Reading … A Lost Art*

Never before has a generation of young people gone out to face life as well versed in the three R’s as in our day. Practically everyone has toiled and worried over his “reading, riting, and rithmetic” for at least eight years, if not longer. The man who signs his name with an X and stares at a newspaper as if it were a set of hieroglyphics is a thing of the past. Never before have the printing presses poured out so much material for general consumption as in our age. And yet, in spite of all...