The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-01-20

a desire TO read. i o 90 CnlS one mus
begin when they are quite qoung, ex
ercise good judgment and patienc,
and find time each day to help the
child get interested. The best time
to begin is before they learn to read
get a child's book with interesting
pictures and short stories and whe1
you have time to sit down for few
minutes, show the pictures and read
the stories to the child. Allow it tt
take the book and look at the pictures
and it will soon be so interested that
it will come and want you to read
about the pictures that please it most.
| After the child starts to school in
terest in its school books and lessons
must be stimulated, but the mother
should not forget to continue reading
to it we'll chosen line of short stories
that will be interesting and restful,
and if possible, helpful in its studies.
Select the stories with care, along
| lines which seem to interest the child
most and you will soon find a grow
ing desire for reading, and for the
kind Of reading matter you have sup
piled.
Every one should be supplied with
good books, magazines and papers
that will interest, entertain and in
/ struct every member of the family.
For the children there are many good
ones, such as ST. Nicholas and the
Youths Companion; the latter is one
of the very best papers published. 1t
is not merely "Y outh's Companion"
as the name implies, but companion
for every member of the household.
Its children's page with its short fun
ny stories and pictures delight the
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joy and appreciate its longer STORIES;
its clean, true stories of out door
life, adventure and college life and
sports are just what the older boys
and girls need and it's bright, crisp
and optimistic editorials, accurate and
dependable current events are inter
esting and profitable reading for all
the family. An able editor of a paper
with more than a million circulation
recently said of it:
"When the Editor was youth he
read the Youths Companion. When
he had children of his own they also
enjoyed the Companion. Now that he
talks every month to more than a
million fathers and mothers, he takes !
pleasure in recommending to them |
the Youths Companion. He has i
never found an Objectionable article |
in it's columns. He reads it today /
with interest and profit"
1t is more difficult to interest boys
in reading than it is girls, due per-
naps to their outdoor life. Not all /
the burden of training children to
read should fall upon the mother;
fathers too should do their share.
Boys are quite likely to inherit the
traits of the father. If the father
likes to read, so much the better, as
he boy will more readily take to it.
# parents in their youth did not have
IN opportunity to read the best, when
hey have family of their own they
should read only the best as an ex-
nipple to their children.
Every home should have a room
arge enough to accommodate the en- !
ire family, with easy chairs for each
md a library table we'll laden with
cooks and papers that will interest :
md instruct all, and the work of the
ono shorld be so planned and dis :
ributed, that each should have time |
o enjoy this room. The father and
snonld personally select all
eading matter, and allow nothing of :
questionable nature to come into r
ne home. Reading good books and
apers is one of the greatest COM
orts that can come into ones life
nd those who have acquired that
abit and enjoy that privilege, should r
0 their utmost to extend it to others
OF so fortunate While it is always =
est and easiest to teach the child to r
lad when it is young, good reading
aced in the hands of persons Of any =
ge is likely to bring good results, =
) shown by the following story of
sperience in the great war: :
The End of the Story. A
After the war, say many observant
ayers who have performed for SOL =
er audiences, and librarians who A
I've handed out and talked over
,oks with soldier readers, there is =.
,ing to be great leavening of the y
preciation of what is worth while
literature and drama, and of ability !,
distinguish it from what is mere II
cious Men to whom the best has
en- offered freely and who have once -
armed to enjoy it, they say, will not r.
contented in the future with trash.
1T, of course, that their taste will -
cept only the strictly classic or the &c
ofoundly serious, but that they will
We learned to criticize and discuss, =
d to demand a reasonable amount of
and sincerity in play, show or NJ
Try, whether gay or serious. To nd
men the war has opened for
e first time new world of de-
ht-men who have never had the -
ance to become acquainted with lit
ature before. "You never know -
the most unexpected typel q.
will suddenly take to masterpieces
e a duck to water" said one Ii =
arian. "Why, one day great,
avy-jawed, stolid-looking giant dis -
yered Dickens, and, believe me, that C.
n simply went on a Dickens spree
: two weeks! He would sit around -
rgling and chuckling, or with tears
ming down the sides Of his nose, -
he would slap his knees and roar Sc
h laughter; he didn't care what he
|, or who poked fun at him, or -
ere he was, and he'd forget meals
anything. He hasn't fully recov- -
d yet, but he's past the delirious DI
re VOL, might saw"