THE USE OF LEISURE
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,-1 adopted and adapted to my own interests the method of " Rending with a Background," suggested by one of your writers a year or so back. I have on my shelves the writings of some of the classical authors, " heavy " stuff and novels.
Glancing through the day's news I notice a paragraph that has a bearing on something in one of my standard works. After 9 p.m., by which time everyone in the house is supposed to have finished with the paper (an important point l), I cut out the paragraph and paste it into the book that deals with the matter in question. In this way one does not read simply
to pass the time. It is a new way of playing the game of Hunt the Slipper, the slipper being items of today's hap- penings that have been discussed by the men, and women, of old who have established themselves as authorities.— Kilnhurst, Yorks. Yours faithfully, CHARLES J. HILL AITKEN (M.D.).
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