New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-09-20
Too Much Reading.
? cf The n. y. Tribune:

l like your paper, but | shall have 10
step it, have to work for my living, and can't find
hme to read half your sheet Column after column Of
Foreign Intelligence News from the Pacific, Corres
pondence from all parts of the World Court Proceed
ings, Reports of Meetiogs, &c. an Obliged TO leave
unread from lack of inclination to peruse them but
from sheer want Of time; It'll do contrivs 10 worry
through the greater part OF your regular sheet by stay
ing home evenings, when should otner wise be look
ing about town but every now and then you double
tho dose by an extra sheet or supplement- and that
quite does me up | can't begin 10 read H. think
therefore ,hsli have to discontinue The Tribune
Yours, &c. JOHN Ii. SMITH.
Response:
DEAR JoHS-N our case is distressing, but it is
by no means so peculiar as you seem to imagine. IL
is not in The Tribune alone, nor even in Reading
generally, that people labor under difficulty akin
to yours. For instance, your brother BaIte
Smith came down here from the country the othe
day, and stopped at the Astor House but had TO
quit 1.-THE living was too much for him. The
food was very good end abundan-in fact, too
much so-and that did him up. lie dida't eat
more than half way down the bill of fare while he
saw others on every side who had got very near
the bottom Of it, and were still working away
when he left the dinner. table, so full that he could
Cholera the second day, and was threatened with
ApopleIy-so he had to quit the Astor abruptly
and take board at chop house, where he only
ate what he called snd paid for, plate by plate.
Had he stad, the coffin maker would have taken
his measure before this time.
Then there was your cousin, John H. Smith,
who came down and bought ticket to Bamun's
Museum, and found it regular gouge. lie
thought he was goirg to see every curious object
in the world and perhaps he might have done so
but, after looking his eyes almost out ofhis head,
for nine or ten hours, aud giving hmselfa tortur-
ing headache, he had to give up, leaving half the
objects unseen because the attendants began to
blow out the lights, and told him it was time to
shut up and go home.
And then your nephew, John Wilkins Smith,
VINO came dow with sloop. load Of turnips, sold
them satisfactorily, and thereupon resolved to
treat himsefto a SALT water bath, which he did
but, STAYING in two hours in order to get the full
worth OF his money, he came out with an agus
ano is now suffering severely from rheumatic de-
bhy. His case is even harder than yours for
YOU can stop The Tribune, and he has been try
ing TO stop the ague, and can't.
There are more such cases, but let them
pass. We viii stop your paper, very cheerfuly
but we can't stop putting in more than any one
patron will be likely TO peruse. In fact we can't
give each reader what be wants Of the news of
the day without giving his neghbOr great deal
that he don't want. Nor can we give any one
just what he needs TO day without Inserting many
things that he probably would not want to NOR
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from which various appetites may be satisfied,
though each may leave a good deal untouched.
Good by, John I'd.