Kitty on Advertising.
Ach I sold again, it makes me as savage as a wild cat! What's wrong Kitty dear 1 Oh, just another of those abominable catchy advertisements: Here I've been, reading a real interesting thing, and it finishes with ah advertisement. Well, well, dearie, you mnan't complain. Advertising is a condition of existence nowadays. . Yes Jack, for business people. Aye, and even for pretty girls! What rubbish. Do you mean matrimonial advertisements 1 Oh dear, no! Why look Kitty 1 There's Dolly Penniwhistle walking down the street, see the gekup, the mincing gait, the affectation and the pose of her head-—that's all advertisings It is not. You're a mean thing. It is so t She's advertising in order to attract attention—especially the attention of Billy Billkins, It's all right though; Billy will do well if he gets ; JDolly and old Penniwhistle's money. Well, Jack, supposing—men are iust as bad! Certainly they are. See Jimmy Jorricks. He's been advertising himself for years past, and yet haan't found a purchaser. No girl will look at him, but as Darwin tell us, the old male birds strut about-in gay plumage advertising to. catch the attention of the young hens and it is something similar with the human animal." You're a nasty thing. D'ye mean to say I ever advertised to attract your attention? You 1 Of course you did, Kitty, and I don't blame youj It was that sweet laughing smile that fairly caught me I It was so, and I'm glad of it. > I never— Now Kitty, be careful! But I'm delighted with my bargain. If we hadn't our attention drawn by advertisements, one would miss half the good things in the world—as I might have missed you 1 Well Jack, you may think it is very smart to talk like that, but I can tell you— Whose advertisement were you reading when you lost that pretty adorable little temper of yours 1 Oh 1 one of those bothering Hondai-. Lanka Tea things. I'm always getting tripped up with them, Well, but we use their tea, and it's Al isn't it ? .
I should think it is 1 The cheapest and loveliest you can buy. How's that Kitty ? Because the longer you know it the better you like it! •'
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 406, 18 February 1904, Page 5
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378Kitty on Advertising. Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 406, 18 February 1904, Page 5
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