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s ! vexations incident to the employc tment of domestics.rrConsider, therefore, what kind obooks you read. There is so much thate is good, instructive and interesting t(s choose Irom. Do not make the miso take, often made, that the very learnevwriters are dull and prosy. Thirk oe Milton’s L'Allegro, or II Penserosis being dull! And what surpasses tht□ freshness of Lord Bacon’s essays ?j Froude's history of England has a!e the sparkle and absorbing interest o1 the best novel. We leave a mark ais our place and lay it aside till the nexevening with regret.The papers and books on scienceare many, the themes never so inters esting and instructive as now.It is a very good thing to read bjtopics; in this way we get thing*1 rooted in our minds. We may makef out ot history, poetry, romance ancbiography all in one, relieving it of al the tedium with which it is generally5 supposed to be invested5 If we are too tired and haven’t anew dress to go visiting in; what deilight we may find in the lives andcharacters of famous men and women.Society’s kings and queens who willalways give us audience. Some writerhas talked about “the art of judiciousskipping” in readings.“When you find what you want,pounce upon it, whether it is in thelast, middle or first chapter. It is notnecessary to begin at the beginning ofjthe world. Begin right in the verymiddle of things, whenever you areinterested, and read out. When youhave got out, you will want to turnaround and read in again, to the placeyou began. Gibbon read from severalbooks at once ;” we may do the sameto advantage. “Everything must hangon to something else, and have something else hanging on to it.”If you don’t know all you w^ant, andexactly what you want, ask yourfriends. Make a note of importantthings, things which you wish especially to remember. This very writing! down will fix them in your minds.Right here we want to urge the importance of saving a little money eachweek or month with which to purchasebooks. A substantial book will last aIlife-time. Children and children’schildren may be benefitted by the libraries we are gathering now. Thereis a world of culture in a good encyclopedia. We could afford to do without lace curtains awhile longer for thesake of having one in the family. Ourboys and girls in school ought toha\eone for daily reference.Every young couple ought to beginwith a few' standard books as a nucleus for a library. Leave one ply olfthe carpet, if necessary, and take aplainer style in sofas and chairs. Longafter the best sofas and chairs aregone the books will remain.But, perhaps, you don’t like to reador think it a waste of time. Well, ifwe don’t like to read, we ought to cultivate a taste for it. Depend upon it.that knowledge gained, increases ourusefulness in every respect. We dowaste time in over making our dressesand over-trimming our children’s garments, but never in good reading.Ye over-worked and care-worn wro-men draw up an easy chair at lamp-J see if Hawthorne, V ictorHugo or Walter Scott will not makey'ou forget your burdens! I know amother who rocks her baby to sleepwith ? book in one hand. The habitDt the mother is the habit of the child,le will not go to sleep unless sheakcs up a book. It is for the child*en's sakeice must make the most of our-selves. A mother is more of a motherbecause of this culture and this insightnto books. “Every mother has aright to time for mental and spiritualievelopment as really as she has aight to sunshine and air and to foodind sleep.* %We must be the intellectual andspiritual companions of our children.r else we have lost hall our influence.a mother loves reading and study he children will take'an enthusiasticinterest in these things.Macauley, after one cf his greatspeeches, said: I owe all to my dearmother and to the interest which shealways took in my childish successes.”A mother must not be a negative element in the formation of her child’s Icharacter. It is one of the most pitiful sights we can imagine to see sucha mother. To realize the importanceof her work as a mother, a mothermust read, then she must herself studveach child’s peculiar disposition andadapt her methods and theories to itswants. We must be well acquaintedwith our own children; we must knowtheir outgoings and incomings, andwe must direct them in the choice ofwhat they read.And then what a help a cultivatedand intelligent wife may be to a husband in public life.1 know there is a popular delusionthat gifted women do not make goodwives and mothers. Why, one of theneatest, brightest and best kept homesof which I know is presided over by■a regular blue stocking. It is almost*
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Kokomo Saturday Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Sat, Jan 24, 1880
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