WITHOUT A TRUMPET BLAST.

Press, Volume XLVIL, Issue 7742, 23 December 1890, Page 2

WITHOUT A TRUMPET BLAST.

Simple merit rarely meets with »*»_«£ ! ward until too late to be o! wane,, Th 6 friendlese pateiol; who ependaih» J*** .in tlie *>ffdrt to get metnbew eoUdoki persuasioa teturneo.to rani** meafc hae bat email joy in the which eomee to him only alter he has sold out of the butchering business, and left the township la whfch he could hare wilted up bis enemies from the diaay elevatlorfof the Bench. . Tjjb plain daughtero£_the family-who has cotttfftcted a squint from the constant contemplation of that swfol warfe oa her nose—darns all the family stockings, replaces the fugitive button, regulates tfie supply of hash, and washes the annual aad etr* reearring baby, has seen nit her sisters in orange blossom, but missed ncr, own chances for the -y«?trf Aga»£g blast. Yet She was Adnolttedly the beet rule holds good the whole social fabric, with but few exceptions. One of these, andjhe most noteworthy, is the Waterbary Watch. » came and conquered, absolutely °n its ovm merits. cheap, lacquered, gunerack Swiss watches have broken many an honest bushman's heart, but were never known to keep time. Ihe r case is their works ftreJeafl, and their action as erratic as a C.M.G. on a road contract. They go for either ten or fourteen hours a day, according to temperature, and scatter misery as tne, gun scatters buUets. They are shipped to Qic colonies as ballast.; the dealer a profit is the cause of their construction, and tne crass stupidity of the purchaser the reason for their existence. The mendacions trumpet; of the advertiser rblares. forth their alleged excellence, and the simpleminded man with the grass-seed in his hair becomes a mark for the finger ol scorn, and a target for his own contumely. . The Wateibury came like a dream ol delight, and in its own little mild and unobtrusive way stole into the heart* or Australians, and made its name a household word; a synonym for all that is exact, trustworthy, and beaut