Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-10

is 'star." The usual pay for the per formance is SIPS day.
 Another high grade of street adver- tising is the jackass richly eaparisoned and covered with long blanket of bright colors, bearing some advertise ment in glaring letters. On the back of the beast is boy attired like a cir GUS prince. This form costs the man who believes in letting the public know what he has about three dollars a day, but it is said to bevery effective.
 The giant-that is, the man on stilts -is a familiar type to all who live in or who visit the cities. When he is a good acrobat, and doesn't fall down too many times and get mixed up in a street jam, he is worth about one dol lar day The bicycle firm that has been advertising it's wheels with four-story specimen of it's work ridden through the stfeets by an expert has attracted some attention, but has been forbidden the use of the congested highways.
 .'Yes, it is queer business" said an old advertising man the other day, '.and few people realize the extent to which it has grown. Advertising out doors is older than advertising in the newspapers. Men began putting up signs long before they utilized the col umns of the journals. The daily paper first put them in the way of using printers ink, but in the start they were very sparing of the space they employed. The merchant in New York who first used half page was looked upon by his competitors as crazy and they all predicted his faiI- ure. Robert Bonner was regarded as insane when he came out with full page in one of the New York dailies re- iterating one fact about his business for column after column. Then there was run on newspaper advertising and the outdoor advertising waned. But within the last few years the out door business has started up again and every possible form is adopted, while the newspaper methods are us fierce as ever. People of the present age are ever looking for novelty. If your method of advertising is not bi- zarre you are wasting your money"
 And it is the desire for the unique, for the odd and the sensational, that has created the sandwich man" who trudges wearily up and down the streets for his pittance of 40 cents; that has made possible the street ac- tor.'' with his monkeyish grimaces and awkward gestures; the giant on his wabbly stilts; the circus prince and the jackass, and the other monstrosi- ties of tic street who make fools of themselves that they may not die in the gutter, and "keepmoving" because there is something in it.''
 FREDERICK BOYD STEVENSON.
 Raising yioiets.
 Many worn-out farms in Virginia have of late been utilized for the growing of violets. The industry is spreading rapidly. and some of the most successful growers are women. They employ small negro boys to car ry on the work, which is not Iabo- rious. The greater part of the yield is taken by Philadelphia dealers. The great violet-growing center, however, according to Dr. B. T. Galloway, of the department of agriculture, is Poughkeepsie, N Y All violets from this district find ready market in New York city, the flowers generally bringing the raisers not less than a cent each. The average yield of a single plant is 50 flowers a year. and with sgood care hundred may be obtafned. In the Virginia violet farms. after the young offshoots have been transplanted into open frames. rolling wooden screens are used on the top of the frames to regulate the amount of sunshine which shall be admitted to the plants. = Youths Companion,