Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work

gentleman to write to the sign painter and find out what could be done. Th

nt rural advertising," he remarke

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thing to do. I'm sic

e lawyer

our idea?"

advertising signs from the

itan's ta

h the b

r grew th

's impossible

to try. I want something to occupy myself-something

worthy your effort. If you want to be up and doi

themselves in our prettiest scenes. My instinct revolts at the desecration.

rhaps, buy the privilege of maintaining the rocks of the glen free from advertising; but th

advertising sign o

eir fortunes by this style of advertising. The rural districts are their

right has any soap maker to flaunt his wares in

that the manufacturers consider themselves justified in covering eve

ent. But there

will take his place. They

s a year for a roc

ositions, and in the aggregate our

earance of their

tson s

realize on appearances, but they can

at's all. These farmers seem

I wish you kne

ought to bring us closer together,

to buy them

ere must be some ref

misdirected. He wanted the young man to rouse himself and take an interest in life, and if his antagonism to advertising signs would effect

fifty dollars each, with the understanding that no other competing signs were to take their place. Kenneth promptly ma

h the agreement made with him. All day the two men scrubbed the rocks faithfully, assisted at odd times by their impatient employer; but the thick splashes of paint clung desperately to the rugged surface of the rock, and the task was a hard one. When evening

to erase those three signs; but after ten days they had vanished completely, and the

terviewed Mr. Webb and found that he received no money for the sign; but the man contended that the paint preserved his barn from the weather on that side. So Kenne

county, and was the subject of much merriment among the farmers. Some of them were intelligent enough to admire the young Quixot

position to discard the advertisements. Indeed, some were proud of them, and believed it a mark of

; and he took a hand in the fight himself. He decided to call a meeting of the neighboring farmers at the district school-house

because they expected to be amused by hearing the boyish master of Elmhurst "lecture at 'em." So they filled the little room to overflowing, an

holder in a breakfast-food factory, which painted signs wherever it could secure space. These signs were not works of art, but they

and believed that this afforded a good chance to meet some of his constituents and make a favorable impression.

al one, so entirely did the Representative dominate it. But Mr. Wats

iked him; so when Kenneth rose they pr

sion they could not "talk back," as they usually did in private when he tried to argue with them. So he exhorted them earnestly to keep their homes beautiful and free from the degradation of advertising, and never to permit glaring commercialism to mar the scenery around them. He told them what he had been able to accomplish b

mildly; but it was chiefly for the reaso

atch the lack of sympathy in the audience, sto

brated Eagle-Eye Breakfast Food, three packages for a quarter. They sold this breakfast food to thousands of farmers, to give them health and strength to harvest another crop of oats. Thus he "benefited the community going and coming." What! Should he not advertise this

t he wished especially to call their attention to was the fact that he had served the district faithfully as Representative, and deserved their suffrages for renomination. And then he began to discuss political questi

son, angrily, "is not a gentlema

my speech might have create

n, laying a kindly hand on the youth's sho

e myself beaten," protested Kenneth, a

e done. Perhaps that rascally Hopkins was right when he a

lean-to do away with these disreputa

Mr. Watson, gravely puffing his pip

carried him through the ordeal, and now that it was over he was chagrined to think that the speech h