In these great newspaper and periodical days, when everybody can get for one or a few cents the news and information which it has cost thousands of dollars to collect, everybody sits behind the morning sheet or is buried in a book or magazine.

There is no longer the same need of communicating thought by the spoken word.
Oratory is becoming a lost art for the same reason.

Printing has become so cheap that even the poorest homes can get more reading for a few dollars than kings and noblemen could afford in the Middle Ages.
It is a rare thing to find a polished conversationalist to-day.

So rare is it to hear one speaking exquisite English, and using a superb diction, that it is indeed a luxury.
Good reading, however, will not only broaden the mind and give new ideas, but it will also increase one's vocabulary, and that is a great aid to conversation.

Many people have good thoughts and ideas, but they cannot express them because of the poverty of their vocabulary.
They have not words enough to clothe their ideas and make them attractive.