HAVE YOU BOUGHT IT'YETP
Iβ a question which appeals to almost every phase of life. The child who is promised a gift often asks 'the: parent: Have you bought it yet? and. you can notice the intense look of disappointment upon ita face when you reply that you have not. Then theiyoung lady,: when ; her young admirer has been braye enough to ask the long-waited-for question, anfl ehe has replied- favourably, naturally asks him: Havo you bought it yet? meaning, of course, has he the. right size of ring, and if he hae not.done so, then she too is disappointed. /Then comes, the' marriage day,: when,-,ii: due course, the luoky, or unlucky, pair stand before the officiating' minister.: Everything is getting on famously until'the time comes to produce: the ring. The bridegroom fumbles in his pocket.:■.•■..'Hβ' caunot.iind it. Lost surely. Then in hard, cold words oomee the inquiry from ,his annoyed,intended mother-in-law. Have you bought it yet? And so on > through life, various incidents happen, and-, tho inquiry is often made: Have you. bought it yet?'lt so happons "< that it. is , part, of human nature to '■ keep '.on putfing; off things, and that is the reason the inquiry is so often made. : Now. delay in all things is dangerous, and that is tho reason why you should buy Hed- Cross' Ointment to- , day, and not leave, procuring it, till tomorrow. ' An: accident might happen tonight, when the shops are closed. If you have it handy in the house it will bo the means of saving immense suffering. Many a person has had causo to praiso tHe■ -Tiealing'' properties of the Mighty Healer,'as Red Cross Ointment has Been aptly called. Get-a- pot to-day.'As your grocer and chemist stocks Ked Cross all tho time, and the price is only one shil- . ling and sixpence, there is no reason .why the question should be aeked you again s Have you bought it: yetf
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 744, 17 February 1910, Page 5
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320Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 744, 17 February 1910, Page 5
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