The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-11-24
D NOV. "a, 1911
Good Winter Reading

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Winter is coming on and there
will be long nights and consider
able time especially on the farms
when men and women including
both old and the young can gather
and should gather for their mutual
benefit, social development, and
for the purpose of planning and
pe%rfecting plans for another years
work. Besides this, there will be
much time for reading, not only
the reading of current news matter
and newspapers, but general read.
ing that can be pursued for both
pleasure and profit.
There is too much of mere read
ing for the sake of having read,
that is to say. reading without
much consideration and reading
without digesting that which one
reads. There should be more ear
taken in reading and more use
made out of that which one reads,
aud this can be done by simply
paying more attention to that
which one reads, and considering
it better than is usual with most
readers and most people. There is
a lack perhaps OF analysis of that
which most people read, the analy-
sis that gives the reason and digs
out the depth and beauty of Thought
that is embodied in liturature and
in current newspaper matter. Then
again people neglect and forget to
go back and read the old standard
works written when men and wo-
men reasoned deeper perhaps than
the masses are reasoning today,
and when the poems that were then
written were written more by inspir-
alton than they are at the present
time. The old standard and familiar
poems have depth of thought, great
or reasoning in them, and the NOV
ing spirit of pathos of love, rever-
ence, and inspiration. Many of
the poems of today are but loosely
connected words, with but very
little life or depth to them, and of
a kind and character that do not
move the deep human emotions,
nor build up towards greater spir-
itual power and inspiration.
Reading can be pursued much
of the time ON the farm, for in
ance in the family circle by select.
ing the best reader and have him
or her read aloud to the rest IF the
family and then resting at times
and discussing and analysing what
has been read. Where all of the
family are good readers, or a num-
Der of them. the work of
reading should be shifted about,
and the burden divided up. Read
ing aloud is good exercise for the
reader. and makes a: much deeper
and more lasting impression of
that which is read than reading to
oneself without reading aloud.
All men and women from their
youthful days up should be stud
ents, and being a student means
digging into thing and reasoning.
Reasoning and digging into things
means mental concentration, and
mental concentration cannot be
had without more or less analytic
al sense and power, and the Guilt
walton of a liking for reasoning and
analysis.
The matter of reading and the
matter of keeping alive the home
circle, and making the winter
months pass rapidly and happily,
is something that is of much great.
or importance and greater weight
than has been given to it in this
pioneer country in the past, and
by most Of the people. The
Search Light urges upon the PEG
pie in their homes andmore espec-
tally in the farm homes the neces-
sity and the pro6totRood reading,