CORRESPONDENCE. ABOUT READING.

White Ribbon, Volume 18, Issue 7, 1 August 1946, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE. ABOUT READING.

I tear Fellow-workers, I read in the May number of the “White Ribbon” a column headed ‘About Books.” Now, the best-educated people are usually the most useful in the W.C.T.U. meetings. I am particularly mindful of the Misses Fdger, Mrs. Bennett, Mrs. I red Kasper, and Mrs. W. Hamilton, of Warkworth. These people could be trusted to give a short, unprejudiced opinion of any subject in well-chosen language. For public women, the habit of reading is essential; for tired women, it is rest. To the yoking woman, it gives a certain largeness* of v iew point. All our members have ideas, but they are held hack because they do not know the conditions in other countries, and they know very little about how to improve matters. Look at our Maori friends. Every little start they make encourages them. They, like ourselves, carry books from libraries. For, Francis Bacon said nearly four hundred years ago, “Reading maketh a full man.*’ CAROLINE THOMPSON, Whangarei.