126 UTILITY OF NEWSPAPERS. 



a bench to sit on, and you will have before you a pretty fair picture 

 of the house and furniture. Three more subjects remain to be 

 spoken of. 



First, the papering. Any one might reasonably be surprised at 

 the idea of papering such a house as above described, for two 

 reasons : that there should be the means for such a luxury here, and 

 at the way in which it is done. Roof, boards, rafters, the sides of the 

 house up and down stairs, the doors, and the cupboard are all pa- 

 pered — the articles used being anything in the shape of book, 

 pamphlet, or newspaper. I have spent more dull, gloomy mornings 

 than a few, reading the titles, looking at the pictures, or reading the 

 stories, pasted at the head and sides of my bed, and you will be 

 surprised at the following list of literature which actually occurs on 

 the walls of our palatial mansion on this out-of-the-way Labrador 

 coast. I give you the list directly as I took it myself from the pa- 

 pers whose titles they represent : The Montreal Witness, Sunday 

 School Times, Advance, Child's World, Christian World, Child 

 at Home, Protestant, Apples of Gold, Well Spring, Herald of Mercy, 

 American Messenger, Juvenile Presbyterian, Young Reapers, Chris- 

 tian Messenger, British Messenger, Home Missionary, Christian 

 Family Almanac, Nation, Youth's Temperance Banner, A German 

 paper. Sabbath School Messenger, Boston Journal, Springfield Re- 

 publican, Christian Soldier and Christian Guest, Child's Paper, Na- 

 tional Quarterly Review, Youth's Companion, Cottager and Artisan, 

 Northern Messenger, Harper's Weekly, Every Saturday, Our Lit- 

 tle Ones, Life Boat, Foreign Missionary, Young Missionary, Sab- 

 bath School Visitor, Colporteur and Dominion Monthly, — all these 

 I saw, and there might have been others that escaped me. Although 

 it may surprise you to see a list of thirty-nine papers, most of whose 

 names are household words at home, the way in which the people 

 get them is also curious ; it being, I am informed, a regular cus- 

 tom with the Mission to send, at Christmas time, a bundle of old 

 papers — of which they are always receiving a large number — to 

 each family living near. About two weeks after the receipt of these, 

 and usually just after the holidays which here embrace the twelve 



