Ingenuity has often been shown in the exploitation of what we may call collateral reputations ; but surely nothing has ever been more determined or more curiously remote than the claim of an advertiser in the London Morning Post ; '• Dr. Martin Luther. — A lady, whose family is related to the above, offers to a few young ladies a truly Christian and refined home, replete with every comfort ; highest educational advantages ; music, painting, languages, and sciences by the most eminent professors ; conversation and practice by examined resident governesses." What advantages the few young ladies can expect to get through long descent and much filtration by the alleged relationship "to the above," it would be indeed difficult to guess.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 42, 15 February 1884, Page 9
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116Untitled New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 42, 15 February 1884, Page 9
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