The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-01-31
HOME READING COURSE NO. S.

GA certificate, bearing the seal of the
United States Bureau of Education,
signed by the commissioner of educa-
ton, will be given to each girl who
gives satisfactory evidence OF having
read all the books on the accompany
ing list)
In our schools boys and girls learn to
read, and those who are fortunate en-
ough to attend school of the best type
form the habit of reading, learn to dis
tinguish good books from bad and
worthless books, and acquire a taste
for the best. Others are less fortunate
and finish or quit school with little
knowledge of books, with no we'll
established habits of reading and with
out a sure and discriminating taste.
For most American girls school life
is short, school hours are few, and
there is little time in school for general
reading. At best, the schools can give
them only the ability to read-to I'M
derstand through the eye and to inter
pref the printed page. The actual
reading, beyond the school lessons,
must be done at home and most of it
after school days are over; for this
most American girls have much
time.
1t is true also that reading is most
profitable to those who, at the same
time, are gaining knowledge through
the actual and ordinary experience of
life and home and industrial occupa-
tions
Must Be Worker.
We learn by doing. Experience is
the great educator. We learn by doing
only when the doing is intelligent. Ex-
rerience educates only when it is
understood, and it is most educative
only when it becomes the means
periences of others, adding them to
our own and thus enriching our lives
beyond the possibility of our own per-
sonal experiences.
The learner must ever be a worker
and the worker should ever be learn
er. This leads to all-sided intelligence,
fullness Of life, happiness and useful
ness.
The books recommended in this
course are chosen with view to the
duties and responsibilities that most
girls must meet and assume in life,
and with a consideration for their
practical value in helping girls to learn
the things they need to know, which
can be learned most easily through
reading.
A good book should be read more
than once, and every girl should own
some Of the books that she reads.
Books are cheap, and money paid for
them is well invested and will pay
large dividends in life and happiness
and even in money
Most cities and towns in the United
States and some country communities
have good public libraries, and many
public schools both in city and coun.
i try have good collections. Every com.
munity in which boys and girls live
| should have a public library with all
! the books of this list and many others
in it.
If there is no such a library in you,
community in the schools or elsewhere
then you should get all the girls to
work with you and not rest until there
is one
/ To any one who gives evidence OF
having read all the books in this list
certificate will be awarded bearing
the seal of the United States Bureau
of Education and signed by the com
missioner of education.
The home education division of the
| bureau of education, will as far as
possible, answer questions about the
subject matter of the books from
those who are registered for this
course.
For admission to the circle of read
/ ers it is necessary only to write tc
the Home Education Division of the
Bureau of Education, Washington. D
c., giving your name and postoffice
address, your age and brief state
ment of your education and occupa
ton. 1t is not necessary that the
books be read in the order given
They should all be read. however
within three years from the time yol
register.
Reading Course No. S.
1. Alice in Wonderland. Lewis
Carroll (pseud).
2. Birds Christmas Carol. Kate
Douglas Wiggin.
g. Little Women. Louisa NJ. Al
colt.
4. Pride and Prejudice. Jane Aus
| ten.
! 5. The Jungle Book Rudyard Kip
ling
6. David Copperfield Charles Dick
ems.
7. Lorna Doone. r. H. Blackmore