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Otago Witness, Volume 14, Issue 2648, 14 December 1904, Page 18

Pj| If you stop and think a minute, you will realise how impossible 1 |^ it is to depend upon certain words in the English language. There | I are some words which have been used so promiscuously that they 1 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 - . B>ii*l» •••••••» Go into a Restaurant arid ask for lamb, and you will probably get a two-year-old 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 use. The fact is. that you cannot, in the least, depend on adjectives when tobacco is up for discussion ; but use one word only . . „ . # 9 ' and you have solved the problem. You will be handed a Tobacco 1 I that needs no adjectives, no bolstering up, and no other evidence than | t~~ . " your own taste and observation. . . . . # I |f 1 EVERYBODY SMOKES "HAVELOCK" I f < ; because it just SUITS everybody, and that's all there is to it. . I I Aromatic and Dark, Plug and Cut. • i