South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1889-03-29
Keep q Scrap Book.

advise every boy and girl TO keep
scrapbook. II you arc ten. or A.
teen, or twenty years old. keep
scrapbook. Let me tell you why and
how: Hundreds of things you see
tha. you would like TO keep, but if
you lay them away you will nessr
be able to ind them when you want
them. When was boy did not
have sense enough to keep scrap.
books. l began some, but did not
keep on long with them. =
My memory was good. but can
now remember many things that 1
can't remember. What l mean is
this: remember reading q beautiful
piece OF poetry, Of which two or three
lines / can call up, but the whole I
can't recollect. In some cases do
not know the mama OF the writer.
have seen many fine pictures in
magazines and books that would now
be valuable and interesting. Some
cut out, but they are lost. Charming
stories. wise remarks, proverbs. d.
rections for doing a great many use.
full things ere also lost. So much do
feel sure that / have that l would
give $50 apiece for the scrapbooks Of
each and every year that might
have made from the tim, I was ten
till L began to preserve things only a
fow years back.
There is a gentleman who hiss kept
scrapbook since he was eigh, year
old. lie is COW forty, and has be en-
arranging them in volumes, with an
index in the back Of each one You
would hardly think the earlier ones
would be of much use to him But
they are. He amuses himself as he
reads, for be Gees how little he knew
when he was lille but also finds lit.
tie he still thinks valuable. Besides,
his children are much interested to
see what their father had collected
and pasted in books.
The older he grows the more use
full the books become. lie can go 10
his backs and in few minutes get
information about everything that
has happened in his whole life-tell
you about the civil war, Crimean
var, tho Italian war, the overthrow
OF Louis Napoleon, and great m any
other things. just as they were pub.
lished IN the papers at the time the
event happened.
HIS scrapbook also contains many
funny things TO provoke smile, and
often a merry laugh, and he reads
them TO his family 10 the long winter
evenings. The children would rather
hear him read from the scrapbook
! than the newest story.
Ifyou have no scrapbook, get one
and put in it whatever you please.
You can buy one very cheap. Some
require paste, and one invented by
Mark Twain and sold in the book
stores is arranged like postage stsmps.
a ii you have to do is wet it and lay
on whatever you wish to save. If
you have the money get one of this
kind. 1t lie cleaner and less trouble.
some. The others, however, will do
we'll enough. A bottle Of mucilage
is all you nce1. Only you must be
careful not 10 drop any of the sticky
stun on the pages, or they will stick
together; when you open them the
surface OF che pape. will puff eff and
deface the reading.
1t is good idea to keep q scrap
book handy. Wien you cut Gu,
something, lay it in till there is q
convenient time 10 paste them all in.
But the best way is to paste then in
at the time. If can persuade you
to do this for twenty years, or even
half the time, from now, you will feel
that you have learned something val.
liable from this article. Chr 81 ian
AdU0eate.