SMART RHYMES.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12750, 14 September 1934, Page 3

SMART RHYMES.

SELLING SHAVING CREAM BY VERSE. For an original method of advertising, the palm must be handed to an American manufacturer of a shaving cream. It took the form of a series of road signs placed at the right-hand side of the road, about 100 yards apart, so that motorists, as they sped along, could read the rhymes at leisure. Here is one of the series: 1. Pity all the mighty Caesars, Pulled each whisker out with tweezers. 2. He had the ring, he had the flat. She felt his chin, and that was that. 3. The a nswer to a Maiden’s Prayer, A chin quite free of stubbly hair. 4. fhe answer to a- shaver’s dream— A greaseless, no-brush shaving cream. o. College boys, your courage muster ! Shave off that fuzzy cookie-duster. 6. He played the sax., had no 8.0., Hut his whiskers scratched; she let him go. 7. When cutting whiskers, there’s no need To leave one-half of them for seed. 8. Beneath this stone lies Elmer Gush, r f ickled to death by his sliavingbrush. 9. I lie bearded lady bought a jar; She’s now a famous movie star. 10. Prickly beard and silky fuz, Shave them back to where they wuz. This interesting paragraph comes from “The New Idea,” the three--1 enny weekly paper for Australia*! women. Each week “The New Idea” fairly bulges with reading matter of all kinds, and in addition there is a free pattern enclosed with every copy. Now oil sale at all newsagents.