Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-25
WHY WOMEN SHOULD READ THE
 PAPERS,

Dear Social Corner Friends: How to Read the Newspapers was the subject of a lecture given at the Y. M. c. A. in this city very recently. I was not af- forded the pleasure of hearing the lec- ture, but it couldn't have been any thing but exceedingly interesting.
 The question Is asked many times: Why don't more women read the newspapers?
 Admitting that the woman with a big, or a Iittle household to manage cannot very readily see where the time for reading the daily news is going to come from, yet every systematic wom- an has each task laid out according to the system on which her household is run. Now why not squeeze in some where each day a few moments for reading the newspaper?
 Then when someone asks you: Did you read that article in the paper about So and So, or some important happening in such a place." you can at once begin an interesting conversation with the questioner.
 The newspaper has one advantage over the fiction storybook, which is this: In the daily news we read about real people and real places. In one sense it is a story of what the other part of the world is doing and how our brothers and sisters accomplish this and that.
 How to read The Courier and get the best out of it is what I'm aiming at
 First-No woman is loyal to the cause if she doesn't at least scan the Social Corner through as soon as the first opportunity comes to her after receiving her paper. Then at another time she will read every letter through and isn't it surprising how many new methods of doing things there are? No matter how well we may think we can do a certain thing, we are sure to find someone who has a newer and better method than our own.
 Second-l never understood or, rather, rightly understood, the high cost of living question till I began to study the good plain views in The Farmers Talk to Farmers and, being one of the city folks who do so much l1i-yiing, I must bear the hardness of the high prices, or go back to the farm and become a producer.
 Third-Never fail to read what The Man Who Talks has to say, and if one | of his paragraphs doesn't interest you, some of the others will. He talks on so many helpful subjects, always
  1 a concise way, you will surely be wiser 1 for having stored away his ideas. Fourth-A religious crank once re- | marked that he would not allow a | newspaper to be read in his house on 1 the Sabbath. The result was his | grown-up daughter went to a neigh 1 bor's house to read her paper. It's my opinion this religious crank had never read The Parsons Sermons, else he would have seen that these religious talks in the newspapers only give a l clearer understanding of the teachings of the Bible
 fifth-Dont skip the editorial para | graphs. They contain individual opin- ions which may help us to form an | opinion or an important point about which we may never even had an opln- ion before. Resides, they help to straighten out many discussions on | different issues.
 SlXth-If you want to be truly amused, read the editorial notes They hit everything and everybody, and they do it in such a polite manner that nc | one can be offended
 Seventh-The general news will helr Us to keep polished up on geography,