Reading at Meals.
The habit of reading at meals is (says the “Family Doctor”) to be condemned, and more particularly, when it has grown to one of actual study, and when the reader endeavours to gain knowledge and save time at his meals. The solitary reader, if he reads, should only read what is light and amusing. The common practice of having the morning paper at our breakfast table is not especially injurious, as it furnishes items for conversation, and does not particularly exercise the brain, but if it should do so, it is advisable to at once discontinue it. Digestion is always best served when the mind is free from care, and when the physical processes of our frames are left to discharge their work free from nervous trammels. It is on the ground of the elevation of spirits produced by cheerful association with others that plea•ant company at meals has always formed a condition of social enjoyment.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 4, 26 January 1910, Page 63
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159Reading at Meals. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 4, 26 January 1910, Page 63
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