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(Projecting letters omitted.).
Most adults have long forgot- ten how they learned to read and the process now seems extremely simple. But there is much more in it than appears on the sur- face with respect both to past experience in reading and to present ability of the render.`;
This is what happens in read- ing.
The eye proceeds along (5) the lines of print in a series of jumps and pauses; nothing is taken in while the eye is in movement and only during the very short pauses are words re- cognised.
The average pause of a good
In mos" **aces, the *ow*in* mon*e*s ma e a enr*u* an arrowin* noise. (Letters that do not project
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American dominion. Canada, from Quebec and Victoria, has been captivated and charmed; Washington and New York also fell under the spell, of the Queen's magnetic smile and the King's kingly, but truly democratic bearing. No amount of diplomatic exchanges B.
ed
reading material-s
ment or an insurance policy-
little grey lady doctor was adamant; the
N. B.
tion in her tiny clinic for foreign language, a legal docu- the mentally afflicted; she WHITESTONE when reading it half aloud is a attended only to the needs of the physique. These
great aid.
or other
it was true that the old
inther
по-
in
Specimens taken from the film for a good reuder (A) and
facts she had reiterated his scared and wizened face-a most Of course, there are some who for a poor reader (B) are like
unmartial spectacle. Miserably he this ench
read everything half aloud from many times and in no un-protested that he dare not take stroke means 2
home his habit and are a form of public certain tone to the reluctant, his mother pause:
nuisance in the bus or cinema. elusive family, 80
was far would flay him; there the A. It/was first/time Silent reading is quicker if wel without result.
one to manage her; nowhere he could conc/ert of any so/rt had/ reduce lip movement
take her. By no means an unfeeling even been giv/en in a pris/on vocalisation (few adults reach Under the fragrant, ancient, gnarled woman nor unmindful of the real hospi/tal. Per/mission had more than 200 words a minute wistaria in the shadowy, sun-flecked nature of their predicament, yet for the doctor's safety and that of her /been obtained only/after reading aloud).
peace of the quiet old courtyards of a/long
her lovely dwelling, the troubled patients, the poor old woman must be doctor explained it all to my wonder-tunately the demented one was
got away from the clinic. Most for- It/was/the first time a reading; some backward pupils Certainly
Then, again, writing helps our ing mind in decisive energetic speech. quiescent mood, and quite willingly con/cert/of an/y. so/rt had/ make marked progress when woman had a minor physical com-consented to a jaunt in the doctor's
little even/been given in/a-taught to read through tracing the clinic, but her major and probably notice of her soldier son and he plaint and so had been admitted to a vacant, amiable way. She took no carriage, leering around her in pri/son/hos/pit/al. Per/ and writing the words they do incurable woe was that she was, to gazed upon her muddled features in mission had/been ob/tain/ not know.
put the matter plainly, undoubtedly terror and distaste; gazed with that ed only after a/lon/g
mad, The embarrassed clan, unable horror of the insane which In spite of aids to word recog- to cope with the situation, hit upon the Chinese; thought with fear of
a cunning plan. No refuge was there Naturally, taking in more nition the mind can play queer in that backward, impoverished city what would befall him at his father's words at a time-an ability that tricks on us, for sometimes we which would
hands, he who had It was not the success of the (can be developed increases read what our emotional state unfortunated receive and treat the himself upon the satisfactory disposal
of the speed, so that we find wide varia- determines us to read. Just as nothing but skin and bone. Get her implored, even as I slipped a silver ways had a cough and was really and plteously the little soldier boy Incumbrance. Despondently British, Canadian and American tions in rate of reading amongst a frightened person is ready to into the clinic! And all would be dollar into his sweating, trembling
mistake a white towel for a well. And the doctor, though rather newspaper correspondents em-
ghost at night, so we jump to surprised at the slightness of her com- phasised, but the complete
wrong conclusions over print.
plaint, unsuspectingly agreed. During the recent typhoid Silence, sullenness and open sur-
could have produced
such satisfying results in bringing closer the peoples of the United States and Britain, and for this alone Their Majesties can look back upon their tour with deserved satisfaction.
official
functions which
adults.
Z
assess
answers
scare
an
grimy paw.
