| Show influence of a newspaper A school teacher who has been enga engaged ad a long iong on time in his profession and witnessed th the influence of a newspaper ir on the minds of a family of children writer writes to the editor of the sentinel as fol foi follows aws I 1 have found it to be the universal fact without exception that those scholars of both sexes and of all ages who have had access access to news eave papers apers at home when compared with those who have laye not are 1 better readers excelling in in pronunciation and ard consequently read more mure understandingly 2 they are better speller and define words with ease and accuracy 3 they obtain a practical knowledge of geography in almost half the time it requires others as the newspaper has made them familiar fam han har with the location of t ie most important places nat nations lone ione their governments and doing dal dai on the globe 4 they are better grammarians for tor having become so familiar with every variety in the newspaper from the advertisement to the finished and classical oration of the he statesman many they more readily comprehend the meaning of the text and consequently analyze its construction st with accuracy editorship we have known a very learned gentleman to obligingly bring bri us a cont contribution with the remark that as we were of course continually occupied ft il must doubtless be quite an accommodation to receive a good article once in a while and oil on examining the good article in question we have found three gross grammatical errors divers sins of awkwardness and two words misspelled mis spelled in the first and second sentences A lecture which will bear print printing ipg as it is delivered is an exception and in a word there are very few men who have not served a regular apprenticeship to the types who can sit down and without halt or let I 1 11 express their thoughts readily and fluently in writing yet with all this we daily meet with gentlemen who because they have made an occasional hit in a letter to a friend or have elaborated a drawling story or poem in some incautious paper talk daringly and dashingly of journalism and graciously inform us how they would make things 0 fly round it if they were only editors I 1 singular every man no matter how stupid he is always seems to be morally convince convinced d that if everything else als ais fails falls he can either manage a small farm or edit a paper and experience peri perl ence shows that where there are a hundred educated young men capable of successfully practicing a profession there ia is not more than one or two who is really enough of a genius a scholar and a man of practical sense to make a good editor in fact though all the world reads pa papers ers there are very few wc C out cut business w who have ever taken the pains fd acquire much information relative to it and the natural consequence is that its difficult difficulties les are arc unappreciated phila bulle buile tin sae sea 0 THE DEPARTING INFLUENCE or OF CALICO when mien we look into the thoroughfares alas we see noc no alicc calie oli silk and allias all ali its ita half sister fd fabrics brics 11 gl 1 de tie along itne dazzling some queer some splendid some dilta brita fantastic but rione bone have the sweet clean ciran cle elf an fascinato fas cinat ms elegant fihe calico which used to skip alp by with prelly skippers in it aliee atie e are those who wiio mourn over little things the drooping violet the the broken rattle rattie box the he fading rose kitten kliten the rain spoiled bont bonne let iet but we miburn fr for exalted ani mated small figured calico silks trailing through the dust have lost favor ii in our eye eyes fancy di daiy diy y goods are as enatt active as tattered awnings and every costly thing ff of feminine apparel no longer surpasses th e lime ilme home hame spun gowns of nations spring from the wili wiLl wilderness erness then ther manul cr in decay cities are built in barren places expand a while ard waste away men from obscurity rise to toyama fama and power then gather d saraca fgrace and neg neglect lec the tha rich grow poor and the poor grow row 0 r ch the iha high sin sink sunk k to ignoble igi oble obie graves and in 11 the iri tri s variety of eliina there are re m gaty ani mig mighty lity clam celanges cl anges es ve we are therefore 4 f the opinion that the ar acla of calico has had llad its days of glory also ard 13 3 not as inich in use as it used to be where is the man who wi will 1 not promptly prom ply say tl 11 at the hand 3 unest object lie he ever beheld was a abbing being clad in a handsome piece of calico ile he cant be found masculine eyes ae a e the eyes for feminine graca grace |
