A Way To Grow Wise

reading a book, or an article, or an item of information froin any reliable source, before tiirning your attention to other things, give two or three minutes' quk-t tlioéght to the subject tüat lias just been presented to your mind; see liow mucli you can remember co;icerning it; and if tliere were any new ideas, instruutive facts, or points of especial interest tbat impressed you as you read, force yourself to reeall them. It may be a little troublesome at fitst until your mind gets under control and learns to obey your will, but the very etlurt to tliink it all out will engrave the facts deeply upon the niemory, so deeply tliat they wil; Dot be effaced by the rushing in of a new and different set of idea?; wherWS, if the nuitter be given uo further consideratiou at all, the impressions you have recelved will fade away so entirely that wlthln a few weeks you will be totally unable to remember more thau a dim outliue of them. Form the goodhabit, tlien.of alwaysreviewiní what has just been read. It exercises and diSClpllnM the mental faculties, streiiKthens the niemory, and teaches concentration of thoujfht. You will soon learn, in this way, to think and reason intelligently, to separate and classify different kinds of information; and in time the mind, iustead of being z lumbei-room in which the various contents are thrown together in careleas confusión and disorder, will become a j house wliere each special class or item of knowledge,neatly labeled.uas its own I ticular place and is ready for use the