J ho wife of a well-known Dunedin citizen mot with rather a distressing' accident tho other day. She was carrying a pot plant in a fancy pot, with the intention of placing it on the hall stand, when she slipped on tho waxed floor and fell, 'breaking in her fall the beautiful pot, as well as destroying Iho plant. Fortunately. ' however, sha escaped without any broken bones, although the doctor states she had a narrow escape of permanently injurinsr her spine. Wo have all along maintained Ihnfc waxed floors' are dangerous. It is' not m> much womenfolk who are liable to fall; you arc in tho house all morning, and are used to Iho slipporinesa of the floor, and you tread, so to speak, gently. It's your husband and your boys and girls who run the risk.' Your boy or girl comes running in at lunch time or in the afternoon, calling "Whore's mother?" in tho fullness of their spirits never thinking of slippery floors. Don't run the risk of letting them break their legs or arms by falling on your waxed and slipper? floors. You can give your door a better shine with LINOARNISH. rt'ii not slippery, and lxsidos it stands' good for months, and won't wash 0ff....
— Last year's estimated connuniprior of eggs in England averaged 115 per head of the population—man. woman, and child— and the value of the British production' o! eggs was no less than a million and a-half sterling greater than that of ten yean ago.
Recommended by tho inedicsl piefMjiwk— , WOMB'S SCHNAPPS. '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13985, 19 August 1907, Page 2
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