OBEROS FOOD PRODUCTS SUS The Gift of Gifts No. 1,234,567,890 Christmas, Member's Card. (Not Transferable.) -1902 HIS certifies that the holder, if a steady user of Grape-Nuts, is entitled to LIFE MEMBERSHIP, for a long and happy, life, in the HEALTH and COMFORT ASSOCIATION of AMERICA, and his Happiness is guaranteed. Also to a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, A. Goode Reason, President. There is a Reason LONDON LANCET, the great medical authority, says of Grape-Nuts: "The grains are brown and crisp, with a pleasant taste. . . . . . The preparatory process undoubtedly converts the food constituents into a much more digestible condition than in the raw cereal. . . . . The features worthy of note are the excellent proportion of proteid, mineral matters and soluble carbohydrates per cent. Our analysis shows that it is a NUTRITIVE OF A HIGH ORDER, since it contains the CONSTITUENTS OF A COMPLETE FOOD and in an EASILY ASSIMILABLE STATE." Edward M. May, M. D., of Mt. Zion, Ill., says: "I desire to inform you of my short but very satisfactory experience with Grape-Nuts as a food. I had nervous dyspepsia for over a year, and lost flesh to 122 pounds. I concluded it. was time to throw physic to the dogs in my case, and looked around for some concentrated, palatable prepared food. I got hold of GrapeNuts and began using it four times a day, exclusively for breakfast with milk; for luncheon and dinner as dessert.. The heartburn, waterbrash, palpitation and other symptoms soon disappeared, and I can now eat a square meal and feel good afterwards. I weighed yesterday and had gained 18 pounds in a month. And the end is not yet." Grape-Nuts Dearest Diana SHOES December 20, 1902 I shall answer your bright letter fully when more at leisure, க out So Soon They're Don't buy any Wear dear at any price, but, what is much worse. they ruin your feet _ which I Cannot permit Your mother has wore the "Sorosis "shoss for years, and says you "Cannot do better than follow in her footsteps." I don't know whether she saw the Joke!) And you will not leading the Buy the "Scrosis" shoes for Misses, advice of your hurried but always Mifs Diana Walker NOTE.-Sorosis Shoes for Misses-also for their parents and brothers--are made by A. E. LITTLE & Co., Lynn, Mass. St. Nicholas League Advertising Competition, No. 19. As announced in the last number of ST. NICHOLAS, the competition for this number is to be practical. We have all been amusing ourselves over puzzles, patchwork, and so on, for several months; but of course you have been bright enough to see that all the work has been suggested by a desire to make you familiar with the good points of the advertisements in your magazines. You have examined and re-examined these, turned them inside out and outside in, to and fro and roundabout, until you could stand up in an "advertising school"— such as our own! — and answer questions about the advertising pages of ST. NICHOLAS as if they were your geography lessons, possibly even better. But just as in the merry, merry days of school-time there suddenly arrives the awful Examination Day, when the cruel, hard teachers try to find out how much you know you know, you know,- so here we mean to inquire what you have learned about making advertisements real, true, black and blue Advertisements that will help great, big, sober-minded, money-making bearded business men to secure customers. For-we don't mind confessing to you privately, and for your own particular little ears — the object of the ST. NICHOLAS advertisers is to sell the goods they tell about. We want you to help them. Possibly in reading over the various advertisements you have had the thought that you could make better ones. We'd like to see you do it. We are going to invite all the League members to produce for use in the March, 1903, number of ST. NICHOLAS a set of advertisements so strong, so good, so practical, that the firms and the business men will let us show them to the public with the proud announcement: All the full-page advertisements in this March number are the work of the St. Nicholas League members. Can you work up to that standard? We believe you can and we invite you to try. Here is our proposition: FIFTY DOLLARS IN PRIZES. For the best page advertisements received under the conditions, these prizes will be awarded: One First Prize of Five Dollars, Three Second Prizes of Three Dollars each, $5.00 9.00 10.00 26.00 $50.00 These thirty-five prizes will be awarded to the makers of the best page advertisements received before December 25th, under the usual League regulations which will be sent upon a request enclosing a stamped and addressed envelope. Address your competing work: ADVERTISING COMPETITION 19, ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE, UNION SQUARE, New York. I. You may select any page advertisement from the ST. NICHOLAS advertising pages of the numbers for October, November, or December, 1902, and may then make a new page advertisement for that business house. Your advertisement need not be on the same subject exactly, but must, of course, be suitable for that firm to print in the March ST. NICHOLAS, 1903. II. You may submit not more than three designs. These may be pictures and text ready for reproduction, or merely the pictures, and a copy of the text to be set up in type. You may put much or little in the page, so long as you make an attractive advertisement. III. Add your name, address, age, and the usual certificate that work is original. Work must be neat and unfolded. The work must be your own, but you may consult your elders and receive criticism and advice from them. The pictorial work may be decorative, artistic, or photographic, but in black and white, not colors. Besides the above prizes, an extra payment of $3.00 or more will be made for all advertisements used by the business houses for which they are designed — whether prize-winners or not. Report on Competition 16 will be given next month. Owing to the space required by the above announcement, and also to the difficulty of verifying the solutions in the letter-diagrams, the prize-winners in that competition (see the September ST. NICHOLAS) cannot be announced until next month. We beg the indulgence of the young competitors, and advise them to devote themselves so industriously to this December competition that the time will slip by without their becoming impatient. Alice in Blunderland Do you know how Alice, after her experiences in Wonderland, came to know the funny people of Blunderland"? It was through the kindness of the Chevalier de Shears and Mademoiselle Mucilage—the queer people you see pictured here. Their mottoes were "Let us have pieces" and "A place for nothing and nothing in its place." "Alice in Blunderland” is an illustrated booklet sug- Sent postpaid for Two Two-Cent Stamps. Address ST. NICHOLAS ADVERTISING COMPETITIONS A The Pearline Girls PEARLINE has heard much praise for the Girls of its advertisements during the past year. They were a good introduction to a good article. More PEARLINE Girls, however, are wanted. Though not a member of St. Nicholas League, PEARLINE has been interested in the League's advertising and other regular competitions. It believes that it must look to these workers, the bright boys and girls of the country, for new ideas of beauty applicable to its use. PEARLINE wishes for its advertisements attractive pictures of girlsgirls illustrating the various uses of PEARLINE-pictures suggesting an idea in harmony with PEARLINE. To this end it offers $100.00 in Cash Prizes The Competition is open to any reader of St. Nicholas who has an Idea.... Mere pictures of attractive girls, however, will not do. Camera or artist's pencil must be enforced with a good PEARLINE suggestion. Study the PEARLINE Girls of the 1902 advertisements. Improve upon them. |