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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
[little newspapers]
It is not always safe to despise little newspapers. A theatrical company was about to visit a town where there is perhaps a larger proportion than usual of people who fail to pay their debts, but make it a matter of conscience to patronise every form of amusement to be had. A certain little weekly paper, failing to receive an advertisement of the show, published an article accusing people of spending in theatrical performances money which properly belonged to their creditors, and threatening that in future they would publish a list of all such people who occupied front seats. The consequence was that during the whole week the company stayed the front seats were conspicuously empty, only about half-a-dozen persons—who presumably pay their debts—occupying them.