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Ambition for future fulfillment:

1. Time Magazine -- $5 yr. (weekly)

2. Reader’s Digest -- $3 yr. (monthly)

I have known for some time what type of magazine the Reader’s Digest is, and I held a mental reservation against it for being a sort of underhanded way of taking advantage of legitimate magazines which must bear the expense of large-scale production of writings from which the R.D. takes the meaty parts. To my friends who boasted of their readings in the R.D. I cast mental darts for their laziness in taking the literary gleanings of another.

But tonight I spent a pleasant evening reading on many subjects – any one of which would have required an evening’s work plodding through the prolixity of the complete article. Then too, the articles are reproduced in a style which is art in itself – “clear, curt, concise,” as Time advertises itself. The foregoing notes on two of the articles are convincing proof that I was interested. (See other booklet for the notes.) [1]

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[1] The “other booklet” is unknown.