Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-06-22
THE WAY TO READ.


Every Day for This Purpose.
Again and again have been asked
by girls who had very little time what
they should read, and sometimes have
answered: The question Of what you
should read is not of half as much CON
sequence as the question as TO how you
should read" Indeed, when the method
and habit of reading is once settled mp
on il helps TO settle the other question
Of what 70 read. The mind will nHtur
ally choose, first something that would
be agreeable for il to consider; and be-
fore we should attempt TO form a
taste" we should try TO become ac-
quainted with what tastes we have at
present Stop and think for a mo-
ment what you would natural
" choose. II should tell
YOU that | would send YOU the very kind
of reading that would give you the most
pleasure, how many of you, do you
think, would ask me for book Of
history? How many of You would want
TO read an essay? How many Of you
would care for book Of travels? How
many of You would say" Give me a story;
comes out well in the end and If good
many things happen along the way?'
How many of you would. If you we're
willing 70 confess il, prefer not 20 have
q book at I'll, because YOU have no halit
of fixing the mind Ion enough on any
one subject 10 make il desirable to tale
mp a book over and over again If you
answered me honestly. would you not,
good many Of Won say Won wonld Ike
a story Int TINT Won would like short
stories, such as can be found in period
icals2
Many Of the girls who ask me what
they shall read arc young. and many
Of them, also, very busy. Real life
has begun early for them. and they are
either much occupied with their school
Studies or busy all day long in some
occupation By which they are earning
money in order 10 board and clothe
themselves: or they are helping their
parents To pay the rent, on they have
taken upon themselves the expense of
sending younger brother or sister to
school such girls have little time, and
ont Of fifty Of them | should probably
find thirty-fve who would answer the
questions above by telling me that they
would like story
My first suggestion would be, let rs
take, 10 begin with the things we
would like the best Let our own in
clination and taste decide Having
chosen cur story how shall we read IT,
/ ir>t of ALI read with regularity Lei
III, take the long day and divide it In
our minds and See how much OF ii
really ought to BE- given ta work; how
much q the care So our person how
much rs our family and friends how
much to rest and sleep. and then see
how much time Is lest for our own i'm
provement It IS hard for me Is be-
lieve that any young person j, So cruel
Is situated as not 70 he able 70 have ct
least fifteen minutes in the day which
She can call her own Be
gin then TO take that fifteen
minutes regularly. Let rs so to our
book or our periodical Just as promptly
as we 20 10 our dinner, and make for
ourselves as early as possible the habit
OF putting some reading regularly into
the programme of the day. DO not
think Of il as one of the things that can
be omitted. DO not be easily diverted
from it. 1t is habit that we wish to
Tx for all our coming life. There are
many habits which it is unfortunate to
form because nature continues TO make
demand for that which has been sup
piled But this habit of reading is one
Of the things for which we wish nature
70 make demand, and demand strong
enough 50 that it shall be felt all
through the busy years to come. Mary
Lowe Dickinson. in the Housewife