[Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation by Edith Van Dyne]@TWC D-Link bookAunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation CHAPTER V 18/20
Our newspaper will have plenty of special features, and Beth's suggestion is a good one.
It sounds impressive.
You see, Arthur, we've got to use you as a figurehead, but so you won't loaf on your job I've decided to appoint you Solicitor of Advertising and Subscriptions." "Thank you, my dear," he said, grinning in an amused way. "You and Louise, who still like to be together, can drive all over the county getting subscriptions, and you can write letters on our new stationery to all the big manufacturers of soaps and breakfast foods and beauty powders and to all the correspondence schools and get their advertisements for the _Tribune_.
If you get a good many, we may have to enlarge the paper." "Don't worry, Miss Doyle; I'll try to keep within bounds." And so they went on, laying plans and discussing details in such an earnest way that Uncle John became as enthusiastic as any of them and declared in no uncertain tone that the _Millville Daily Tribune_ was bound to be a "howling success." After the girls had retired for the night and the men sat smoking together in Uncle John's own room, Arthur said: "Tell me, sir, why you have encouraged this mad project." The little millionaire puffed his pipe in silence a moment.
Then he replied: "I'm educating my girls to be energetic and self-reliant.
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