Proves are going to be so interested Twill have to
drive vou lo hed.”
Afother, what about us girls?
tidy books? [get enough of
mirrnipted Iaith.
“1 like biographies and poetry,
therm to us! exelmmed Hope.
“Nother. tough, but IT like to read love
“tories sometimes,” added Faith.
“Yer, vou shall have sone poetry amd love
of the right kind, but our reading must not <imiply
inchide stores and poetry,
which 1s hike dessert to
thee mined. but we nnst read =ome bool
Must we read only
them at school,”
if vou will read
don't
stories
that will
add to our knowledge and give strength and wisdom
fo the hram.”
“Mother, we never
when we go to the library,
fell us to get are out, and
n= read.”
know what books to draw
Sometimes the ones vou
then we bring home one
vou wordt et
Fayrny INTEREST
Books von
“Well, that 1s one of the reasons we are going to
have a reading club so you enn lean what ix good
reaching. Arnel then Iwas given alist of 1,500 hooks
that has been prepared just for this very purpose fo
help mothers and boys and eivls im deerding what to
these books we will read mmoonr
fo us all; those we wall resud
together. Then there will be hooks that will interest
vou boys only, and others that will interest only the
twins, 1 wish io =tart or club New Year's Foe,
To, T know vou want to nuke our home peaceful
and poy: that as the most important thing we as a
family have to doo Making Home Happy.” aod
Nking Tome Peaceful” ave the titles of two books
we will read together on Sabbath, will oll
to read, Everyday Good Manners for
which lists rules that eve rv hoy and enrl
to be courteous in the hore, If
have no fear
choose, Some of
chicks will Be of mterest |
Then we
wand dows
and Cipls,”
must know m order
vou have home politeness, |
company politeness”
New Year's meht found this Little family
gathered together to oreanmize their reading club,
“Well, here we are!
as whe tikled
gathered around her
vend to von this elean,
called:
ahold
Grou
exclaimed mother ima cheery
iittle bell, and the children
choir. The first thine I'l
fresh New Year i= a
Loge,
DOCH
Toe Fasiny
“The family is Bike a book:
The children are the Jeaves:
The parents are the covers
That protecting beauty give.
“At Hirst the { the hook
Are blank ou pure amd far:
But time soon writeth memories
And puinteth pictures there.
pages of
PAGE POURTEEN
“Love = the litte golden elasp
That bindeth up the book.
Oh. breal it nor, Test all the leaves
Should =eqtiered He and lost,”
hi
Children, let's commit this poem to memory; jl
will help us to make our actions each day record
some memory we will Tove to think baek upon, wd
pant a pieture of a home full of happiness and love,
“Now, children, in our reading, we must also read
hooks on eivies; they teil of ower duty
nwunity in which we live, to the school,
and butlldings, The Bible tells us that no man liveil,
to himself alone: in every act of our lives we nase
to the com-
I= gronnds
think, "How will this affect someone else?”
“Now for our story, or dessert, tomght. I am
going to read from “Little Men® by Louise Mav
Aleott, who was wu friend of Emerson and the poets
Whittier and Longfellow. When this is finished we
will read Little Women,” the companion hook.
‘Little Men ix the story of a German professor and
his wife who have opened their large home to a
group of boys whont they hope to help. They take
the place of futher and mother to them. Nat is
new boy mother Bhaer 1s vine to make happy in
his new home, and this tells how they spend the
Sabbath, This 1s how the hook describes it:
“This som Sabbath closet)” showing Nat shelves
filled with picture hooks, paint boxes, architectural
blocks, little diaries, and material for letter-writing,
Towant my bovs to love the Sabbath and to find 1a
peaceful, pleasani ; ay, - at day when they can rest
from common study an play, vel enjoy quiet
pleasures and learn in snmple wavs lessons more hn-
portant than any taueht in =chool, Do you imder-
<tand me!” chime Nat's attentive fee,
You mean to be good?”
she asked, wat
A Paar ror Facu Poy
“Ys and Lo Tove fo be cond. 11 0s
hard work sometimes, T know very well, bat we all
another and =o we eet on, This ix one
of the way= in whieh I try to help ray hove,” and she
took down a thick hook whieh seenied half full
writing smd opened at a page on which there wis one
word at the top,
“Why, that’s my name,”
surprised aud interested.
“Yes, have a page for each boy, 1 keep account
of how he gets on through the week and Friday
night I =how him the record. If tis bad, Tam sorry
and disappointed; if itis good, Tani glad and proud,
Sut whichever the record may be, the hove know 1
want to help them, and they toy todo their hest for
love of me and father Bhuer. Our boys all love
Sabbath afternoon, when our family has returned
from church and dinner is over. Every one rests,
reads, or plays his favorite hymns, At three, all wo
(Concluded on page 160)
to be aon
try to help on
cried Nat, looking both
HOME AND SCHOOL