Lower coast gazette., 1910-12-24
Odd Reading for Great Mind

he was surrounded with as large a
collection of very light reading as II
had been my fortune TO see In the pos
session of one person, other imam d
news agent, for many a moon. sup,
posed ! showed my astonishment. at
airy rate, Mr.. Carlisle smilingly re-
marked: You see | have some light
reading"
Il should hardly have thought Mr..
Carlisle" replied, that Ia man 0!
your professional and political ability
would find any pleasure in reading
publications devoted chiefly to the
summer girl and boy"
Well" laughed Mr.. Carlisle, Il dote
on EN-. I have secured a quiet place
up in the country, In a very quaint
nook on a hillside. Every evening
when ! start for this delightful rest
ing place, ! 60 to q news stand and
pick out the lightest kind Of reading
| can find, and on the train and after
supper is over, until midnight. some
times, | have a fine time reading. It's
the way | get my mental rest and rec
reation; it is the only way | get It,
You know. | take no interest in sports
of any kind: | don't even care about
horses, though | was born and bred
in old kentucky But give me light
reading-the frOthier the better-and
| am refreshed by it as other men are
renewed when they ride to hounds or
track the golf ball down.
And the worse the story the bet
ter ! am refrigerated, the easier | for
get the cares of life. Now, take this
story | have been reading. Listen to
this" and the great lawyer reeled
off a paragraph or two of as bad writ
ing as | had gained knowledge Of in
a long while. Isn't that delicious?
Do you wonder that the enjoyment |
get from perusing such literature
makes NE forget my professional
cares and gives me that complete
mental rest and recreation which
every man needs at some period of
the day?
and give me the short story, If
possible, and the thrilling detective
story, at that. ! am very fond of a
detective story, no matter what its lit
erary style or merit and no matter
what the plot. This magazine here
has a good one, from my point OF
view"-he held up a cheap periodical
-"and so has this one, All these
magazines you see about me I'll prob
ably finish with tonight, and then III
go to bed and sleep sOundly because
they've made me dismiss all profess
sional cares and worries from my
mind. | attribute no small portion Of
my good health to the fact that this
light reading brings me mental change
and sound sleep, for It IS a practise
that I have kept up for many years,
and it has never failed me-"
A few minutes later, the train hav-
ing reached my station, | babe Mr..
Carlisle goOdby. On my way from
the car I looked back, and already
Mr.. Carlisle was Immersed in the
pages of an all-story periodical notori-
Gus for the freshness Of its contents
the same John G. Carlisle who had
delivered one Of the most profound
speeches ever made upon the tariff
upon the floor Of the house of repre-
sentatives; who had been speaker Of
the house Of representatives for three
terms. United States senator, and sec
rotary of the treasury, and whom
Grover Cleveland thought so much of
that he hoped to see him nominated
for president by the Democracy in
1856.
Copyright. 1910, by f. J. Edwards. All
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