The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-26
IT Is A GREAT TREAT.
Reading n Morning Newspaper {
Pleasing Sensation.
From Harper's Weekly.

Pleasing Sensation.
From Harper's Weekly.
The other evening when the Presid
ing Genius of the state of Massachu,
sets came into my study he saw the
| morning paper lying unopened on the
settee by the fireplace.
Haven't you read this YETI" he said
mo, not to-day"
Where are you, anyway? Why
not?"
said 1 hadn't felt up to it yet
didn't feel profound enough--something
to that effect.
The P. G.. s. of M. thinks a news
paper should be read in ten minutes.
He looked over at me with a sort of
slow, plying Boston-Public-I Library
expression he has sometimes.
behaved as well as l could-took
no notice for a minute.
1.-THE fact Is l have changed" / said.
about papers and some things.
have times of thinking. I'm improved
considerably" / added recklessly.
Still the same panied Boston-Public-
Library xpression-only turned on a
little harder.
Seems to me-" | said, when a man
can't feel superior to other people in
this world he might at least be allow
GU the DTlNUcBc VI lGSllIB SuDtIlOT 10
himself once in a While-spells of ii. :"
He intimated that the trouble with
me was that l wanted both. I admit
ted that / had cravings for both.
said 1 thought I'd be a little easier to
get along with If they were more sat-
isfied.
He intimated that was easier TO get
along with than ] ought to be, or than
seemed to think / was. He did not
put 1t in so many words. The p. G.. S.
of M. never sxys anything that can
be got hold Of and answered. Finally,
determined to answer him whether
he had said anything or not.
We'll" | said, II may feel superior
to other people sometimes, l may even
feel superior to myself, bur I haven't
got to the point where / feel superior
to a newspaper-to a whole world at
once. don't try to read it in ten min
utes. / don't try to make a Whole Gay
of the whole world a footnote to my
oatmeal mush. / don't treat the Whole
human race, trooping past my break
fast, as a parenthesis in my own mind.
I don't try to read q great, serious,
boundless thing like a daily neWsoa-
per, unfolded out of starlight, cleaner
of a thousand sunsets around a world,
and talk at the same time 1 don't say
there's nothing In it'-interrupt
planet to chew my food. throw Il PLAN
ct on the floor and look for my hat.
Nations lunging through space
to say good morning to me, continents
flashed around my thoughts seas for
the boundaries of my days delights.
The great God shining over all!
And may He preserve me from ever
reading a newspaper IN ten minutes,
Il have spent as much dme as any
one think in my day, first and last,
in feeling superior to newspapers. i
can remember when l us.1 to enjoy II
very much-the feeling, l mean. I
have spent whole half days at it-go-
ing up and down columns, thinking
they were not good enough for me.
Now when / take UP a morning
newspaper, half dread. halft delight,
l take II up softly. My whole being
trembles in the balance before 1t. The
whole procession of my soul, shabby,
loyeless, provincial, tawdry, Is passed
in review before 1t. 1t Is the grand
stand of the world. The vast and aw-
full rollcall OF things / ought to be-the
thingr | ought TO love-in the great
reaches its way through all my
houghts-through the minutes OF my
days. Where Is thy soul? Oh where
is thy soul2' the morning paper up
and down It's columns calls to me.
There are days that / ache with the
echo Of II until the night Then the
voice that IL IN Il grows gentle with
the daFkness--it may be-and lie stilled
with sleep.
u am not saying Il does not take
very intelligent man 10 read a news
paper in 10 ,minutea-squecze a planet
az breakfast and drop H. ! think IL
docs. But ! am inclined to think taat
the intelligent man who reads news
paper 10 ten minutes. "a exactly the
same kind Of intelligent man Wh0
could spend 4 week reading Il II he