WHO SHALL BE FAIREST?
Who shall be fairest? ' Who shall be rarest? 1 •Who shall be first in the sougs that we sing: Slip who is kindest When Fortune is blindest, Bearing through winter the blooms of' the spring. Charm of our gladness, Friend of our sadness, ( Angel of life when its pleasures take wing: She shall be fairest,' ' ' She shall be rarest, ' She shall be first in the' songs that we sing. ■ Who shall be nearest, Noblest and dearest, Named but with honour and pride evermore? tie, the undaunted, Whose banner is planted On Glory's high ramparts and battlements hoar; i''earless of danger, To ■ falsehood a stranger, Looking not back w-hile there's Duty before: He shall be nearest, He -shall be dearest, He shall be first in our hearts evermore. —Charles Mackay. —: —: - i. BARGAINS IN MEDICINE. ' , That the American woman is keen on a bargain, even, in • a chemist's shop, was, shown the other ■ day in a ' case quoted by the "Ladies' Home, Journal." It is not easy to believe that New . Zealand women would be .-.tempted in the same way—that they would rush a special sale of patent medicines. Bub the American woman is evidently a warrior. \A special sale of a certain "patent medicine" was recently held by a "cut-price" ' drug store. • Tliis medicine usually sells for. 4s. 2d. a bottle. In "specialprice" stores.it is "specially" offered at 3s. Hut .this particular drug store evolved a master-stroke, . and 2s. 6d. Thousanclsj qf. women ■ bougiil j'fc.' 'among them the wife- of'a ■famous'.'chenust.! '..This man took the medicine and analysed the cost. The "wonderful" drugs in.it, each with a high-sounding nanie,. cost 2d.; the; "purest of glycerine" cost-1d.,. and the rest, was water, and not even unadulterated water at that, as the chemist-found! So, with the bottle, cork, . label,., everything costing say a id. .more, the entiro vile concoction cost to make just 3.} d.!. And yet thousands of men' and women had paid from 4s. 2d. to 2s. 6d. a bottle for it! Add'to this the further fact that the chemist found out: that the medicine was perfectly useless as a "remedy," and you have a pretty fair picture of the average "patent medicine"! Is it any wonder that the average "patent-medicine" manufacturer is a millionaire?
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 72, 18 December 1907, Page 3
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378WHO SHALL BE FAIREST? Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 72, 18 December 1907, Page 3
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