The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-19
Mrs. S. w. Scott.

ed, the four-year-old on the settee and
the one-year-old in his mothers arms
III the big rocker, and who doubts
that the calm rest gave them a bet
ter chance of winning? The pretty
little fellows are the grandsons of Mr..
e. c. Gentry, our Bluff Springs cor
respondent, who, with his family, were
during their three days visit to the
Hair.
The writer. after hearing about 800
answers to that question, has no doubt
that the men like the sporting page
best and the women like the social
news, and both like local news and the
press reports-but oh, the exceptions!
Who says women don't read edi-
torials? Consult the register pages and
be convinced. Especially are the short
paragraphs, "the witty remarks on the
| editorial page" as some call them,
ror;,Iar with women. They make me
laugh every day." one said. Mr.. Mack
got many bouquets.
Miss Burnham Popular.
And men read the social news and
are not afraid to say so in writing.
Miss Bonnie Burnham is exceedingly
popular. Many men, as well as women,
expressed a wish to see her-"to see
what she looks like" I'VE read every
thing she writes and | should so like
to tell my wife, who is home sick,
what Bonnie looks like Alas, she did
not come that day. If Miss Burnham' S
picture is put in the paper it will be
cut out and carefully preserved by
q am afraid to say how many adj
mirers.
The sporting page is praised and
| called accurate and complete by all
without exception.
Women read the advertisements
all except the very young girls-"Read
| it all, including ads Read every
line" Read every thing in it" In
| fact, women are the best and closest
| it is read is shown by the requests OF
one reader for the vital statistics to be
inserted every Sunday. Three sun
days this summer you did not have
Them" she said.
The children also read The Journal
| 1t is encouraging to know that boys
and girls p, IA and Is years of age
are reading the press reports, taking
an interest in politics and in the great
world movements. One fourteen-year-
old boy said: Il look every day to see
| if China is really a republic" That
| is promising boy.
The Comic Page.
| Nothing can exceed the popularity
of the comic page, especially with the
children. MY children are crazy fol-
the comic pages was common ex-
preston. Don't say Katzenjammer OF
the children will yell"
| Let us older people hope that none
of the boys and girls will be tempted
| to initiate those comic imps.
| So it is a family paper, read by
| father mother and all the children
also all the kith and kin.
How many send it away? my son
] i Ez1I l. N1xN
Mexico and Mississippi. Never missed
a copy"
Il send it to my son in Galveston
! Texas. He is an ordnance maehinst
Land travels wherever there is a fort
| and the paper follows him without
fall
One proud mother sends it to Europe
to her son, regularly.
| How many of our readers have no.
ticed the uniformally high quality OF
| the poem inserted daily at the head
she cuts them all out and is filling ar
album.
| A studious and earnest young SOL
der from Fort Barrancas particularly
notes Rudyard Kirling's ''If' and THE
| Female of the Species" and Hal
| Gaines reply to that ferocious attack
as being extremely popular among the
soldier boys. Do you remember ''The
Fools Prayer" and that haunting
poem, 'IaZarus?"
The poultry articles, in both the
daily and weekly, are much praised
Better suited to our location thar
those of poultry journals and othel
papers," writes one poultry raiser, anC
! that opinion was endorsed by all 9TH
ers questioned
The large amount of space given tc