REGULATE THE READING.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 759, 8 September 1922, Page 2

REGULATE THE READING.

It is a very bad plan to allow children to read overmuch. Some children if they are given a book wilLsit curled up in a chair all day long reading it. The habit is exceedingly bad for the eyesight. While children are growing they should be encouraged to run about and stretch their limbs out of school hours, as ordinary lessons are quite enough strain on the child’s eyes and mind. When boys and girls are older, too, it is not wise to encourage overmuch reading. A child who reads too much sometimes ceases after a time to have any originality cf thought, and, without knowing it, is always voicing as his own the opinion lie had read in one or the other of his books. THE RADIUM UNDER3ODICE. In addition to the front and back views of this lightening-spced made nodice, our artist has also shown the shape as it looks when cut out. \ It is wonderfully simple to make, and will fit most all figures. There is a speciality about the shoulder that conduces to its perfect adjustment. If fastens on each shoulder with one but-

ton and buttonhole. Consequently i\ depends upon the wearer’s choice of [whether she prefers a wide or a narrow arm hole. It is also most useful to ladies who go out much in the evening and wear very low bodices —the button can be unfastened and tin shoulder left uncovered. Independently of embroidery or feather stitching, if plainly made can be produced in half an hour; fyd. 30-inch. LONG ENGAGEMENTS. Love’s young dream, unduly postponed in its realisation of its ultimate endimf in marriage, is apt to become commonplace and lose much of the charm and romance that should surround the days of courtship.

Lost Bliss The victims of too-long courtships, even when marriage does come, arcrobbed of much ideal bliss by reasc*. of a too familiar and prolonged intercourse resultant of a lengthy engage tnent. Youthful Marriages. Are not to be commended unless both parties have known each other sufficiently long enough to be sure tTiat it is a love that is for each other and not for gold, position or social advantage. Even then, when their parents think there are circumstances wherein it would be hotter to wait awhile, it is wiser to look facts in the face than to shut the eyes and afterward regret the blindness of their own making. Marriage a Lottery'. Whenever any one begins to discuss the marriage question and says, ‘ Marriages aro made in Heaven,” there is quite enough evidence amongst the the generality of married couples to ask which Heaven? If Heaven is within us, it goes without saying that there must- be a union of tastes, nicely j Wended temperaments and proper ar- ! fangemenU provided for the housing j of “Two Boars’’—-the bear and the foi- j bear—otherwise Heaven is not at hand, j but#ery far off. Now, girls, you need to look before you leap: A well-educat-ed, evenly-balanced, clear-headed 20th century girl ought to show more common sense in accepting a partner feu life, that the divorce court recitals given by our daily press reveals. High Ideals. \ Marriage 'is undoubtedly an ideal j state, where the parties concerned are mated as well as married. The moral is: : J3e engaged long enough to judge the character of your Adonis, but not to< long to wear all the sentiment threadbare, for when that happens ideality is supplanted by the commonplace, and there is an end of it. I'ov our vtr---rue of failure Urns , ; ily and make a