Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-03

1t seemed as il every villa, even the
quite smart ones. did their own wash
ing. The gardens-which Sally told
me 80 call back yards-were just as
full of clean clothes as the meadows
were of advertisement hoardings. and
| rather wondered why some enterpris-
ing agents didn't so around and offer
the people big prices for painting ad-
vertisementS on their petticoats and
shirts.
We tore through such charming
places with fascinating houses built
of wood. among parks of feathery
green trees, that l was sure Newport
could be no prettier, but Mrs. Ess Kay
spoiled the most picturesque one for
me by saying that it was practically
settled by retired butchers and tailors
According to Mrs. Ess Kay and her
brother all you have to do to be sure
of being rich i'll America is to decide
to be either a taller or butcher, so
it seems quite simple, and I'm sur
prised that everybody doesn't do it.
Only if you do. it appears there is no
use in your going to Newport until
you've lived it down, which, Of course.
must be drawback.
Just as ! had got rather giddy from
looking out of the window. Il boy lex
actiy like the boys in melodrama who
begin by selling papers and end by
saving the heroine from the villain)
came into the car, piled up to his
head with novels and magazines. He
scattered lot over us. like mamma,
without asking US to pay, but just as
I had got passionately interested in Il
short story he came back and began to
gather everything up. Seeing that l
chung TO my lot, Potter bought them all
for me before l could stop him.
There were two books and four
| magazines, with superlatively good
looking, well Groomed young men and
| divinely lovely girls for the heroes and
heroines. The story was most inter-
| ested in had Il hero like Mr.. Brett; but
| it was disappointing in the end. be-
| cause he married u short plump girl
| with black eyes. and somehow it
| spoiled the realism, as couldn't fancy
he would really have cared so dread
fully for girl like that. Anyway. it
put me out of the mood for reading
any more stories and l began glanc-
ing over the advertisements. At least,
glanced at first, but soon was alb
sorbed; for they were wonderful.
/ had never dreamed that there We're
such kind, thoughtful men in business
as the ones who advertised in those fat
American magazines-and so clever,
too; they seemed to have spent their
whole past lives simply in studying
things. so that eventually they could
make you happy and save you trouble.
They lived only for that, those in
credihiy Lice men. There we're photo
graphs of some of them with their adj
vertisements, so that you could know
what they were really like and have
even more confidence in them than you
would if you hadn't seen their style
of features. There were two or three
whose profi!es could never get to feel
at home with, even if had been born
with one of them; but the majority
were brave. energetic-oh. terribly en-
ergetic looking men, as indeed they
would need to be If they were really
to accomplish all the things they prom
Used, not only for you but for the hun
dredS of thousands of other people who
test.
There were things like this in the
magaZines-all the magazines:
Listen to me, miss Tor madam.
have something 10 say which will in.
terest you. Do you want a perfect
complexion? Don't move. Sit still in
. your chair. Cnt out this coupon. Slip
1t into stamped envelope and we
, will give you what you want by re
turn of post"
"Why suffer? You have headache
i We have the cure. We ask nothing
, better than to take away the one anC
J give you the other"
Let us lend you a beautiful dia
; mond ring to wear until you are tiret
! of it. When you are, we will take
back, and return you all but per cen
of your money"
Don't come to us. Let uss come t,
you and bring you something. Yo,
have always wanted health, wealth
! wisdom
, 1--WE would like to give you SOM
J friendly advice. We don't want re,
cent for it."
You are going to have a party, an,
, you are worried. Don't worry. Jus
; phone to US and we will arrang
; everything for you better than yol
could yourself, with no trouble to 70,
, and your servants"
There were so many splendid thing
+ to have. to wear and to eat advertise,
t in the same kind, fatherly way, tina
. felt as il | had unconsciousl,
t yearned for each one of them NOR
than for anything else in my life. an,
, now it had been put into my head il
4 all its fatal fascination, couldn't pos
5 sibly exist another day without send
, ing for it., to. one in that procession. o
' noble. self sacrificing American adve.
Users l felt, too, that if anything dis
: agreeable should happen to me, like
!, railway or motor car accident, coul,
a spend the rest Of my existence Alyin