St. Nicholas/Volume 32/Number 4/Advertisements/Back/St. Nicholas Advertising Competition

St. Nicholas League Advertising Competition No. 43.

There is no report due this month, since the time for deciding the “Century of Questions” (Competition No. 42) expired only on January 25, and the work of examining the answers is not yet completed. But we should like our young friends to sharpen their wits and pencils in readiness for carrying off one of the prizes offered for drawings in

Competition No. 43.

The Prizes, amounting to Forty Dollars, are as follows:

One First Prize of Five Dollars

Two Second Prizes of Four Dollars each

Three Third Prizes of Three Dollars each

Four Fourth Prizes of Two Dollars each

and Ten Honor Prizes of One Dollar each.
Which makes twenty prizes, aggregating $40.

These will be awarded to the competitors who shall submit the best drawings under the following conditions. Address:

Advertising Competition No. 43,

St. Nicholas League,

St. Nich‍Union Square, New York.

CONDITIONS.

1. Any one under eighteen years of age may compete, irrespective of any other League competitions. No prize-winners are excluded from winning in advertising competitions.

2. In the upper left-hand corner af your paper, give name, age, address, and the number of this competition (43). Judges prefer paper to be not larger than 12x12 inches,

3. Submit answers by February 25, 1905. Use ink. Write on one side of paper. Do not inclose stamps.

4. Do not inclose request for League badges or circulars. Write separately for these if you wish them, addressing the St. Nicholas League.

5. Be sure to comply with these conditions if you wish to win prizes.

Here is the contest:

Out of the figures

1905

construct a figure of a man or animal, and adapt it to some advertising purpose. You may add very short lines or mere dots to help out your drawing, but the prizes will be awarded to those who make the most effective use of the original figures 1905, since that is the idea of the competition.

Here is a specimen (a poor one of our own) simply to show you how to go to work.

In the old days our forefathers looked to idols and amulets to ward off diseases. To-day we have more confidence in soap and water, especially in such a vegetable soap as

PALM OLIVE

Thus you see you may take slight changes in the figures, so long as they are plainly discernible. A good way to begin is to draw the figures large and cut them out, and see what combinations you can make; and the figures need not be all on the same scale.