Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-27
KEEP A SCRAP BOOK.
The Invaluable Information and Enter.
tainment to be had.
From the Christian Advocate.

From the Christian Advocate.
advise every boy or girl to keep q scrap
book. If you are ten, or fifteen or twenty
years old, keep q scrap-book. Let me tell you
why and how: Hundreds Of things you
see that you would like to keep, but if you
lay them away you will never be able to find
them when you want them. When was a boy
/ did not have sense enough to keep scrap
books. began some but did not keep ON long
with them.
My memory was good, but can now remem-
Der many things that can't remember. What
/ mean is this: remember reading beautiful
piece of poetry, of which two or three lines
can call up, but the whole 1 can't recollect.
In some cases do not know the name OF the
writer.
have seen many fine pictures in magazines
and papers that would now be valuable and in
teresting. Some cut out, but they are lost.
Charming stories, wise remarks, pro-
verbs, directions for doing a great many
useful and curious things are also lost:
So much do feel sure that I have lost that
would give $50 apiece for the scrap-books of
each and every year that might have made
from the time was ten till began to preserve
things only few years back.
There is a gentleman who has kept a scrap
forty, and has been arranging them in vol
umes, with an index in the back Of each
one. You would hardly think that the
earlier would be of much use to him.
But they are. He often amuses himself as he
reads them for he sees how little he knew
when he was little; but also finds a little that
he still thinks valuable. Besides, his children
are much interested to see what their
father had collected and pasted in books.
The older he grows the more useful the books
become. He can go to his books, and in a
few minutes get information about every
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tell you about the civil war, the Crimean
war, the italian war, the overthrow of
Louis Napoleon, and a great many other
things, just as they were published in the
papers at the time the event happened.
His scrap-book also contains many funny
things, which provoke a smile and often a
merry laugh, as he reads them to his family in
the long winter evenings. The children would
rather hear him read from the scrap-book than
from the newest story.
If You have no scrap-book, get one and put
in it whatever pleases you. If you have one
and have not used it take it up again. assure
you that you will be very glad of it afterward.
You can buy one very cheap. Some re-
quire paste, and one invented by Mark
Twain and sold in the book stores is ar
ranged like postage-stamps. All you have to do
Is to wet it and lay on what you wish to save.
II you have the money get one Of this
kind 1t is cleaner and less troublesome.
The others, however, will do well enough. A
bottle of muscilage is all you need. Only
you must be careful not to drop any of the
sticky stuff on the pages, or they will stick to-
gether; when you open them the surface of the
paper will pull off and deface the reading.
II you have not money to buy a scrap-book
or do not live where they are sold, one can be
made by taking any old, useless book and cut
ting out two leaves out of three close
down the back, but not close enough to cause
the book to come to pieces. Then on the re-
naming leaves you can paste, using both sides.
This will make three thicknesses, and the book
will close as before.
1t is q good idea to keep the scrap-book
handy. When you cut out something lay it in
till there is a convenient time to paste them all
in. But the best way is to paste them in at
the time.
If can persuade you to do this for twenty
years, or even half that time, from now, you
will feel that you have learned something valu-
able from this article.