"
"Quite right," said Patsy, nodding energetically.
"But our friend made little headway because the sympathies of the people
were not with him."
"Why not, sir?" inquired Beth, while Kenneth sat inwardly groaning at
this baring of his terrible experiences.
"Because through custom they had come to tolerate such things, and could
see no harm in them," replied the lawyer. "They permit their buildings
which face the roads to be covered with big advertisements, and the
fences are decorated in the same way. In some places a sign-board has
been built in their yards or fields, advertising medicines or groceries
or tobacco. In other words, our country roads and country homes have
become mere advertising mediums to proclaim the goods of more or less
unscrupulous manufacturers, and so all their attractiveness is
destroyed. Kenneth, being a man of artistic instincts and loving country
scenes, resented this invasion of commercialism and tried to fight it."
"And so ran my head against a stone wall," added the young man, with a
bitter laugh.
"But you were quite right," said Patsy, decidedly. "Such things ought
not to be permitted."
"The people think differently," he replied.
"Then we must educate the people to a different way of thinking,"
announced Louise.
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