afflicta
appear-
manner in which Their Majesties Take any column on this page captured the hearts of the huge and see how many words you
several friends misread picion on the part of a new patient Indian guards, armed with large crowds which greeted them at can read silently in one minute. "typhoon" as "typhoid," while the habits of the latest arrival created bristled and glared at the spectacle of being by no means out of the way; and unpleasant-looking weapons, every point. Their cheers were A few people read as many as at the time of the R 101 no comment. But when she com- the interloper who strolled so casually not forced or superficial, but 600 words, others only 160; an disaster I remember reading
menced to plaster her features with
barbed wire enclosure, eyeing the spontaneous and genuine. In average number is 300 words. heading "RIQ JANEIRO" as Rher congee, to hurl the remains in the the with no apparent object round
faces of others; to shriek and yell; to the King and Queen, Canadians can read at an amazing speed-
It is readers of the 600 type who 101. Similarly habitual asso-attack other patients in their sleep; unkempt, idle, staring military in-
ciations also cause errors; thus something had to be done and quickly. their enforced inactivity the
ternces. Amid the almlessness of Should the woman injure herself or and Americans found just the a capacity strikingly exemplified many people would read: right expression of their idcals by a famous educationist of the HANDY,
ANDY HARDY
38 ANDY others the doctor knew only too well ance of a stranger was, doubtless, an
unexpected and welcome unlimited offcial enquiry, inter-
diversion. that regarding the Mother country. University of London who could
ference, suspicion, and most probably And the interloper was a trifle dis They realised through the happy read and accurately
Recently I read BOYS TO rank injustice and oppression would somewhat uncouth, staring, joking. concerted by the now endless ring of HELP REFUGEES as BOYS cure and go thankless, but should any throng. One
follow. The foreign doctor might gestures of friendliness and instudent's examination
laughing, and sometimes jeering. ...REFUSE while an Australian patient be so inconsiderate or so
dark-browed, slumping, His, Majesty's admirable
in four to five minutes while friend resident in London almost mortal as to decline or even die, there but well-proportioned fellow in part- other examiners took nine speeches, that friendship with twelve minutes.
to invariably misrend Australian would be the devil to pay! So, for 20
seemed
interested, following my the protection of her own interests as did the majority in fact. Not much
movements from inside his circle Britain, and loyalty to the The numder of words taken in
for Austrian.
and the genuine sick, the old woman relishing this atmosphere of caged Crown, offered
Findy, it is obvious that both must go. Husband and sons were humanity. I turned away. A volco soundest hopes for world peace. how we recognice them. Nor must be combined for practical could get the indignant doctor out of Now the staring was performed upon of the during each pause depends on speed and accuracy in reading elusive and crafty; would promise yelled "Doctorman Debolla Deboila! anything for to-morrow if only they Hutang Erhi Missie pay boy dollah!" One American correspondentally adults just recognise words purposes. There are some adults their tiny, brick-built hut; and, as the vividly summed up the reactions as a vague pattern or outline, who read quickly but miss im- usual, to-morrow never came. But the outer side of the fence. By some of the Canadians by declaring them, but we are influenced by ter to be slow and accurate than neat and shining little rickisht, the recognised me, and brought back to there is little time, to scrutinise portant points, so that it is bet they were outwitted. Bowling along marvel of the Chinese power of this hairy, muscular, the winding, narrow hutangs in her observation, that "before the tour, most their length, their projecting fast and inaccurate. But, no-doctor recognised the little soldier son
rather ferocious-looking monster, had Canadians would have fought letters and by the first parts of turally, the purpose of the read-of the house, She stopped, and but before when a weeping little soldier rememberance a day twelve years for their Mother country; now the words; thus the second set ing influences its nature; we can her ricksha before he had time to of Pekin had clutched a dollar out they would fight at the drop of Jin each of the following groups read just for pleasure, when realise what was happening to him, of my hand. But the vigilance of the hat for the King and Queon. is engeir to read than the first skipping through to get plot and much less to get.. Striet and hurried thoso keen-eyed, armed guards for-
one
From now own, Canada is a little
Bot:
died the astonished ittle man into
to
cular
incident may suffice, or we can not to stop upon
instructions were given to the puller bade the passing of another dollar. bit of England and closer to the Our hearts and minds are full. Information, or for particular courtyard, Hastly the doctor clam
the way and throne than ever." This is not We leave your shores after some instructions or details.
read for general impression and deposit the capture safely in the inner an empty sentiment, but a of the most inspiring and
bered into a pubile ricksha and Telepathy Fails followed-grim and triumpliant. At correct estimate of the effect of illuminating weeks of ur lives" are needed in life and, as correct grasp a more or less responsible mem-| All forma of silent reading all events she had now within her
Blind Men the visit, carried out so gracious-must assuredly represent Their habits of adult reading are based ber of the clan. ly and with such conscientious Majesties inmost feelings about
Butte, Mont.. on habits formed in school, It ness by Their Majesties. But if the wonderful receptions given should be an aim of all schools to be more than 13 or 14 was walking along the street when he John Salon, blind musician, 'was The little soldier-ho did not appear the King and Queen gave their them. The tour, happily con- to cultivate all types of silent the entire domestic retinue, gaping postulated: "Can't you watch so frantically weeping, surrounded by bumped into another man, who ex- Canadian subjects and their ceived, can be written down as a American admirers joyous brilliant, far-reaching success:
reading. There is still too much and gesticulating. So poorly dressed you're going? I'm a blind man.” “So memories, it is equally true that Britain will echo Canada's oral reading in some schools and in his ill-fitting garments of hideous am I, repiled Selon. A heavy wind.
· In amociation with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Pokingcao were reciprocal. The fervent "God bless the King and insuficient directed silent read-stale-mustard yellow, his dusty feet had apparently prevented ench from
King's sincere parting words: [Queen.”
ing of different kinds.
in well-worn straw sandals, the deep hearing or "sensing" the other's ap- peaked cap which all but swallowed proach,
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