Show READING BEADING OF newspapers fly BY AMOS R WELLS in front of 0 me in the cars s cat at two business i men they bought their athey had bought them every morning fo lor r ahe last lad thirty years and themselves in their at once burled voluminous Iri folds aha exclaimed one suddenly been having a revolution in brazil I 1 see um Urn grunted the other that so I 1 ean seen anything about it that brazilian revolution which knocked poor dom pedro from his throne ind and overthrew the last monarch monarchy on the american continent ch changing a nging into s republic the largest large nation of 0 south america and one of the largest ot of the world was in its character and re one of the most inhere interesting eting and important events of the century and it had taken place six days before their flews newspapers papers had faithfully reported each of these days tile the startling occurrences occurrence sp but these confirmed newspaper readers had just seen it for the first time and evidently care then the whole world it is often said ties lies spread out before us in each copy of a daliy paper so it does but how many see it I 1 run no risk a all in asserting that the last portion of tire the paper to be read arc usually the columns column ot of foreign news and the letters froni foreign correspondents why Is this because people are lazy the newspaper has no space tor for a sec lion of the lexicon dictionary of biography and gaz ateer every in morning orning nor can the world part of the newspaper be read with any interest and permanent profit without thoe these aids A lazy ma man n read a newspaper ile he can read the murders suicides fires scandals embezzle embezzlements ments but lie he cant read the elie news the really new and fresh and important things the first lie he knows he will stumble against such a term as Is it an animal or a town or lie he will strike or vaal tile parish councils the centrists Centris ts the sofas the kara sea Grey town to read the world in that newspaper you sec he must do a little work lie ile must mark the words and allusions he does docs not understand and tile the library must interpret the newspaper I 1 once once knew a group of enterprising oung folks nho divided up the world among themselves and set out to conquer the hie newspaper operatively cooperatively co one looked out tor for for europe one tor for america and one tor for the file rest of tile the world then they alicy k pt changing their field they met once a week and told each other the elie dews and boon they knew more of what flat was going on in the world than llian the oldest newspaper reader in ili town theres no royal road to reading ng dont get gel tile the impression though that the lie macj r columns devoted to foreign nebb are arc all that the has forvour tor your profit dont skip the batory of congress and of your legi legible bla ture do skip therein however the goisis the empty political gions the reports of parliamentary quarrels and repartee notice what bills are introduced it is at this time that the newspaper gives an account of their purpose henceforth referring to them merely wichely by title 0 so o that it you miss jour our information from roin the start you are likely to flounder in contusion confusion through the entire entile discussion of the hill bill notice what bills are arc passed read with care the speeches that are ae ported in full till the president message and similar matters and then read elie comments on oil all these there that are arc given in the editorial pages throughout tile the whole keep a level alekel head cablegrams Cable grams froni from counties talc are arc very costly and therefore very curt what you read of foreign news has ha been padded cil and not always vil wisely sely file editorials editorial arc likely to be biased by personal or partisan tan prejudice learn to lo be tile judge ot of what au ou read and not lit its slave some weekly papers paper give ilia magnificent reviews review of tile the weeks week news that will ill set ct in their proper relationship all that you have been reading anti anil clear up many a doubtful point an houi with tuch such a weekly raper paper far ar more ahrin doublet doubles the value of a dally paper there ara ar other of value in your morning herald or tribune or gazette there arc the biographical accounts of tile the famous men v when ile they die dic there are extracts extract from roin the last lad magazines that give us uc the cream of a score of valuable articles article every day there are book reviews review poems accounts account of eminent men travel articles article t great commercial enter cs scientific ic notes note all of 0 these are arc well worth reading for or keeps and when will ill you have time lime for or all ui this why hies bless douall you all this occupies only ly a small mall part ot of your newspaper and the larger portion ot of the mammoth hucl ille portion over which most men hidu 1 I have you read at all never read newspapers unless union you are able to skip the greater part of them 7 measure up and you will find that the mott lost apace in new paper Is 1 mccu pied by races race lla theater murder trials fires arc defalcation i and the like read these things thing by aile ai they acad many I 1 01 0 the bills in congress learn the art of righteous skipping or r your newspaper reading will do you more harm than good with willi this plan ol of reading newspapers you will III be delighted to see sec how rapidly your knowledge will grow A reference once mastered unlocks a dozen others an unfamiliar geographical geographic allusion alln slon investigated gives vividness to a score core of paragraphs to come you speedily spec dily begin to feet feel at home here and there all over the world you have es a sort of proprietary right in sierra leone and behring sea and slam and Ilon honduras duras and a thousand other places you can imagine as you go about your tasks something of 0 what Is happening in constantinople in the palace of the czar in the councils of lord rosebery in peares lonely camp up toward the pole and so your sympathies have expanded F your corhon has widened your life has become enriched by a host of new and intense interests petty worries have less lessy power ower to vex you and nar row views have less power to dwarf your mind while none the less a patriot but a thousand times the lie mor eyou you have become a genuine of the world Is it not worth while |