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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 82, 7 April 1919, Page 3

Returned SUIT-i-4 A--fit'L 1 i W / 2: 1 ■ "■> 1 Farewell, Old Uniform! Your work is done. The purpose for which you were created - has been accomplished; the task for which your'life has beencbnapcrated is finished. To-day we two shall part, each gping his separate way—you to risk your weary threads in an old box, perhaps-to be handed down to posterity, in the years to come; I to return to the busy city Jife=. which I gave up to go with you. * We have seen -it through together, and it Was worth the price we paid} ’ hut Pm more than g&d* it’s over, Old Uniform, aid . know that you feel the. same way about it. . . t ■’’ « V", . i •• 1 1 You were faithful, you were warm ; you .protected me from the winds and rains and the snows; perhaps many times -you saved my life and perhaps I owe my. very self to you, and dear Old Uniform I’m not un : grateful when I say* good-bye. . • ' ‘ I shall go hack in the business world with a .deep appreciation of you. I shall, go back into Civilian clothes a better man—better physically, morally better in heart and soul because you have made me' so!. You have given me a better understanding; 'of' what good clothes mean to a man. Within your sacred walls I constantly endeavoured to conduct myself like.the.' true soldier that you would have me be. -You gave me self-respect* in the presence of other, men, a self-respect which I shall carry hack to the business world in the new suit of civilian clothes I’m now wearing . ■ . And now your work is done, and, Ah I how well it is, done* torday we part, parhaps never to meet again, and when I put you away in my box .with -the Union Jack to guard you, may yoii for ever repose in peace, • You won’t despise me for. saying that. It feels good to dress up in civilian clothes^ again. You understand! Farewell, Old Uniform, farewe)! I . :' ; 1 :•♦»► . -5 ' - ’ i ;,.r ■. '■ With peace comes renewed -prosperity.. Good clothes proveth cheerfulness and inspire self-eonfidence. They are the visible signs of' utir . belief in the future of onr Country. Let us look forward, not back. Let ns rejoice iii our deliverance. Let’s be cheerful both in mind and dress, and buy Dee and Sons’ good clothes. These are the Clothes turned out in our Big Suit Store, that give you peace and comfort and selfrespect. Returned men liberally dealt with i iM DEE »SONS 810 SUIT AND BOOT STORE.