Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-11-06

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ovonings consequently proportionally
- The question then which naturally /
~ show shall spend those long win
Gvoo1nGA % ~ to derive the most benefit
1om 2" or course Il II true that quite /
1nombse Of young psopiefn our towns |
51R IKE the time for this problem and /
nons Wvsry their minds in answering It /
urW ~ ignore those for the present; I
-, not trouble them, since they are too
v narUady.) and slldress our remarks to
~ cher class who arc always willing to |
~ tosome timely suggestions and thereby
quite frequently greatly benefited in this
q ~ viii take 1t for granted now that most /
va ars employed at some store or shop, |
- oums homo from your days work at six |
- ovening. From seven to ten o'clock |
~ viii have little or nothing to do How
- yuu going to spend that time? Well, you
~ ~: one evening q week i regularly
n6 In our "club rOom," and another even
~ spend In society, and on Sunday night
~ oourDe 60 to church. That would be
49, evenings engaged, leaving still four
nompaoyed. What are you going to do with
1&Gno tWolve hours In one week, or more than
- 1870 dsy3 You may say, certainly
1I1oe occomplish very much, since the time
u Is = right here where no many people make
'UGn1 oeton proves to them complets failure
= n1A They seem to think that every good
- ~ accomplished must be done by some
1nngie sdort they forget that minutes make
hoGu and that cents make dollars; that
I "a our great scholars once began their educa-
*4u16y committing the alphabet They think
3 ~ during the day they are always kept
Z 6u,1o Cloao to their work, aud OF course, need
- ovonfng for recreation. Recreation is un-
4 1oobtedly necessity for us all, but is there
~ ouch thing ~ turning your recreation
nj vpff hrx
M6f by any means always consist In cessation
60m work, but much rather in divergence
~ octivity. As an old teacher OF mine used
- ny: "When want rest, 1 take up my
noometry." Our good old mothers OF about
< 1lfy years ago, after having spent the whole
~ out in the fields devoted their evenings
- epanning, which likewise was recreation
I'D you are all day standing behind the
Guunter trying to please some "highly es
M0e3c" customers, or, maybe in the work
oAop falling to satisfy the company how pleas
e1E1in b over, to sit down in your quiet home
11noe BY to glowing hearth, having all the
nf1ncetons around you OF happy family life,
Win, We will say, 'Irviug's Sketch Book"
tofbee you, reading such tales as 'Tbe Pride
q ne Village" "The Spectre Bridegroom"
seTho Broken Heart" "The Wife," and q
+ number OF other sketches equally beautiful
nd inatructive Besides 'The Sketch Book"
4 IDUk0 arc nu0uT6Os OF Otn0rs lully Is GOOD.
ssThe Vicar Of Wakefield" by Oliver Gold
smith, you can read in two sittings, and one
& oonfesning ignorance of that world-famous
ut0sy In refined society, would be deemed
\ noxt TO culprit Then there are the histories
q both Of our own and foreign countries, We
kgvo no excuse for not knowing something
7 shout them.
A you take up any Of these works you will
4 - unce experience decided change coming
cyur you. During the day you tried TO please
tnl,v al
mind and body; but during the evening
nnmo one else is taking you by the hand and
tying 70 lead you through the rich fields OF
Y lleorntures opening new vistas OF beauty to
year mind, such As you never had perhaps
Greamed Of You are forgetting what may
hnvo happened to you during the day,
ol0Oo this new yet pleasant departure after
knowledge Is making use OF your entire
mind.
But you NAV say, what good will all this
reading do me? never expect to enter any
2 Of the learned professions and therefore will
have no need for IL. You may think you
don't STAND In need of such mental culture,
and probably will be able to get along with
q out IT. at least after a fashion. There was a
( time In our history when a man could do
y toierably well with but very limited edu
oafion, and with little or no culture at ALL but
that day has gone by, and We are now draw
B NJ nigh TO the time when wholesale ignor-
MO- In . country like ours will be looked
4 upcu with very little or no pity at all. Re-
4ned society reserves her seats of welcome
not for the vulgar and uDiettered but for the
& 0uAtured. And rightfully does it do So since
X ~ our times there is no longer an excuse to
plead ignorance, since literature universally
= - cheap that even the poorest may avail
4 1homsolves OF Its opportunities.
10 this you may answer: ''the few hours
= thoe are left to me during the evening, IL
would be inclined to devote them to read
4nG would after all amount to but very little"
IN reply TO this let me give you few prac-
y UXGnI XkmufPnfi0UQ which I Gatn nal
Hmilos "Self Help" which, by the way, is
4 o10sner one OF the many good books that no
yqlnG man OF young woman can afford to be
L1thOut In 1t sm told that Dr. Mason
y Xooo Gnnsiated Lucretius while riding In
& - an iaGe In the streets of London, going
- xound OF his patients. DIR. Darwin cou-
1eoo nearly all his works in the same way
Zntle driving about In his ''sulky" from
4Qu1e 70 house In the country writing down
- thoughts on little scraps of paper which
- carried about with him for the purpose
1ele wrote his "Contemplations' while trav.
0m& on circuit DIR. Burney learned French
- Italian while travelling from one musical
! rop0 to another In the course OF his profess
ktrke White learned Greek while
yeAkmg 70 and from lawyers Office. Mad
- 90 Geulis composed several OF her
9Rming volumes while waiting for the
Zx0coes 70 whom she gave her daily lessons
!l1u Burrttt attributed his first success In
.Elmprovement, not to genius, which he
41nanamed, but simply to the careful employ
u
eelled sodd moments" While working and
o9Entng his living blacksmith he master.
- oomo eighteen ancient and modern Ian.
x1aEeA and twenty-five European dialects
SWould you still hold now it was not worth
xnile 70 devote your evenings to good intel
iooeual reading?
Reading coed books serves double pur.
Ro.e; II 10 negative good in so far that it
yn4 help TO keep you out of bad company
30 positive good in so far that il entertains
S0o lnntructs you at the same time. We all
nave noticed the great difference between the
Gonversations of the cultured and the one
mo always WAS too busy 10 take up a book
Ino tOrmer will entertain and instruct Won
while the latter can do no more than simply
omune you, his talk will Invariably begin on
fne weather aud end with the dog ID Int down
- the square the other night IT YOU should
happen 70 ask him about certain familiar pro-
Guott0ns In literature such as "Romeo and
5ul1et, he will be just as likely as not TO tell
xoQ that he has already heard OF book called
9o0oob but did not know that there was also
80 ~ the name OF Juliet
~ young friends, let me advise you not
- opond your evenings in running around
- efroets. In frequenting low operas and in
loeang around the corners waiting for some.
0lng 10 turn up, but much rather 20 and turn
~ something good yourself; select few
Dood companions and with those spend your
Yyen1ngs In the house in reading good liter
nEA and you may live to see the day when
y1ll thank Uncle Toby for having given
- this blunt advice
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