GROG VERSUS HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 73, 7 August 1868, Page 3

GROG VERSUS HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.

to 'run km roll oi* tub stau. Siu,~- A member of tho United Kingdom Alliance through tho medium of your paper, advises the public to follow tbe example of a friend ef his In Lyttelton, to tako twelvo Ilolloway'fl pll!s (i.c ono flhlllln«'s worth), In lieu of each eighteen ponco wortli of grog, and thereby save £27 a year, On reading this announcement I was ..tartlcd, for I mudo it out thst ho must swallow £U worth of pllln as . oubslltuto for jCf.l worth of grog (or .15 every day) to save £27. a year, ' When I announced this fact to my old woman sho became furious, and declared that no man would ho fool enough to givo up three ftluflso*) of grog (query, throe times threo I) for 05 pills, llcsldcs, added she, ho acknowledges that ho only takes twelve pills In Hon of threo glasses of grog, Ho at It again I went until I camo Ho tho conclusion that ho only drank £M worth of grog Iv one year, uud when ho gavo' it up. hia stomach must needfl tako a substitute in tho shape of ill ß worth of Ilolloway's pills, making a saving not of 'i! 27 but XI) a year, Surely tho advlco Is convincing-- down with public lioubos and up with pill shops,- Here's a good tlmo a coming, '''Your obedient norvant, PRTKR TIPPLER.