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Otago Witness, Issue 2721, 9 May 1906, Page 25

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AS SEEN PEOM MAES. "Wlwt peculiar little people those mortals Me down there on old Mother Earth. See how they rush, about! Those 'with 'pants on are men. .They eome'out of their "little houses every morning to go to a place, and rush along the same road every day^as if they never would be there in time. The funny part is that -when they get there, some of them do nothing but scratch a 'ittle piece of steel on paper, making black marks; others count little metal discs, and the more of these discs they have .the sappier Ihey seem. In the evening, back they hurry *li«i«» the same road again to theii httla houses. They do this day after day, and they don't teem even to we*ry. Those other little figures in pretty dresses — they are called women. They look sensible. 3foat of them are, too. But it's really wonderful how many of them are in slavery and dent know it. If they could only get above their surroundings, and look at themselves — hew queer fcrnie of their work would seem. For instance, they are very anxious to keep their little houses, their little hands; and faces, and their clothing clean. You. sac that one there with her hand- all Toughened and her knuckles hard? She did -tKat trying tc clean her clothing, Bnd she did net need to, had she only known. •Look at that one rubbing the clothes up and down on the board f She does that week by -week. She wears away the clothes more m the washing than she does in using them. See Ihet cne* hurrying to the bargain counter? She AH the same a few months ago; made a good bargain, too; but she wore out the bargain in half the time for want of just a .little thought, and here she is hurrying to the bargain counter again. What a waste oi shoe leather ! ■ Notice how old-looking some of them get before their time — that is really the effect of downright white slavery. And the worst of it is thsy don't know they are slaves.

Peep into that room wher? those two ie sweating tbeir lives out! Do you see that little square piece of buff-looking material? Well, that Is what ruins their hands, wears out their clothing, and keeps, them in a perpetual flurry They are absolute slaves to that — and they don't know it. Look into that other room ; there are a numbei of women whose hands are not rough, whose clothing is whiter than the rest, and wears longer — they are not old before their time. They have taken time to think, and have realised that it made all the difference to their hands, their clothes, and their work, whether that tuft material was pure or impure. Some of these little women, when they war^t somo of that buff malarial they use so much cf, simply huny to or send some one to a shop and ask for "soap." Those who think and know (he drflbren^e ask for "Sunlight Soap." They kaow Sunlight Soap is good. See, there is one cf tho thinking women in ttat shop— that little man has given her something else iii&tead of "Sunlight Soap." See fcer push it back and Eay, "I'll have nothing else but Sunlight Soap, for Sunlight Soap is good soap." The little child running along the road with a packet is returning to <» shop to say that r-er mother won't have tha impure soap sent in place of "Sunlight Soap." Sunlight Soap i : good soap. It is very interesting for us up hero Ii Mars to waicl* how th« little mortals on old Mother Earth come gradually to realise tow much depends on Jittl* things, and on such a little thing as soap, and how, «3 they think for themselves, they all turn to "Sunlight Soap," for cunlighfc Soap is good soap. Note — The above may seem, and is, a picture of the fancy; but it is founded on fact. Sunlight Soap is distinct from all common laundry soaps, and there is a marked difference in. »he effect produced by "Sunlight Soap." One ounse of "Sunlight Soap" is worth two ounces of ordinary soap; for Sunlight Scsp 18 good soap.