Use of Newspapers

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 68, 9 December 1886, Page 3

Use of Newspapers

(Communicated.) Shakespeare says " all the world's a stage." 1 say it is a workshop, the people being the tools employed in it, and the newspapers the which keep the tools in order by brightening their intellects and sharpening thier wits. No one can come in contact with a newspaper without losing some incrustation and becoming more fitted to perform his daily labor whether it be physical or intellectual. The man who does not take in a newspaper has about the same chance of holdmghis own with the rest of the world as the rude shape of a tool as it leaves the forge has of being selected against the keen and highly finished article, and the man who does not read a newspaper is just a dull rusty thing which has become so corroded with old-time notions that he is positively worthless. He is a stone axe and belongs to the paleolithic age, and, like the stone axe, he is a great curiosity and about as useful. Sometimes, it is true, these social grindstones rub you in your public career rather roughly, but whenthey do, depend upon it there is a flaw in your material that wants grinding out, so don't turn your back upon them for it, for the rubbing will go on just the same without improving you, but keep applying yourself to them until your fault has worn away and they will make you sharper and brighter than ever you were before. But when using them don't forget to 3ca«p them oiled.