Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1875 — The Habit of Reading. [ARTICLE]

The Habit of Reading.

“ I hate no time to read,” is the common complaint, and especially of women, whose occupations are such as to prevent continuous book perusal. They seem to think because they cannot devote as much attention to books as they are compelled to devote avocations that they cannot read anything. But this is a great mis. take. It isn’t the books we finish at a sitting which always do us the most good. Those we devour in the odd moments, half a dozen pages at a time, often give us more satisfaction and are more thoroughly digested than those we make a particular effort to read. The men who have made their mark in the world have generally been the men who have in boyhood formed the habit of reading at every available moment, whether for five min utes or five hours. It is the habit of reading rather than the time at our command that helps us on the road to learning. Many of the most cultivated persons whose names have been famous as students have given only two or three hours a day to their books. If we make use of spare minutes in the midst of our work, and read a little, if but a page or a paragraph, we shall find our brains quickened and our toil lightened by just so much increased satisfaction as the book gives us. Nothing helps along the monotonous daily round so much as fresh and striking thoughts, to be considered while our hands are busy. A new idea from a new volume is like oil which reduces the friction of the machinery of life. What we remember from brief glimpses into books often serves as a stimulus to action and becomes one of the most precious deposits in the treasury of our recollection. All knowledge is made up of small parts, which would seem insignificant in themselves but which, taken together, are valuable weapons for the mind and substantial armor for the soul. “ Read anything continuously,” says Dr.* Johnson, “ and you will be learned.” The odd minutes which we are inclined to waste, if carefully availed of for instruction, will, in the long run, make golden hours and golden days that we shall be ever thankful for. — Scribner's Monthly.

For midsummer use, the pretty linen lawns are the sweetest and coolest. They are found in imported stripes, cross-bars and large plaids, to suit all tastes. Vinegar Bitters. —The great merit of Vinegar Bitters has made them the leading medicine of the day, and respectable druggists everywhere write: “They are the best and most popular preparation in the market." They have stood the test of public opinion and won confidence. They, sell rapidly because.they cure.' If you are sick you want reliable medicine. Vinegar Bitters commend themselves to the ailing and afflicted, as they are deficient in one thing alone, viz.: the stimulant that unduly excites the brain and creates a morbid thirst for spirits! There is no phase of Indigestion, Biliousness, Nervous Disease, or Physical Debility in which they will not effect a cure. Invalids who are wasting away from a want of proper action in the liver, stomach and bowels will find them a constitutional specific and a fountain of vitality and vigor as refreshing and exhilarating as a cool, gushing spring of water to the parched and fainting tr aveler in the desert. 41

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