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Show Dissipation in Beading. The morning paper reaches nineteen-twentieths nineteen-twentieths of its readers and the people generally at a time, when they cannot read it. The work of the day is upon them. They mouth over the paper hastily and throw it aside. Nothing is read, only gulped down. This is dissipation. It is as unhealthful to stuff the miud with un-niasticated un-niasticated food as the body. Th(. evening paper is prepared at a time when men ought to work, the time set aside by nature for work. -All its facts are scrutinized in the clear light of day, not by the murky glare of the saloon lamp. It comes to its readers when the work of the day is done. It is carried to the home and read in the family circle. Its contents are conned carefully and leisurelv in the most favorable circumstances" circum-stances" possible to be attained under the softening and elevating influence of home. It becomes a part of the household house-hold economv to take part in the reading of the paper." Each member of the home circle takes an interest in it. The home is the center of the power that rules the world. It is to the home the evening paper goes. Chicago Mail. 1 |