SOME LITTLE THINGS.

THE FIRST ONE.
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The Fountain is little paper, and so 1t
ought TO be. Not that it has little cause to
advocate, or that its success is of little moment
just the contrary. The nature and very mag
nitude of the temperance reformation is such
that little paper is better fitted TO promote its
be enough to make this very plain. They are
these:


Ittakes but little money to buy it.


1t takes but little time to read it.


II takes but little room to keep ii.


1t takes but little money to buy it. Some per-
sons have SO large necessary expenses to meet
that they must practice strict economy. They
are compelled to give SO many parties, to at
tend SO many balls, to go so often to the thea
tire, and to provide for SO many other pressing
engagements, that regard to economy will
not allow them to indulge in the luxury OF a
newspaper. Were it in their power, they
would gladly encourage the temperance cause,
and pauonize its paper. Alta penny day,
some Of these may be accommodated.
There are also persons whose means are
small. The young man commencing business,
the, poor man with large family, the half
paid female, who plies her weary needle by
early morn and cande-Gght, the errand boy
toiling for the support Of his feeble sisters and
aged mother, the foolish man who wasted his
substance in riotous living, and is seeking
again the paths of wisdom-niany of these love
the temperance cause, and would cheerfully
spare meal to enjoy day by day SO rich a
treat as to receive at their doors little mes
senger 10 tell them about the beautiful things
Of temperance. tits well, then, that tempe
rance paper be small. S.


II takes but little time to read ii. The Foun-
tain is thrown into our dwellings, our stores,
and our workshops. We run it'over before
going to work in the morning, or in leisure
moment during the day. Ii there is'any thing
good in it, il is the sooner got at if not, less
time is los, in looking for it. And il is not well
to lose much time in looking for that which,
even after diligent search, may not be found
at all. A wise editor viii gather into little
sheet more good matter than a foolish editor
will put in large one. Though the Foun-
tain, then, be little paper yet if the editor be
wise, it will be all the better for being little.


IL takes but little room to keep ii. If the
Fountain prove to be really good, there will
be some who will wish to keep it. If be
stored with rich materials, some will love, in
leisure hour, TO recur to its pages for amuse-
meat and information. A large paper is SO
bulky that few will be troubled with keeping,
and 90 unwieidy, that though kept, fewer still
will use IT,. Let the Fountain, then, remain
little paper, and like little pet, it will have
the better chance of being fondled.


But the mere fact of the Fountain being lit
lie i, Of itself, no recommendation. Ifit re-
ssmtles the diamond in size, ii must also in
value Ill -.-----.----~.-- ~ 'ta