Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-11-09
admlfe the man of steady purpose. He
move nolselessly along, and yet what won
ders he accolnplishes. He rises. gradually
we grant, but surely.
GRUMBLING ABOUT NEWSPAPERS

GRUMBLING ABOUT NEWSPAPERS.
Grumbling about newspapers, saws the
Boston Traveller, is as ancient as newspa~
pers themselves And, Notwithstanding
the multiplication of these modern conven-
fences and the sleepless efforts of publishers
to adapt their paper to every variety of taste
and every grade of sentiment, affording.
one might think, ample opportunity to
readers to suit themselves perfectly-yet
there is still, perhaps, as much grumbling
about newspapers as there. ever was. We
suppose that it does not often occur to
grumblers that possibly they themselves
may be at fault, may be unreasonable, NAV
expect impossibilies, may be out of humor.
may nave a fit of indigestion Or spleen, or
may be stupid or unappreciative. It NAV
never occur to them that the men who toll
night and day to furnish them with the lat
est news and the greatest variety of informa-
ton and entertainment, are mortal, and
sometimes tire themselves, and get sleepy
and cross and stupid, and torgetful and care
less, and need and deserve, too, some con-
slderatlon and even sympathy from those
Tor whom they increasingly work.
Fault-finding readers do not consider that
everything that is made by human brains
and hands must, of necessity, be imperfect,
however strong the desire and however
earnest the effort may be to have itfaultless.
And above all, they forget that a newspaper
cannot be made for general circulation and
yet, in everything exactly suit any one per-
son. A thoroughly good, enterprising,
newspaper, is really like a Widespread din
ner-table. 1t. contains variety as well as
quantity; something, for every taste and
enough of each kind to satisfy any reasona-
bic appetite. 1t is not expected that any
guest of a table should eat of every dish pro
yided. 1t is not supposed for a moment that
every dish will be palatable to every guest
or agree with every ones digestion; but it
is thought and reasonably, too, that from
the abundant bill of fare every guest can Sc
lect enough that will be digestible and
agreeable to make a substantial and salts
factory meal. just so it is with every we'll
edited newspaper. No man is expected to
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everything If he reads it ; but every man is
expected to find enough that is. good and
useful and acceptable and agreeable in the
ample columns spread out before him. to be
a full equivalent for what the paper costs ;
and if he happens to find on the carte an
article which offends his taste, onis in oppo-
sition to his views, he has Just to let that
alone and leave it for another, whom it will
just suit and for whose taste it was gotten
up. In choosing his paper one should do
just ash does in choosing his restaurant;
he should select one whose general style
suits him, and when his taste changes or the
character Of the paper deteriorates,- he
should change and try another; but never
fret himself or vex his neighbors by grun,-
bling and scolding about his newspaper
which, after all, is just about as necessary
to his comfort as his dinner.
EDUCATING BOYS FOE HUSBANDS.
How many unhappy girls have paid dear
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