CHISELLING YOUR EPITAPH.
Does it strike you that al] the time, day and night, you are making your' own epitaph, According as you act and speak "now, people will-. speak-, of you when you are under ,the daisies: .If .you drink bad,!tea- your, nerves will soon be a lot of tattered.ends, 'your-liver, will become a desolate waste, and vour temper will ; be the curse! of. everybody about you. iAnd.they'll write.something like! they wrote for the.person who died andwasburied at Ash; in Kent:— r, /, ; :, '; ■. \ ; ! ; . : , ..Poor John Thomas here he lies, : No one laughs, and no one criesj '■■,■'•.-■■■ Where he's gono,-and how, he/fares, /' '. : No one : knows;and no,one cares.. -~i- ■■• But if; you drink good if you drink the r one incomparably best ■ tea—your nerves; will, bo lite strings,... perfectly responsive and attuned; you will: never notice your . liver;: your, temper, will - be.as '. genial as s a spring morning; and your,very creditors will love and honour you. The one incomparably best'- tea,.of course,;-is "Suratura." : <■■ ■:■ .-,- 2
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 431, 13 February 1909, Page 11
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162CHISELLING YOUR EPITAPH. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 431, 13 February 1909, Page 11
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