Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1823-10-08

The following Communication agrees so,
well with our opinions on the same subject,
that we must recommend it to our readers
particularly the class of borrowers, and hope
1t may cause an increase of patronage to our
weekly ''tolio of four pages"
COMMUNICATION.
1t is fact which requires no argument that
newspapers afford a cheaper mass of valuable
reading, than is to be obtained from any other
source. The advantages of this species of
reading are OF so much importance to every in
dividual, that am surprised at any parents
neglectlng to furnish one Of these useful publi-
cations for his own, and his family's informa-
ton, and improvement. Free access to the
newspapers and periodical publications of the
day, furnishes a knowledge of the passing
events in the world, which in every company.
are the subject of discussion, and it gives this
class OF persons the advantage over those
whose reading is confined to books, which,
though valuable, and choice in the selection,
are deficient IN that variety of information, so
necessary for the purposes Of social converse
ton. A man feels himself not at home, when
the affairs OF nations, the duty of legislators,
and important questions of public nature
are discussed, unless he is conversant with the
politicks OF the day, with the revolutions in
the world, the wars and rumors of wars, and
all that continually agitates the nations of the
earth, and keeps society in terment. A news
paper Is visitor at whose delay every class
of readers discover the greatest Impotence.
The venerable old man, and the aged matron,
the divine, the philosopher, the statesman,
and indeed every grade of human beings, from
the monarch on his throne, to the school boy
with his satchel, are ready to seize the news
paper on its arrival, and run it over with all
the Impotence felt at the delay of SOME PROM
ised qualification, till they hit upon the favor
lite subject, which they are sure to find some
where, noticed, by the sagacious editor.
lfsome readers occasionally find in newspa-
pers, articles not exactly fitted to their partic-
ular taste, they should be sparins OF their cen
sure. The printer has many palates to &C.
commodate4 and it would be miracle. if in
serving up his ordinary, he should in every
instance exactly hit upon dish which would
be grateful to the stomach Of every news.read-
ing epicure.
Much Of the usefulness of newspapers is
lost to the subscriber by suffering them to be
destroyed, soon after their first reading. They
should be carefully preserved, and at the end
ofone or more years, bound in a volume
They will be found convenient book of re-
ference, and though old, will retain much Of
their novelty and usefulness. | know of hard
ly any reading which at the present time at:
iords me more amusement, or greater satisfac
ton than the perusal Of file of newspapers,
which my father commenced when | was a
boy, and which, by different branches of the
family, have been continued to the present
time. BY referring to this file of papers find
notice of many important facts relating to
the history of my country, the establishment
of its government, &c. which, through the
lapse of years would have been forgotten had
not this faithful record of the events of the
time preserved them.