Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-16
THE RIGHT KIND VALUABLE.
How the Sunday Paper is Esteemed
In the Family Circle.

when in Washington about eight
months ago." said M. c. Crawford, a gen.
tleman interested in philanthropic affairs in
Boston, to Star reporter at the New Will
lard, II CHANGED to pick up at the hotel
newsstand one Sunday morning a copy of
The Star. AS have been regular visitor
at the capital for many years, and had al
ways been a reader of The Star during my
sojourn. I noted with interest a Sunday
edition of that paper and perused 1t with
more than the perfunctory attention that
one usually gives to such matters On last
Sunday, my first here on this trip, it again
came under my observation. and It's elabo-
ration and improvement is worthy of re-
mark.
THE Sunday paper has come to stay in
the American home, and when it's columns
are filled with attractive. interesting read
ing matter, 1t is an addition to the day
which cannot now be spared. This is espe-
cially true where Objectionable and mis-
leading advertisements are excluded with
as much rigor as is news and reading mat
ter of this class. In my section for long
time there was prejudice, more or less,
among some classes against the Sunday
edition, but 1t is wearing away against
periodicals that eschew sensationalism and
which furnish to their readers entertain
ing matter BETTING the day. In the hurly-
burly of this age of savage commercalisn,
and in the mad haste to get to business and
then to rush home again, the average news
paper reader but scans the headlines of
matter In which he Is not personally or
commercially interested. But on Sunday it
is another matter. The magazine sections
Of the Sunday editions are usually filled
with good and instructive reading upon all
varieties of topics, while the special fea-
lures reserved for that day, and which
many newspapers go to great expense and
extremes to collate, are looked forward to
from week to week in families. and grad
ually become one of the silent but I'M
portant features of our everyday lives.
From my point of view, therefore, 1 con-
slider a good, clean Sunday edition as pub
lie educator. It's readers have abundant
time to peruse and to digest its contents,
and the information derived and the sug-
gestions offered create lasting and bene-
fetal impressions. l am interested In re-
ligious and philanthropic work, and the
weekly epitome OF such matters given In
many Sunday papers, and which appear to
receive full and careful exemplifcation in
The Star, find to be of greatest service to
me, as l have little doubt such informa-
ton Is to its readers. L have found II quite
upon such subjects from mere desultory
and casual reading. but much useful
information Is afforded to those interested
in this kind of work from the compilations
thereon to be found in the Sunday editions
Of a good family paper. In church and
phifanthropic work one Is mostly absorbed
in the doings Of ones own congregation, and
from the very nature of things 1t Is quite
difficult to learn what Is going on in SINH
lar channels elsewhere in the city, ex-
cept Indirectly, save through the church
and religious columns OF the Sunday pa
pers. Here 1t is possible each week to
keep posted, as 1t were, as to the happen
ings OF other congregations, and for this
the Sunday edition of a family paper is q
benefit to the family.