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record. When the record is set in motion, the needle 

 follows the fine wavy line and is made to vibrate to cor- 

 respond with the vibrations of the original sound waves. 

 These vibrations are communicated to the diaphragm, and 

 this causes sound waves in the air, which come to us as 

 reproductions of the original sound. 



Good reading and what it means. We have already said 

 that life is made up of bundles of habits. We form habits 

 by doing things when quite young, and you are now at an 

 age when you can form them most easily. Why not use 

 some of the time you spend in recreation in getting the 

 habit of reading good books and good magazines? Far 

 too many boys and girls limit their reading to the daily 

 newspaper or some of the various cheap weekly and 

 monthly magazines. Life will be far richer to you if in- 

 stead of feeding your mind upon trash, you use something 

 which will be of use to you later. It is simply a matter 

 of habit whether you read a number of poorly written 

 stories with very little of real interest in them, or whether 

 you form the habit of reading books that are really worth 

 while. What could be more absorbing, for example, than 

 Stevenson's " Kidnapped " or " Treasure Island," Scott's 

 " Ivanhoe," or Kipling's " Captains Courageous"? Such 

 books rank high as literature and at the same time are 

 as thrilling as you may desire. Some other stories of in- 

 terest to boys and girls are as follows : Kipling's " Just 

 So Stories," and " Jungle Books," Numbers One and 

 Two ; Poe's " The Gold Bug " ; Carroll's " Alice in Wonder- 

 land " and " Through the Looking Glass"; Arnold's 

 " Tom Brown at Rugby " ; Scott's " Ivanhoe " and 

 " Guy Mannering " ; Dickens' " Tale of Two Cities," 

 " Nicholas Nickleby," and " Pickwick Papers," the latter 



