~or,d : a. before yoa ~hsre T. chose
If you are fond Of Science, you canno
fail TO be interested in the papers snc
books in this held-never 50 numerou,
and never 50 well adapted for popular
reading as now. If yon imagine any o
these departments "tOo literary. sndcan
not be happy without novel, there an
works Of fiction that are as important I
part Of ones education a. qusdrstic equs
tons. to saw the least "ROmOls-" " Ivan
hoe" Hypstia." David COpperield,
~Pendennis.' the SCARLET Letter" Just
think Of all these books so well worth
reading. and vet people viii continue L
drag out Of the Libraries dreAry society
novels" or poor Transitions Of vOrs'
French and German love stories II j.
ike eating spple-skins and potato par
ings hen bananas and oranges NIGH
be had for the picking Bishop Potter
SAYS: 1T is nearly an axiom that peo
ole will not be better than the book.
they read" Consider therefore, vha
kind Of books you read.