Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1919 — IN SPARE MOMENTS [ARTICLE]

IN SPARE MOMENTS

Klrke learned Greek while walking to and fro from a lawyer’s office. A celebrated physician in London translated Lucretius while riding in his carriage upon his dally rounds. Dagnesseau, one of the chancellors of France, wrote an able and bulky work in the successive Intervals of waiting for dinner. Elihu Burritt, while earn' ig his living as a blacksmith, learned eighteen languages and twenty-two dialects by simply Improving “odd moments.” Darwin composed nearly all of his works in the same way, writing down his thoughts in a memorandum book which he carried for the purpose. Madam de Genlis composed several of her charming volumes while waiting la the schoolroom for the tardy princess to whom she gave daily lessons.