The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-12-12
What are YOU going to do

What are you going " az
about it.-About what, do you ask !!
WHY about the long winter evenings
which are now on us. Perhaps you
think they will take care of themselves.
oh. of course they will; but ify you will
only take care of them, they will yield as
rich a harvest as golden August or
brown September.
What do you mean! Why, we mean
lust this that tho evenings of these win
ter months, which lie just before US, are
an incalculable treasure if rightly used
You may fool them away, doing tor
pidly by the stove, or hanging around
stores and shops, sucking in the vapld
talk of the hour, and making yourself
nuisance generally, and SO grow daily
more dull and sluggish and miserable in
your modes of thought, till you win and
deserve the name of loGter; or you may
by application to books, make each even
ing bring you new accession OF mental
strength and intellectual treasures, ad-
ding something to that wealth which is
imperishable and safe from all the accl-
dents of time-g!ving you power among
men, respect in the community and turn-
isbinr YOU with thoughts which shall
steal away half tie bitterness of life, and
take away the WEAKNESS from hours OF
toll. But what will you read. The
JoURSRL. OF course, ana the Tribune and
some other papers.
YOU will have books of Poems-sweet
little poems, which were sung as BIRD
songs are sung, and which waken all hu-
man affections and descend on the soul
with the haIlowed benediction Of Charity
and Peace, and trumpet-tongued poems,
which wake up the soul to heroic endeav-
or. anu form the martial music, to the
march oflife. You VIII have histories,
too, and travels and spice of Romance
from the masters of Fiction. and little
Philosophy and Theology withall.
Bnt newspapers and books are not
enough. You want something sand
uiched IA between, blending tho yiyacity
AMI freshness of the one with the cul-
ture and wisdom of the other. In sh TT,
YOU want a good Aagaziae, and this
makes US think that we are just making
up club for Tie 1Atlantic," which sits
royalty at the head of the Monthlies, and
promises new attractions and added
wealth for the ensuing gear, and we will
furnish it to any of our readers for the
small SUM of two dollars.
The Cosmopolitan Dirt Journal, too
is Just such publication rs we AXE
pleasure in recommending. Tue Asso-
ton by which it is published is doing
much to create and cultivate taste for
pure Literature and refining Art. Every
subscriber is furnished with large and
beautiful engraving, which alone is worth
five dollars, while the art Journal and
the engraving is furnished for three dol
lars. We are the Agent for the Associ-
alton here, and all subscriptions must be
hand ID in soon.
We have Ii tie anecdote to tell
in regard to our agency for this Associa-
ton. Some months ago we were graft
fed by receiving the Art Journal and
an appointment as an agent of the Asso-
citation. A few weeks since we received
two copies of the large and superb engrav-
ing, "FALsTAFF MASTERING HIS Re-.
cRU1Ts." Accompanying the engravings
was note requesting us to keep one en-
craving and present the other to the
Editor of the River Falls JOURNAL. We
called at the JOURNAL Office, the next
day and made formal presentation to
the Editor. He replied in short speech
and promised to give notice ofthe As
ISOLATION in his paper.
In conclusion, we repeat, what are you
going to do about it? We mean now
about taking the atlantic Monthly and
the Art journal.