HAVE YOU BOUGHT IT YET?
Is a qucstion-which appeals to almost every phase oMifo.: The child who:is promised a : •gift often -asks the parent: Have'you bought, it yet? and you can '-notice..tho intenso look of disappointment upon its face when you *enlv that you have not. Then the young lady when her young admirer has been brave enough to ask thojong-waited-for question, and eh! has replied-favourably, naturally asks him- Have yon bought it yet? meaning, of. course, has he the right size of,ring, and if ho has not Jono so, then she too is disappointed. Then comes the marriage day, when in due 'course the lucky, or unlucky, pair stand before the-officiat-ing minister. Everything is getting on famouslv until the timb cornea , to produce tho-ring Tho .bridegroom fumbles in his pocket. He cannoV find it. Lost surely. Then in hard, cold words comes tho inquiry from: his annoyed intended mother-in-law: Ilavo you bought it yet? 4nd so on through .life, various, incidents happen and the inquiry is often made: Eave vou bought.it yet? It.so happens that it is part of human nature to keep on putting off thin ßS and that is the reason the inquiry is so often made. Now, delay in all things is dangerous and that, is the reason why you should ' buv lied Cross Ointment to-day; and not leave procuring it till to-morrow. An: accident might happen to-night, when the shops are closed If you have it handy, in the honso it will: be the means of/saving immense suffering. Manv a person has had cause to proiso the healing properties of the Mighty Healer, as Bed ■Cross Ointment has been aptly called, Get a pot to-day. . As your grocer and chemist stocksx Red Cross all the time, and the price is only ono shilling and sixpence, there, is no reason why tho question should be asked you again • Have you bought it yet? ; / ...-'■ . ".- '-. Motor-cars cleaned and stored. , -'. Cats Bold on commission. Accumulators charged; satisfaction guaranteed j prices reasonable. - Inglis Bros, Harris Street.—Advt. .-'. >. •:•...
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 677, 30 November 1909, Page 7
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336HAVE YOU BOUGHT IT YET? Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 677, 30 November 1909, Page 7
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