THE BABIES IN THE TIMES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1791, 18 September 1884, Page 2

THE BABIES IN THE TIMES.

During an interview with Mr Barratt, one of the two partners in the house ol Messrs A. and F, Pears, the reporter said:-" One moment more. Do you contend that your soap is so very beneficial to the skin of the baby?" • "Why, certainly,"'said Mr Barrett, a proud, sinilo curling round his lips. "Of course there are mothers and mothers. Some uso plain white r\ soap, thinking that is more wholesome and then they wonder that the ha™ cries, and that its skin is red and rough and inflamed. They little know tho ingredients of the gritty imposition which they have been applying. So that the baby gets both smacks and grits, which is not at all fair, Now when out own soap is used the subjects actually crow 'with pleasure." I did not ask whether my vis a-vis spoke from personal experience, nor did I pursue the subject further, even declining the offer of a slab, having (as yet) no personal interest in such matters. ■| Now," said Mr Barrett " look at this little package, We send 'one gratuitously to each of the babies whoso birth is announced in the columns of the Times. You.see it is a, neat little box, containing ono of our .shilling cakes of soap and a number of our** pictorial-leaflets, neatly packed, and the whole sent by post, You may readily estimate the number that go \ out during the year."