The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

wilton BOIIeIS, IIlll9eu (S2'5C
AND SEVERAL
people object to so much of the new
in the papers is not that they find 4
immoral but annoying. They do no
like to be pricked and prodded by tn
hard, the awful facts Of existence; the,
finch from contact even in print witt
the tremendous things of life; the,
want even their newspapers to be sOf
and comfortable.
In reporting murders, abductions
suicides, poisoning and the like, The
press is only holding the mirror up t
life-only representing life as it is il
its solemnest, most vital essence. i
ought always to be remembered thai
every department in a newspaper re.
fleets the taste of some class OF consti-
tuents and that because a thing is moi
to our taste is no reason why it is bad
The volumes of sporting news may not
be to our taste, but thousands of mer
like them, and have the same right tc
like them that you have to like the
club Woman's column in the Boston
Transcript. I have heard the woman's
page derlded for its advice to massage
the face every night before going ia
I bed, and to wash out the dish cloth af-
ter every meal, but personally, while
L enjoy the book review, the art news
and the editorials, I also enjoy the
| woman's page, and am not above feel
| ing grateful to the editor for telling me
what 10 do with the dish cloth. The
sllliest WOman's page that ever got it.
self printed is not sllier than some of
the women who read it. The recipes
for apple pie and the formulas for
crochet reflect the ability and ambi-
tons Of too many women to be ignored
or despsed.
The Sunday paper has proved a pos
tive uplitt to the masses, who find in
It. one of their chief means to intellec>
tual growth.
The stream cannot rise superior to
its source, and if the press is frivolous,
INSCRIPTIONS, undignified, petty, it is
because the peOL%s choose that it shall
be- 1t is the consumer, you know, who
is the real producer. 1t is the people
who buy the newspapers who say what
snail go IN me newspapers, because the
counting room is the very pulse of the
hlachlne, and not, except indirectly, the
eulLors and reporters. A newspaper is
not philanthropy any more than a
Shoe shop or mustard mill are phil
anthropies it is primarily a business
CJIsCTlIl' IHat VIII turn out the STUFF for
winch there IS the greatest demand,
WI WI! produce the goods which it pays
''S5S.l. 70 produce Inc most successful
~ d papers are those that sense most
accurately what the people want and
then give it to them.
so sensitive to the public pulse is the
press that the slightest variation in
sentiment, the uerpst huhbla IN fhe
s 5u' Loce' Is instantly noted. A breath
10 eHoush TO send the newspapers off
1uS ailer aho1her as If they had been
gtC,Syiict t(l on a Wlfe IN readiness TO
ile'NT tle QaSh. is gold discovered in
ulis Nlo ono, Ihen columns Of geog-
idply ana history are printed to sat
t2LS d PoSSip!e thirst on the part of
ne puolle Tor hIondlke news. Is Mr..
LNIpllIls sIilcken with pneumonia? Then
away spnnts the press to serve up
hlpilnglana- Has Senator Hoac awaited
IlIlliSeIL OF Woman's prerOgative and
oti'I TIt ms hIndE Does the annexation
H,,Il,'t, an opeIl up new INTERESTS to the
go, ~ an HIeLcIlanl! DO the Philip
at -S' ~" ,.a,tI rev americans could To-
oate d year ago, loom up through q
IILSt OF glory? Then behold the press
LeiIeCtlIS them in its myriad,
VI nt-eyed Facets
NO tne 1ault of the press is not
that it does not represent accurately
tle me and temper of the American
people ouL That it reflects them too
accurately. 1t has the accuracy of the
pnoIos,aph' with all the wrinkles and
AaLural blemishes left in"
ton of the American ESSAY Nv ren1in5
ing the audience Of the close connection
llidL had always existed between es-
says, such as those Of Emerson and
Lowell and the life of the country.
me essay, said she, us a late growth
or that literary garden which Furorean
nations came to scott at but remained
10 praise and TO fear comparison with
Now the garden is bewilderlnrlv fuII
Great literary epochs are never The
fruit of effort in a special direction but
Of spontaneous enthusiasm. The essay
shows this particularly.
In concluding, she said. "wbi1a r,e
lack the perspective to image anrrootl
ly, we do not believe thar Rran6ee
Matthews win live like IowelI, ~. ' P,,rs
roughs like Thoreau, still he 80, Ul D o.a,
generation shows what tba ntb S0eI Ite e,
"a touch of TODAY. Essavs roeaat i la'l
tory and social conditions ya ,rc' ms ms
pletely: the history of tb uoiL,
could l,a ,,,,.,.-zA....4 VIC NOulll y