post-office waiting his turn for the mail, utilized the time by studying
Greek from a little pocket grammar." "Mary Somerfield, the astronomer,
while busy with her children in the nursery, wrote her 'Mechanism of
the Heavens,' without neglecting her duties as a mother." "Julius Caesar,
while a military officer and politician found time to write his Commentaries
known throughout the world." William Cobbett says: "I learned grammar
when I was a private soldier on a six-pence a day. The edge of my guard-
bed was my seat to study in, my knapsack was my bookcase, and a board
lying on my lap was my desk. I had no moment at that time that I could
call my own; and I had to read and write among the talking, singing,
whistling, and bawling of at least half a score of the most thoughtless of
men." Among those whom we all know who have risen out of obscurity
to eminence through a wise economy of time which they have used in
reading and study, are, Patrick Henry, Benjamin West, Eli Whitney, James
Watt, Richard Baxter, Roger Sherman, Sir Isaac Newton, and Benjamin
Franklin.



VII.

SOCIAL RECREATION.

DEFINED.


The normal young person who does not dissipate is bursting with
life. The natural child is activity embodied. The healthful old person
craves exercise. Life, activity, exercise, each must have some method
of spending itself. Some normal method, some right method, some