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Show A LIBERAL EDUCATION. Said to bo Lurking oil the Advertising Pages of Vour IVewspaper. ISew York Recorder. A good ue'A spapcr is a presentation of the drawn of daily life, for which -'all the world's stage." Its news is personal, .as well as public. Its personal news is not exclusive, but of particular and direct interest to many persons constituting the subdivision into w hich the masses are separated. When you have read the general intclli-sren.-c regarding public eyeuts of the day, gathered by reporters far and near and transmitted by lightning to the publication office; and after that when you have noted ami digested the opinions of your paper on curreut events and their relations to those of other times and other counties you have not Unlisted your newspaper either as your iu-Ksnaent iu-Ksnaent or as your instructor. There remains for your enlightenment and entertainment the most vivid of all presentations presenta-tions of the life of the world, because expressed ex-pressed by reople themselves in their own words, while describing their own wants, opportunities and aspirations, such as go to make up the sum of human life and hope. It is certain that since the development of the press as the exponent of civilized thought there is even more to be learned from the advertisements in a newspaper than from that pait of the publication which is called its "news columns."' Do you want to know What sort of a place a great city is, what its people are doiug and what they are thinking about, how they live, what are their industries, indus-tries, their commercial transactions, their methods at travel and the habits of their home in a word, if you wish to know the community, the place to study it is in their advertisements. !: ad 'he advertisements day by day for a Week to beciu with. Do not lay aside your paper until you have read them, and you Win form a habit that will be a newr-failiug source .-if instruction and diversion a liberal education in itself. |