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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 1, 3 January 1901, Page 10

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CATHOLICS (says an American contemporary) are the inheritors of noble traditions of art ; but to look at many of the pictures offered for sale in Catholio art stores and hung upon the walls of many Catholic homes, would lead to the belief that we are still in the rudimentary stage, where gaudiness is the test of valne. Religious pictures should have a place in every home, and in our day there is no excuse for these being eyesores. A generation or bo back chromos may have been the only sort of pictuies within the reach of any but the wea'thiest ; but of late new methods have been introduced and improved upon until now works of real artistic merit can be purchased for a price that brings them within the reach of everyone. Etchings and engravings, photographs, and photogravnres, artotype and half-tones, these have followed one upon the other so rapidly that they have now brought really good art within the reach of the humblest household. Nearly all the masterpiece of the art world have been reproduoed in one or another of these methods, and as a repult the great works of religious art can be purchased in these reproductions for a mere trifle.

Myers and Co., Dentists, Octagon, corner of Georpe street They guarantee highest class work at moderate fees. Their artifloial teeth give general satisfaction, and the fact of them supplying a temporary denture while the gums are healing does away with the inconvenience of being months without teeth. They manufacture a single artificial tooth for Ten Shillings, and sets equally moderate. The administration of nitrous-oxide gas is also a great boon to those needing the extraction of a tooth. Read advertisement.—/* Lyttelton Times says :—": — " Gawne and Co., the manufacturers, of George street, Dunedia, send us a sample of their Worcestershire Sauce, made like Lea and Periin's " from the receipt of a country nobleman," who must have been a fastidious feeder, and Gawne and Co. must have got the same receipt, as their sauce is indistinguishable from the famous Lea and Perrin's. People who like a relish with their meats — and what man does not — should be grateful to that anonymous country nobleman for spending his time in experimenting to such good purpose. — *** A RICH RETURN. When a mixture attainß so wonderful a success in so short a time as Tussicura has managed to do, it is difficult to speak of the matter in a way that does not appear like exaggeration. Let us look back at the career of this extraordinary medicine from the Btart. It is only a few months since the proprietor launched it upon the market, and, as it was produced in a comparatively obscure town in Central Otago, it will be Been that the inventor was considerably handicapped. There was no idea of putting forth a cheap mixture — for there are only too many of these before the public at the present time — but the object in view was to nse the very best drugs procurable after a careful consideration as to the effect they would have on the systems of persons suffering from particular complaints People are, not unnaturally, chary of trying a new remedy unless it comes to them heralded by all sorts of ' bold advertisements,' and the proprietor of Tussicura, although he might have expected to have an extremely hard fight in convincing the public of the excellence of his preparation, is naturally gratified at its immediate success. At the same time he recognises that, in order to recoup him for his large expense that he has been put to in preparing the mixture, he must seek a wider field, and the number of testimonials he has received amply justified him in anticipating a •access. — %•