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Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes by J. M. Judy
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WHEN TO READ.

First, read at regular hours. This is for those who follow literary
pursuits. No professional person should respect himself in his work
who has no special time for reading and study, and who does not
conscientiously adhere to it. The pulpit, the law-office, the doctor's
office, the teacher, and the editor's desk, each clamors for the man, the
woman, who can think. To appreciate God and to sympathize with
the human heart; to know law and the intricate special case; to understand
disease and relief for the suffering patient; to have something to teach
and to know how to teach it even to the dullest pupil; to know human
character and to be able to enlighten the public mind and the public
conscience; all this requires in the one who serves a deep and growing
knowledge and experience which may be realized only in the grasp of
truth contained in the up-to-date and best authorized books. The use
of books with this class of persons is not optional. They must buy and
master them, or a few years at longest will relegate them with their old
books and ideas to the dusty garret where they belong.

Then, many must read on economized time. The farmer, the mechanic,
the merchant, the shopkeeper, each may find a little time for daily reading.
Ten minutes saved in the morning, ten minutes in the afternoon, and ten
minutes in the evening, this is half hour a day. In a week this gives one
three hours and a half, in a month fourteen hours of solid reading, and
in a year one will have read seven days of twenty-four hours each. Think
of what may be accomplished in an average lifetime in common reading
by the busiest person, who really wants to read. "Schliemann," the
noted German scholar and author, "as a boy, standing in line at the
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