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Show SIGNS ON WAGON ROOFS. Wrlahle That lias t ome In, With the llnlMlns of Mais. , T'hen data Kenan to multiply." laid a nun who Uvea In one and so, naturally, natur-ally, takes notice of things associated will them, "the owners of delivery warms and so on began lim ing signs painted on tha roofs of their wagon", to catch the ey of those who dwolt In komes abov the street level. They pdatid thrive signs first with the namt ont lettor under th othe', lk a g line, straight down the middle of ths wagon wag-on top from, end to end. 1 Sometimes they painted the name, In th tame location but with th.letten STS.nged In the ordlnsry way, this making a tlgn that could -tie easily read from jfV-elde vif 'the vtswet wly. Thun they took to palming the name on the wagon roof lu two places along either side of the top near (hn: edge. Thus painted, one or the other, of course, could be easily rend- from either side of the street. In wiiton roof lettering Hi latest thing I have teen was on 'tho top of a mnvlug vaa, whose eutlro roof wns covered with loitering. In lines placed crosswise to the top and beginning at the forward end and running, line under line, clean back to th rear end, bo that the van's exten-tlv exten-tlv roof, as you looked down upon It, wsg lettered like a great poster. And of couise this was not done Idly, for the van Is a vchlclo that mny stand backej up an hour or two In front of I house and the poster on it: roof II then brought where It can be eaally read by anybody In the air along that Id of tho street way. New York Bun. |