Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-17

An OlQeT SeneTaLlOn has pduScu III lIa
busy round to bow its head at the pass
ing of an old friend as the Youths
Companion ends it's long career, merged
with the American Boy.
so the Youths Companion passes.
says the Albany Evening News; lit
follows the trend of the times and Is
merged with the American Boy. This
announcement brings back wealth OF
happy memories to men Of middle age
and men, too, who are old and in the
chimney corner of life" continued this
100 years it has been, what its name
implies, the companion of the youth OF
the land. Some of the stories still linger
in the memory of those who have left
their boyhood far behind"
The Springfield Illinois State Regis
ter considers the news almost like
hearing of the death of an old friend
and thinks 1.-The passing OF this maya
zine will be sincerely regretted by its
friends and admirers, old and new, In
all parts of the country. However, Its
memory will long live, and under the
capable management of the American
Boy it is to be expected that much OF
its spirit and many of its traditions will
be perpetuated." predicts this paper
"attuned. as they necessarily would
have had to be, to the changing needs
Of the juvenile population, present and
future"
1.-THE passing Of the Youths Com
panion recalls the fact that it was es-
tablished by Nathaniel p. Willis, a
friend of Poe" remarks the Richmond
News Leader. which thinks this fact
may have had something to do with its
popularity in Virginia" The Flint
hnuhnnd f.
tachment to the magazine, declares,
Fortunate are those persons who pos
sess bound files of the Companion, not
because they are particularly valuable
to collectors, but because of the many
pleasant memories they reawaken.
Noting how many newspapers, both
great and small, commented editorially
on the passing of that century, OLD
landmark of the juvenile world, the
Lansing State Journal concludes,
seemingly about nine-tenths Of the
editorial writer's Of the country had
been brought up on 1t"
That the magazine had qualities that
endeared it to its readers to an unusual
degree is brought out in many OF the
editorials on the subject. Men and
women whose memories OF youth are
coIored by such events as the Centen-
NAL and Columbian Expeditions will re-
cali the miscellaneous delights conveyed
to them by its pages, the absorbing
serials, the stirring or touching or
laughter-provoking. short stories. the
with morals. the instructions and dia-
grams for making everything from col
ored wax flowers to electric BELLS
such is the description OF the weekly
given by the Little Rock Arkansas
Gazette.
"The Youths Companion furnished
recreation and diversion and contributed
its full share to character bunolng, Is
the tribute of the Roanoke Times. which
considers that cit played useful ano
creditable part in guiding and molding
the future manhood of America in the
late COS and In the earlier years of the
present century," Although this jour-
nal comedies the magazine "is In good
hands in intrusting its destinles 10
those who prepare and publish the
American Boy" still 1t says. Just the
same, its passing from the held OF 1uve-
nile publications is noted with genuine
regret by those of us who read 1t and
| loved it and were helped by It,"
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Attractive pictures are drawn Of the
welcome the magazine received In the
home of q generation or more ago. says
| the New York Herald Irlpune. by
candlelight, in the pleasant, prosperous
days before the Civil War, father en-
| loved the Youths Companion with the
children after tea. BY Oil lamps, in the
sterner years afterward, its stories. Jokes
and poems and, unrelentingly, its edu-
cational articles were read aloud after
supper by parents who were not sure
that so much excitement and entertain
ment were wise. A Youths Companion
then amused family for full week
without change Of program" the fam
] room on one of those long Winter eve
nings' such as they used to have; a cen.
ter table with light, work basket ant
q dish of apples on it, and some one
reading aloud to entranced children til
! bedtime interrupted the story at its yer,
best part
The Kansas City Times describes thu