Fort Wrangel news., 1898-08-31
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 Probably Yau tanW uer yourself shp dips iHfs yeuf guezf raeni s8me day. With the promising 8ssHraace Now. L lon't want t4 be made amuauy uf Just let mr te one of thr family and book out tor myself"
 You are busy woman and you eon- gratulate yourself that your hospitality Is to be extended fo ole of your sex who k capable uf making her stay something beside nervous struln on the part af yourself as hostess and your household In general
 You have fitted up that guest room of yours with especial reference 10 tho hoped-for bookish tastes of lis oeeu- pants. There Is a goodly assortment of current literature scattered about. Be Ing reader yourself. you can imagine nothing more dellghtsome than an op- portunity for cozy eonpanlonshlp with the lntest magazine or novel.
 You dellcately Hllude to your thought fulness in providing the, to you, liter ary feasts und suggest to your guest that she take her pick of all that the family library contains, and then-well, then comes the disilluslonment.
 Never while that woman Is in your house do you catch her with book or paper In her hand. Days when you run short of amusements for her she wanders aimlessly about from room to room; Is plainly Respondent over bad weather and sets all your hospitnble in- stincts 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 q healthy appetite for good literature Is IS necessary for mental nourishment 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- tivated in the nursery. As soon as children are able to pick out the words In their primers they should be taught to consider that more enjoyment Is to be found between the covers of book than among ull the toys and gimcracks that clutter up the playroom. No need to make bookworms of them, but | 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 incal- culable benefit.
 Laziness Is usually the foundation for the childish request. Please read to me- provided the youthful petitioner is able to read to himself. The same oblig- ing grandmother OF gracious aunt who Is always ready to do the youngsters bidding In thIs direction is also respon- sible for the fad of spinning nursery yarns to listeners who are old enough and schooled enough to cull their own 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 eN- acted from the average child.
 There would be fewer restless men and certainly fewer discontented 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