A 'WALKING ADVERTISEMENT.

Observer, Volume 5, Issue 120, 30 December 1882, Page 243

A 'WALKING ADVERTISEMENT.

J Tms is' an advertising age. The man who w.ill , not Advertise is lost. The motto of all successful ■ business mea is " advertisb'<and you will be saved, dc/n't advertise, and you will be d ahem ! j b&nkrupfc. Everbody advertises from the (3-overnmenfc down to the nightsoil man. Eventjhe parsons, who ought not to require it, are nowand ere long we shall expect them to' ' cover the -walls with enormous show bills, bearing, full length portraits of the preachers, in appropriate costume and pulpit attitude. WouM not something in this style draw : " Read this ! ,Come and see the* Rev. T. Spurgeon in his great banisters act, to., -illustrate the fearful fall of hardened Binnere !" .This with a striking coloured wood cut, exhibiting Tommy in . harlequin's costume in the act of performing the fejat would draw immensely. Reader, pray don't frown or B.turn up the whites of your 'eyes. There i«£not ' anything veryfoshocking in the picture. It will come, rest Already the preachers are invading the domain of the legitimate drama — or at any rate the extravaganza and burlesque phases. But, passing on to the subject of practical advertising, there was a spmewhat

curious scene in Queen Street last week. A lady of massive yet graceful form and carriage, with a firm, elastic tread, and a determined air that made loiterers clear out of her path, attracted the observation of all the people in the street. Men paused to look at her, and watched her on her way". Falling far down her back and covering her shoulders was a. great wealth *of hair, like the mane of a lion. Many were the snrsrises as to who she was, until at last an exceedingly matter-of-fact bystander settled the question off hand by announcing that she was an itinerant advertising mediunt.for the celebrated Tricopherous Hair Restorer.