Just as Good

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 November 1915, Page 3

Just as Good

{By Wait Mason.)

■ I've always bought tno ■ Peerless Prune—it is the best I've louiid. 1 oalled on Uoggs this attornoon,■ ana (said , 1 wished to buy a pouuit. haven't got the Peerless brand, , - tie said, as by his shelves no stood; "1 do not keep that brand on liaml—but nero n something just as good." i asked him for some i'ricoleus pens —the juicy kind—tiioy'ro simply grand. "WVreout of tnom," ho said, "but these are really yune a better brandl." it's always thus with grocer Hogg; ho never keeps... the tilings ho should, and .if you asked for / picked hogs, he'd hand you something just as good. 1 read about somo lemonade or fizz.. sparkling cider pop—the- purest that was over uiado!—and olf i rush into ins shop to ask'him for a lull sized ii that bears the brand ' "Fresh from the Wood. , ' "I'm out of that," replies the dub, "but I've got eomothing as good." 1 read of special kinds or ham, anu isoraothing new in cottage cheese, of unadulterated; jiuil aud honey lroni liuport*»d/b"eos, of mince-meat ht for Kingly ipies—l'm feeling in a buying mooch "I've none of these," tne grocer cries. "but I've got something just as good. Some day he'll make me led so sore and weary of his tricky ways.. I'll tv> hiui wh'at 1 think—what's more I'll make him .learn it never pays, For when -» go to spend my cash iov certain kinds of branded food, i want the kind, I want —not trash, that someone eke thinks

just as good. It's good to lind the lioucst man wJio -— bears liis patron's wants in mind. Tie tries to fill thorn- when ho caii—and when ho can't he doesn't grind the axe of his rapacious grood, but earns an honest livelihood; by getting you luo things you nee<l—not something else that's just as good.