Better Left Unsaid

Southland Times, Issue 18062, 4 February 1903, Page 4

Better Left Unsaid

It is better to be brief in Uisiuess announcements, and the Putney fishmonger who announced " Winkles is Kiz " was a model in his way. Even brevity, hnwever, has its pitfalls, as the Dewsbury Swimming Club discovered last year when, in advertising its annual tail, it announced! on tho placards, " Dress optional." It was a harmless scnwition, almost happy enough to have been deliberate, but such slips are not a!v»ays made with impunity* Thsre are seine who are unfortunate, as, for uxarapie, the one displayed in a chop w ; ndow in North London, which ran : — " Our superior butter is 13 per Ib ; no one can touch it." '• Annual sale now going on" ran another ; " don't go anywhere else to be cheated — come in here."' There was 1 something wrong, too, abefut the advertisement which asked for a boy who could " open oysters with a reference," and that of the furrier .who undertook to " make up gowns, capes, etc., for ladies out of their own The advertisement of a, phaeton for sale was curiously awkward. It. ran : — " Tc- be disposed of, a mail phaeton, the property of a gentleman with a movable headpiece as good as new." Here are one or two others of the race: — "Wanted, an organist and a boy to blow the same." ". Wanted a room for two gentlemen about thirty feet long and twenty feet broad." "For sale, piano, the property of, a musician with carved legs."— " A.M.," in St. James's Gazette.