Do Everything; A Handbook for the World's White Ribboners (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. THE POWER OP THE PRESS. The way to make a thing known is?to make it known. This is the alpha and omega of success in the Press department, but all along my way in life I have found a great variety of men and women who seem to feel that to make things known is somehow or other to make a great mistake, even to commit a mild form of crime. My own nature and outlook are wholly different. I believe that the shades are so heavy over the earth that we have seen the merest glint of right through some chink, and we who hold up the sunglass of our individuality catch the glint of that and flash it round in every direction to the utmost of our power. There is nothing so very private after all; the secrets are all open secrets, everybody reads between the lines the things one has left out. Whoever minimizes mystery has helped to brighten knowledge. Why should we make so much ado about the trifling little things we hoard? Are they really worth the hoarding? God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. Love and light and life seem to be largely interchangeable. The more a Society is pure and good the less mystery and secrecy there will be in it. Let us then tell all the good things we may, and think as little evil as we can, that we may have little to tell but good, and then let us tell it out and keep on telling it. In every village, town and city of the world in these days, there is, as a rule, some sort of newspaper to establish which cost the proprietor a snug sum of money. To keep it going makes a constant demand upon his purse. We women could no more have started these papers than we could have made a world, but if we have the tact and talent, or to state it more correctly, the good common sense to put a mortgage on a few square inches every week in the col...