Show 5 AL jpe 1111 g Cy Impel pee A ll G 5 M V te 1111 t CROSS one of the display windows ACROSS A of a local sign painters establishment establishment 1 is 18 the following philo philosophical philosophical philosophical announcement We are not superstitious superstitions but we do believe in signs If It he is 13 the man responsible for some of the absurdities ot of spelling seen In signs about Salt SaIt Lake he will wm not be a valuable promoter of ot the proposed Good Signs movement whatever his declaration of ot principles Who spells the and why and how nobody knows Sign painters are strong on sound and sense but it 11 is not in their line to care how things look Or If It it Is they may have the diabolical advertising sense that knows a correct sign attracts far less atten tion than a misspelled one Who Tho o that has seen It could fail tall to look again and again at the commission mans masterpiece and which sounds all right but somehow looks peculiar For weeks an apartment house re recently recently recently built had a large brass sign over the entrance giving the name of the The spelling at attracted attracted more notice than the building bull ding It is said that one p was finally elim dim mated with some difficulty by a resi rest dent of the neighborhood who claimed it got grot on his nerves In the Trunks Finished apartments Cloths press pressed ed Confectionary and Stationary are others seen about the city that are not strong on orthography One that says Stationary Cigars for Cor want of correct spelling and punctuation must convey an impression somewhat dam darn damaging i aging to the owners business Sometimes lack of ot space is ble for absurd mistakes Across the front of ot one store Is the announcement Family Groceries On the side of the building bunding where the space was limited it Is painted in this manner F Grocer ies Some large furniture vans which once bore the Inscription Van and Storage Company now carry In the athe same space and Storage Com Corn pany which the passerby may inter interpret interpret interpret pret as he pleases Some one is re responsible responsible responsible for Cor this on others of the big wagons Our Business is Hotel de do Horse Is the sign over a livery stable that makes one wish he knew French well enough to say sa what Is the matter atter with it And this which probably means something A or a week will do is calculated to give a person jimmies American Shine Parlor does not altogether carry conviction as to the nationality of the proprietors In front of a local bookstore Is the announcement Beautiful Homes 5 cents which Is undoubtedly the best real estate bargain of the year Another of a new establishment has made a hit This Store Will Open With a Fine Line of Ladles Furnishings and Tin ware Shoes Shined Inside promises more than is intended for the money and Your Souls Mended While You Tou Walt Wait has bas a no practical rather than ethi ethical ethical ethical cal Intention Sometimes a play on words makes maltes an amusing sign Sharp Flats were se seriously seriously seriously named and this seen on a Main street entrance once aroused amusement Summer Drinks Summer gummer Not Yours Sheely has been adopted as a slogan by a local shoe merchant Dont Go Across the Street to be Robbed Come In Here helped one dealer in his campaign against a rival clothing store Not so was the market man who seeing the sell seIl sellIng seIlIng Ing lag power of a card on his neighbors stand Figs from Smyrna adopted It for himself and wrote Eggs E gs from Smyrna which did not altogether guarantee their freshness A repair shop Invites the public to Bring Your Kicks to Us This bit of verse It is claimed has made the fortune of a shoemaker In one of the small smaIl towns of the state Here lives a man who wont refuse To make and mend both boots and shoes His profits small smaIl his work is just He loves all men but cannot trust |