New-York tribune., 1911-03-06
PROvERD CONTEST
HITS POPULAR NOTE
From Maine to California the
Queries Pour In Upon
the Manager.
THOUSANDS WANT PRIZES
Many Write of Their Intention
to Persevere and Solve All
the Sixty three Illus
trations.

IL to-day is a blue Monday, buy The
Tribune. and the dolefulness and monotony
Of life will fade away in the interest en-
Rendered not alone by the bright news and
views contained within its columns. but
by the great proverb contest. which has
already enlisted the wit and perseverance
OF young and old. from Maine 20 California.
The contest manager is being flooded with
queries concerning II every day Even yes
terday they poured in and piled up on his
desk 10 take up all his spare time to-day
and make him. too forget the vanity OF all
things.
Many Of the questions can be answered
h. q close study OF the rules or by refer
ence TO the answers printed from time to
time in the contest story, which will ap-
pear every day. But they demonstrate the
insistent appeal which the contest has
made to the love in both young and old OF
a game which calls for imagination and
concentration and the devotion 10 which
will be crowned with such handsome re-
wards.
II the contest interests old Tribune sub
scribers as greatly as they testify 1t does
surely It should appeal even more TO the
man or woman who has never acquired the
Tribune habit and is not yet welded to q
perusal OF its columns. Listen to this fat
terinC note addressed 10 the contest man.
ager:
please enter my name as a contestant
for the Proverb Contest OF your paper
'I am and have been faithful reader OF
your paper for quite few years, TO the
extent OF two copies day
Another faithful subscriber, Of the fair
sex this time. writes:
LAS The New-York Tribune has been the
family newspaper between forty and hfty
years, l am interested in the Proverb Con-
test and desire TO enter therein"
The contest is open TO every one except
employes of The Tribune and their imme-
date families The $4,000 in prizes Offered
for the solution Of the sixty-three pictorial
representations Of old English proverbs In
cludes a splendid touring car player
piano, a beautiful set OF furniture, a motor
boat, a motorcycle and a diamond. Some
one in the family. father or mother. sister
or brother, or perhaps all of them, ought
10 get at least one of the many valuable
prizes.
But as at is better TO have loved and
lost"-so It will be better TO have guessed
friends immerse themselves in this absorb
ing game and TO have lost all the excite
ment and instruction which they get from
it. The following note from an old reader
Of The Tribune hits the nail on the head:
THE Tribune is always full Of interest,
but the Proverb Contest is unique
IT'S of real value beyond the prizes
offered
Il am in for the contest, win or lose"
The contest started on February q. Back
numbers Of the proverb pictures and an
swer blanks may be obtained at the Trib-
une office or by mail A complete list of
the $1,000 worth of prizes is printed in
to-day's issue of The Tribune. Contestants
must not send in any answers until after
the last. or sixty-third. proverb picture has
been published; answers sent in before will
not be counted. To be sure Of COUGHING
HIS answers In the exact language Of the
proverbs guessed, the contestant should buy
the Tribune's Book OF Proverbs, on sale al
the counting room, Nassau and Spruce
streets, which contains the sixty-three
proverbs represented by the pictures.
The best way TO enter the contest or to
keep abreast of II is TO instruct a news
dealer TO leave q Tribune at the door every
morning If your newsdealer cannot sup
ply you regularly. write TO the Contest
Manager. The Tribune. New York City, and
he will mail you a paper daily
The following are some OF the questions
received from contestants with answers
attached:
Answers to Queries.
Q.-Are you supposed 10 send the picture
with the blank? II not. can person have
blank printed, or do We have to use your
paper blanks?-A. u. s.