Page 2 Advertisements Column 3

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 5 April 1926, Page 2

Ladies of South Canterbury will be interested in the visit to Timaru next week of Miss Jacobs, New York representative of the Pictorial Review Co. This applies not only to those laches who do their own dressmaking at home, but also to those who aro desirous of so doing. Miss Jacobs demonstrates the use of Pictorial Review patterns, and Messrs J. Ballantyno and Co., Ltd. have secured her services for next week. A special feature of the demonstration will be the actual cutting out without charge, of any garment from materials and patterns fidected at Ballantyne’s. Sessions will he held daily from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. - from Monday, 29th March, and following days. ...

The curious habit so common in America of popping an unlighted cigar in the mouth and chewing an inch or two of it to pulp, is not popular with ns, although the chewing of black plug tobacco is common eough amongst sailors everywhere. However, with {lie rank and file of Englishmen, "tim pipe’s the thing,” and a source of enjoyment, daily, to millions. But'discrimination should he exercised in tha choice of tobacco. Brands full of nicotine (as tiio American tobaccos usually are), ought to he cut out, because nicotine is the source of all the mischief when 1 ' tobacco proves injurious. Our New Zealand grown tobaccos are about (he purest going and contain only a trilling percentage of nicotine—a negligible quantity. That is why you can go on .smoking them all the timo with the utmost safety. They won’t do you any harm. And they are delightfully fragrant. You can get them of any strength. Ask for “Riverhead !!o!d,” mild; ‘’Navy Cut” (Bulldog), medium-; or “Cut l’lug No. 10” (Bulkhead), full strength.