NEWSPAPERS.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 297, 20 February 1878, Page 4

NEWSPAPERS.

A school teacher, who had boon a longtime engaged in. bid profession, and witnwsed ' the influence of a newspaper upon the mind of a family of ohiklren, ' ■rites as foil )"»s : —I nave found it to bo a universal fact, without exception, that those scholars of botli sexes, and of all ages, who have access to newspapers at home, when compared with ihoso who have not, are—l. Better readers, excelling in pronunciation, and consequently read more understandingly. •*. T|,py are better spellers, and define W'rds '.vitfu.of.se and accuracy. 3. They ;-l 1.-in p’-.-icticnl knowledge of geography .driest hah the time it requires of r-mrs, :.s the newspapers have made them acquainted with the location of

the iniportaint places .of the nations their government and doings on the globe. 4. They are better grammarians, for, having become so familiar with every variety of style in the newspapers, from the commonplace advertisements to the finished and classical oration of the statesman, they more readily comprehend the meaning of the text and constantly analyse its construction with accuracy. 5. They write better compositions, using better language, containing more thoughts, more clearly and more correctly expressed. 6. Those young men who have for years been readers of newspapers are always taking the lead in debating societies, exhibiting a more extensive knowledge on a greater variety of subjects, and expressing their view's with greater fluency, clearness and correctness.