READING AT HOME.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1268, 7 May 1883, Page 3

READING AT HOME.

All young people should aspire to I tie godd readers. With Ordinary? vocal equipment they may be. To arrive at that, there must be habitual pr&iioe. Beading aloud for the benefit «t the home circle is an accomplishment of the many, and in practical reatdfe it is as much superior to music eyen \as it .is acquired at. smaller cost. The mail who by the evening lamp ahmsw. with his family the good things, in the fresh newspaper or magazine, while his wife and daughters, mast keep to the mending or other quiet oobapatibn, supplement .the day's bread- wmning with, ; scarjeoly less im 1 portan^ nottrisbing.of the intellectual natttre, -The boys and girls should be encouraged to 'read aloud for the general; entertainment Many a delightful and profitable hour will be thus spent which will add to the fund of information andhto dear remerobrances in coming years ihey f^^WWefeifed.' By^ana-by when eyes grow- dim and their «WBji^(l, bo that the world's doing? ax9 h^dly zoore to them . than as the pe^iip^* d«spitcl^ to the bird on the "* niitoly son or gentle' lovinjf*^d4ti|;ltfer may 'freshen and fci^]sra*.i^ the written pftge. And who pf us. but baa atjsoitid time iin the home .or social •irel* an inYalid to whom an hour's :; .laxiiry"'*aboye' any-