Gray, or some modest tint, is preferable to white cardboard for all signs.

The general atmosphere of the place should be such as one would wish to have in his own home--orderly, inviting, cheerful.
The village library ought to preserve for reference a file of local papers; and it seems proper for it to provide for public use a few dailies or weeklies from the nearest cities.

Further than this in this direction it would not seem expedient to go, because better work can be done, with the money newspapers would cost, in other directions.
In fact, where the room is limited, as well as funds, it will often be better to provide no newspapers at all.

Few are unable to get papers to read elsewhere.

The library can well devote itself to the encouraging the reading of other things.