Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1894 — Boys and Books. [ARTICLE]

Boys and Books.

“You have done a great thing when you have brought a boy to have entertainment from a book,” observes Dr. Johnson; and whoever has had the training of young folk, t .ipecially of yeuths who did not naturally take kindly to reading, is likely to agree with him most fully. Certainly the most essential and often the most difficult part of a boy’s education is just the point of teaching to care for reading. Once that Is done, the hardest of the battle is over. It is a careless or a dull parent who cannot do much fora boy’s mind if once, he has got him to be fond of reading. It is after that a question of guidance; and, If they are not driven, there Is little that cannot be done In the way of guidance when one is training boys.