Reading Aloud.
A veiiy ploasant habit for home life is that of reading aloud some pleasant book in the evenings, and if the selection of the book is wise it certainly makes the home circle veiy attractive, and lightens the drudgery of the mother, who often sito after tea with her basket of stockings to be darned, and who has a dreary time if each member of the family who does not pro out takes his paper or book, and subtides into his own interesting reading, leaving the mother to her own meditations. A book read aloud at home gets a charm apart from itself sometimes ; its very name will conjure np in our memories scenes in the far past — the pleasant family circle, then, perhapp, unbroken : the cheerful fireside, and frequently, too, the comments upon what is being read, .which add to the interest, and give a newer insight. The same association applies to a piece of wotk which is in operation while any book is being read.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2084, 14 November 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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169Reading Aloud. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2084, 14 November 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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