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taken back to the rural community and used to the 

 advantage of the latter. 



Also, what about the literature in the home ? 

 Although a chapter has already been given to the 

 matter, for the sake of emphasizing its great impor- 

 tance it is again referred to here. Why not see to it 

 that there be secured a few enticing volumes of the 

 clean and uplifting sort ? A very few dollars will 

 furnish the nucleus of a library of which the boy will 

 soon become proud. Ask the school superintendent 

 or teacher to make out a list of ten of the best books 

 for your boy and then secure these at once. Bring 

 into the home also one or two of the best standard 

 magazines and keep constantly on the table one or 

 more of the best and cleanest newspapers. Then, see 

 to it that the boy's life be not so nearly dragged out 

 during the day's work that he cannot spend thirty 

 minutes or more of each evening at the reading table. 



DEVELOP AN INTEREST IN HUMANITY 



All education is for the sake of human welfare. 

 The thing learned like the material thing possessed 

 is most worth while in proportion as it serves some 

 high human purpose or need. There is abundant 

 opportunity to teach the country boy that education 

 cannot well exist for its own sake or purely for one's 

 own selfish uses. So it is well early to awaken the 

 youth's interest in people. Have him compare his 

 own lot with that of others in very different circum- 



