Reading Aloud,

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1183, 26 September 1885, Page 6

Reading Aloud,

A very pleasant 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 very attractive, and lightens the drudgery of the mother, who often sits 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 (70 out takes hie paper or book, and sabsides 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 up in our memories scenes in the far past — the pleasant family circle, then, perhaps, 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 work which ia in operation while any book is-being read.