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Show Play a Pleasant, Easy Game Add in $1,000,000 of Fun, and You Have the Greatest Great-est Bargain of the Ages. Thero have been some unny letters received from contestants in the $5060 Booklovers' Contest Game of solving pictures, and hure-'s ouo of them: "T iijrurod up the other day how much my pleasures in life have cost me. To" women's Bmilos I credited $2672.35; to friendship, $'A2i (money loaned to frinds: Goodbye!); to satisfying satis-fying the inner man with solids, $944.22; with liquids, $9876,10; to fun in the great Booklovers' Contest Gtfttie, and to the fii'flfc award T will win, 35 cents for a catalogue and 75 cents for an Answer Book. And that is the only money T can possibly spend in the contest. con-test. "My wife says that if there was any way of spending more monev I would spend it. but you good pc.oplo have so arranged it that we are all on a par in this contest nobody can spend more than the price of the two books. " Put mo down as a hopeless Booklovers Booklov-ers Bug. I did not get into this game until along about the fortieth, picture, as I am a traveling man and just cot back after a long session on the road. I found my wife up to her oars in this contest, and immediately bought a cataloguo'and Answer Book myself, or-dored or-dored tho paper for three months, eo t can have it follow mo around on my trips, and got tho llrst So pictures free with the catalogue, Tho balance from No. 36 on I got free with tho Answer Book, and sinco then have boon getting tho pictures day by day from the paper. "I hoyo traveled rather extensively, and noticed many newspaper contests, for I mako it my business to read all the local papers of tho towus along my route. Most of theso contests are more or less concealed waya of getting contestants con-testants to act as subscription agents of the paper. This game, however, is a fair and square picturo solving contest, con-test, and I like it. I like moat of all tho frankness with which you have discussed dis-cussed it. When you pooplo called it a gamo you gave it tho right name there is more fun in solving theso fool ! pictures than in anything 1 know. Let me cougTatulato you on tho contest it ib a triumph 1 " Well, this IS a pretty good game. It coniats simply of a series of 77 pictures, each of which represents tho title of a book. Today picturo No. 63 ia publishod. If you -want to start in the game now better get a catalogue, and with it will bo given the first 36 pictures free. Then get an Answer Book, and with it you will receive, if you get the book under tho bargain offer terms mndo to you in today's contest con-test announcement, all the pictures from No. 36 to date fre'e. Thus yon will have all the 62 back pictures, with the catalogue containing the 77 book titles which tho 77 pic- ! turo3 represent, and tho Answer Book in which you can submit, as many as ton different answers to each picturo, while having only one copy of each picture. pic-ture. Got thoso books today. |
