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Show NEWSPAPER. Show us an intelligent family of boys and girls, and we will show you a family where newspapers and periodicals are plentiful. Nobody who has been without these silent tutors, can know then educational power for good and for evil. Have you never thought of the innumerable topics of discussion which they suggest at the breakfast table; the most important public measures with which, thus early, our children become familiarly acquainted; great philanthropic questions of the day, to which unconsciously their attention is awakened, and the general spirit of intelligences which is evoked by these quiet visitors? Anything thing that makes home pleasant, cheerful, and chatty, and thins the haunts of vice and the thousand and one avenues of temptation, should certainly be regarded, when we consider its influence on the mind of the young, as a great moral and social blessing.-Emerson. |