WHAT AN ADVERTISEMENT PRODUCED.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XIII, 28 March 1896, Page 363

WHAT AN ADVERTISEMENT PRODUCED.

When the present writer announced the arrival of a son and heir in the birth co utnn of one of the dailies the other day, he had no notion that he possessed as many friends a* he certainly does. Congratulations poured in from various well-known commercial house*, and these were accompanied in many case* by substantial presents. There were about a dezen different kinds of soap, nine sample* of various infant food*, three bottles of beef extract, a powder pufi and seven boxes of violet powder, four or five different kinds of night light*, eight babies’ bottles, three elaborate work* on how to bring up young children, specimens of linen and flannel for infant attire, and advertisements innumerable of everything that a baby could possibly need. Besides these there came proposal* from a dozen insurance companies to insure the life of the baby and the whole family on especially advantageous terms, prospectuses from a Californian emigration society anxious to ship the baby and the rest of the family to the land of peaches and pumpkins at the lowest possible rates, leaflet* from private gentleman who wanted to lend any sum of money fr m £5 to £50,0 0 on no security whatever, together with advice, sympathy, and good wishes enough t » last a family a hundred years —London ‘ Evening News.’