The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-04-14
YOUNG LADY FIRST,
AWARD::$1O CASH
MISS ELIZABETH GRIERSoN
TOPS THIS LIST
Ruth Davis Winner of Second
Place and Roy Hodapp Is
Third In Line; Twenty Three
Brain Productions In All Were
Received By Committee.

Received By Committee.
Prize winners in the essay con .
test conducted by the Advertising
Forum OF the Civic and Commerce
association in conjunction with
| Open House" were announced to-
day by the board Of judges appoint
ed by the Forum for choosing the
best essays for the award OF casn
| prizes. twenty three essays were
received by the committee.
. Miss Elizabeth Grierson OF 1915
North Broad street was awarded
first place from the long list of en-
trants. For her efforts she will re-
ceive a cash prize of $40, the check
, having already been sent by officers
of the Forum. Second place goes to
Miss Ruth Davis of 900 South Front
street and third position is awarded
TO Roy Hodapp. Second place car
ries with it prize of 81 and thiro
place earns the author 81
It was significant fact that in
choosing business establishments
who were considered leaders in
their lines by the essaylsts, it was
seldom that any two agreed. In
many classes there were three diff
ferent choices for first place among
the three who were awarded prizes
in the competition.
Three Essay Judges
| Essay judges were +. ]. Sperry
of the Hubbard Milling company
Miss Clara G.. Robinson and Miss
Belle Ranney, both members of the
high school faculty.
Many expressions of praise for
the open House" event here were
written into the essay: They des
cribed the service TO the business
of Mankato that such an even,
brings and that the occasion was
the incentive to the mosl thorough
kind of spring housekeeping was
agreed by all the writer's who han
| died the subject.
| The effective cooperation of all
bus'fess houses was attested by the
fact that in some one of the essays
practically every participating bu-
siness house was mentioned for
some good point that was brought
out during the three days of the
show.
Several of the writer's expressed
the hope that open House" would
be made a regular occasion in Man
kato.
The essay of Miss Griersou
which was considered the best ef-
fort in the big mass of material
submitted is appended.
Open House week in Mankatc
has been a distinct success. Even
the babies have heard of it. A little
boy passed me on the street the
other day, looking anxiously al
every window, Juggling excitedly al
his mothers hand asking 'Muzzer
where liza Open House, Muzzer?
wanna see a Open House, Muzzer!
every window but, unlike the little
boy, have attempted the much
more difficult task selecting the
best window in each class. Each
merchant was so evidently tryins
to be the best in his class and al
succeeded in being so surprisingl!
good that to discriminate at all wa!
hard and to make a choice wei
nigh impossible. But after due deli
beration | have selected the follow
ing Glass One.
In Glass One I believe that tn,
George Brett company's window!
are the best The little lavendel
hat window is very good. There are
just enough hats to carry out thu
color idea and they are well arrang
ed. Some are higher, some lowe
than others. The hats with up
standing bows and so forth are OF
high pedestals, the sailors an,
other f1atter hats paced nearer TIT
floor, while little round hat will
lot of fuzzy feathers and ball
gives just the needed touch of airy
ness.
J 1T is the Gifted effect which Il
so admirable in all of Brett's win
dows. They have learned, what is
to my notion, the big lesson in ar
ranging wearing apparel-havi VIM
; very few large articles in window
but hose few very attractive. The,
have another city trick which i
uncommon here-that is, displayin:
all the accessories to smart cos
tume-b2g, scarf, parasoi, novall.
necklace, and so forth-about tn
model Their background is yer,
simple but effective because of tn
, bright tones of most of the gar
ments placed before it.
In Glass Two
, Glass Two: All the furnitur
stores have portrayed in each win
dow one whole room. Many hay
r have neglected to add those touch
es which turn a collection OF furni
/ ture into n real room. / have chose
Johnson Boman's south window
showing a dining room, party be
cause the color scheme is we
worked out, partly because as
. dining room the home touch is nc
; so essential and partly because SUI
l fioient home atmosphere is give
= by a large basket of nastursiums o
}. the center table. The rug harmon
e ICES we'll with the painted insets c
r the furniture. The French windo'
e is very smart and the bright mas
tursiums Hven up every thing an
look very well against the flores
:, scene beyond the window. How
ever. the chairs would conform bet
q ter to the rules of decoration if the
were placed parallel TO the tab
q instead of faced toward the street
although that position might NJ
have served so well to display thel
Then too the centerpiece. Is 10
light for the whole decorative
scheme and does not suit the shar
e of the table well. A runner in
= darker tone or even the bare tab
would be more harmonious.
u Glass Three: For Glass Three
+ should Judge Manderfeld's windo
: the winner. They have done some
thing different from the furnitui
stores in not trying to show or
, whole actual room in a single sma
c window Yet they have spggeste
1 u ~ 4. -. $50 wxrr.