Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1917 — SALMON MAKES GOOD FOOD LET BEST FRIENDS BE BOOKS [ARTICLE]

SALMON MAKES GOOD FOOD

LET BEST FRIENDS BE BOOKS

Much Comfort Found in Them for the Lonely and One in the Evening of Life.— - In passing days of our lives, when the fires of- passion have been well burned out; when we have come face to face with the vicissitudes of life and find out that we have either won or lost the battle, let our best friends be books, observes a writer in the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. We can commune with them so long as we please, and when we are tired, wq can shut them up. This is more than we can do with our friends of the human faintly. When a man comes home at night harassed and hacked with the worries of life, he wants not only rest for *the body; he wants rest for his soul, for his heart, for his mind. The wife who hopes to develop in the home a perfect atmosphere of content, will study her husband’s moods. When he is worried ; when his mind is a bit distraught and he desires mental rest, he will read. There is a wonderful amount of consolation In our books. Sometimes he may yield to light literature. At other times he will place his thoughts on more sincere and heavy topics. Our books are- ourrealfriends.-’Tt does not make a bit of difference how sick a-man ma y be, if he will have read to him a chapter or two of “Pickwick Papers,” he will smile. Read your little one just a page or two of “Little Men” or of “Little Women’’ and see the rest that will spread over his face, that beautiful expression of soothed pain. Let anyone who Is In trouble, and who has no friend, gather himself In solitude with a good book. There is much consolatlon in it. It has that unexplainable source of relief. It is like the tender touch of a woman’s hand on a parched and fevered brow. It rests the mind, it brings for the time being at least surcease to sorrow.