ORD ONLY m " - ■ , :: , . If you stop and think a minute, you will realise how impossible It is to depend upon certain words in the English language. T here are some words which have been used so promiscuously that they have lost all significance. . . . . Take our English word “GIRL” —it means a female child anywhere between 3 and 21 years of age; but, nowadays, we call them all “girls” up to 100. When the baby’s sex is asked, we say “IT is a girl,” and, when you engage a 65 year old cook, she is still “a girl.” . • • • • • ® Go into a Restaurant and ask for lamb, and you will probably get a two=year=o!d sheep—ask for chicken, and you are sure of getting hen. . . . • ■ . . * If you are a smoker, you will have found out by now, that according to the Tobacconist, everything is “THE BEST,” “ COOLEST. SMOKING,” “ SWEETEST,” and a few other superlatives in common uss. The fact is, that you cannot, in the least, depend on adjectives when tobacco is up for discussion; but use one word only « • . ® * « m tfiSf W, and you have solved the problem. You will be handed a Tobacco that needs no adjectives, no bolstering up, and no other evidence than your own taste and observation. . . . . « EVERYBODY SMOKES “HAVELOCK” " because it just SUITS everybody, and that’s all "there is to it. Aromatic and Dark. Plug and Cut.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1679, 4 May 1904, Page 75 (Supplement)
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230Page 75 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Mail, Issue 1679, 4 May 1904, Page 75 (Supplement)
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