Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1875 — Family Newspapers. [ARTICLE]

Family Newspapers.

Their value is by no means appreciated, but the rapidity with which people are waking up to their necessity and usefulness, is one of the significant signs of the times. Few families are now content •with one newspaper. The thirst for knowledge is not so easily satisfied, and books, though useful, yea, absolutely necessary in their place, fail to meet the demands of youth or age. Our family newspaper is eagerly sought and its contents devoured; then comes the demand for national and foreign news. Next to the political comes the liteiary and scientific journals. All these are demanded to satisfy the cravings of the active mind. Family newspapers are valuable to material prosperity. They spread before the reader a map on which may be traced •character and progress. If a stranger /Calls at a hotel, he first calls for the newspaper ; if a friend comes from a distance, the next thing after the family greeting ' he inquires for your family paper, and you feel discomfited if you are unable to find ■a late eopy, and confounded if yon are compelled to say you do not take it. Family newspapers are just as necessary to fit a family for its true position in life, as food or raiment. Show us a ragged, -bare-footed boy, rather than an ignorant -one. His head will cover his feet in after life, if he be well supplied with newspapers. He will make his mark in the world, if you gratify that desire for knowledge. Other things being equal, it is a rule that never fails. A family newspaper is a family need. The Republican will be sent to any address, postage prepaid, on receipt of f 1.50.