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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18897, 20 December 1924, Page 9

A BARBER'S CONFESSION. " Cut 'em all short, the hair, the beard and the conversation," snapped the irate customer. After a silence broken only by tho snipping of the scissors, tho customer, annoyed by tho exuberance of spirits and happy countenance of this particular hairdresser, burst out with, " Why are you always so confoundedly happy " I'll tell you in two words," replied the barber. " Baxter's Pills. My doctor onco explained to mo that the way we live and tho food we cat aro not what Naturo ordered. Result is—Short at the sides, sir ?—we get ' out of sorts,' our organs become congested, and we gel disgusted with things in general. In fact, we are apt to get quite rude without provocation. By the way, sir, you don't take Baxter's Pills, do you '!" " No. old man, but I'm going to. . . . You can keep the change." A short course of Baxter's Pills tones up tho digestive organs, purifies the blood and makes one fit and active. 2s at all chemists and stores, or post free on receipt of price, from A. and W. Baxter, manufacturing chemists, Christchurch.— Advt.

When a lady likes a man, and wauls to give him something useful, ties, handkerchiefs, scarves, etc., are in order.— Fowlds.