The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-08-20
A TASTE FOR READING.
Benefits Derived from a Fondness OF
Good Literature.

OoOd Literature
Ask any hostess of your acquaint.
ance what type of guest she has found
the hardest to entertain during pro-
tracted visit. and she Will answer, THE
woman who never reads" says writer
in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Probably you know her yourself. She
slips into your guest room some day,
with the promising assurance, Now.
don't want to be made company of. Just
let me be one of the family and look
out for myself"
You are busy woman, and you con-
graduate yourself that your hospitality
is to be extended TO one of your sex
who Is capable of making her stay
something beside a nervous strain on
the part of yourself as hostess and your
household in general.
You have fitted up that guest room of
yours with especial, reference TO the
hoped-for .booklsh tastes of Its oecu-
pants. There Is goodly assortment of
current literature scattered about. Be
ing a reader yourself, you can Imagine
nothing more delightsome than an OPP
portunlty for cozy companionship with
the latest magazine or novel.
You delicately allude to your thought
fulness In providing the, to you, liter
airy feastss and suggest to your guest
that she take her pick of all that the
family library contains. and then-well,
then comes the establishment.
Never while that, woman Is In your
house do you catch her with a book or
paper In her hand Days when you
run short of amusements for her she
wanders almlessly about from room TO
room: Is plainly Respondent over bad
weather and sets all your hospitable In
stinets on edge by the ill-concealed fact
that she is bored.
oh" you sigh. IF she would only
read. Just to see her fifteen minutes
of the day with her eyes fastened inter-
estedly upon some bit of printed mat
ter"
A taste for reading may be as surely
cultivated as any other taste, and a
healthy appetite for good literature is
as good food is for physical well-being.
To get right to the root of the mat
ter, the reading habit needs to be cul-
tlyated In the nursery. As soon as
children are able 10 pick out the words
in their primers they should be taught
to consider that more enjoyment Is TO
be found between the covers OF a book
than among all the toys and glmcracks
that clutter up the playroom. No need
to make book worms of them, but a
tactful mother may implant the read
ing Idea Into the juvenile mind and SO
carefully nurture 1t that in after years
It will bear intellectual fruits of meal
culable benefit.
Lazlness Is usually the foundation for
the childish request. please read 10
me-" provided the youthful petitioner is
able to read to himself. The same oblig-
ing grandmother or gracious aunt who
is always ready TO do the youngsters
bidding In this direction is also respon-
sble for the fad of spinning nursery
yarns to listeners who are old enough
anu scuooieu ehoukHto SuAA thNh w
tales from books.
When there is no personal application
on the child's part how can there be any
mental stimulus? No wonder we find
so many insipid. vacillating minds
among grownups when we remember
how little thought concentration Is ex-
acted from the average child.
There would be fewer restless men
and certainly fewer discontinued wom-
en- If the reading habit was made fea-
ture of nursery training.
Fortunate is the man or woman who
has discovered in books that world
which will widen the most contracted
sphere and glorify the most common
place existence.-Boston Herald.