Every home should have a room large enough to accommodate the entire family, with easy chairs for each and a library table well laden with books and papers that will interest and instruct all, and the work of the child should be so planned and distributed, that each should have time to enjoy this room. The father and son, personally, select all reading matter, and allow nothing of a questionable nature to come into the home. Reading good books and papers is one of the greatest comforts that can come into one's life and those who have acquired that habit and enjoy that privilege, should do their utmost to extend it to others not so fortunate. While it is always best and easiest to teach the child to read when it is young, good reading placed in the hands of persons of any age is likely to bring good results, shown by the following story of experience in the great war:
The End of the Story,
After the war, say many observant prayers who have performed for soldiers audiences, and librarians who have handed out and talked over books with soldier readers, there is going to be a great leavening of the general public, a vast increase in the appreciation of what is worth while literature and drama, and of ability distinguish it from what is mere tricorn. Men to whom the best has been offered freely and who have once learned to enjoy it, they say will not content themselves with the strictly classic or the profoundly serious, but that they will have learned to criticize and discuss, as they will demand, a reasonable amount of art.  and sincerity in play, show or story, whether gay or serious. To keep the war has opened for the first time a new world of delight—men who have never had the chance to become acquainted with literature before. "You never know what often the most unexpected type will suddenly take to Masterpieces like duck in water," said O. E. H. 