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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16370, 1 March 1924, Page 5

Warding off colds is a matter to winch the Japanese pay considerable attention. The commonest practice is to nail a flat wooden spoon on the door, this being supposed to scare away such fiends as Sneeze and Suit, but when influenza is about the additional precaution is taken of writing above the spoon, “ Hisamatsu is out,” or ‘‘Hisamatsu does not live here.” Hisamatsu, according to the legend, is being sought by his,lover 0 Some, and her spirit, wandering in search of him, leaves a cold in ervery house she enters, BRIGHT, CHEERFUL' HOUSEWIVES. Housewives who are fagged out, limp and exhausted after a strenuous day. need a really good tonic. “Maltexo”, (Wilson’s Malt Extract), builds them up. restores the body tissues, and gives them that vim and vigor that leaves one. fresh and cheerful after the heaviest day’s ; work. Ask your chemist or grocer for “Maltexo.”