The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-06-26
PUSH & PULL.
BY THE REV. t. DE WITTTALHAGE, ID.

VIII q BUSINESS nrm whose praises
have never been sung. I doubt
whether their names are ever men
toned on Exchange. They seem to
be doing more business and have
more branch-houses than the Stew
arts or Lippincott's. You see their
names almost everywhere on the
door. 1t is the firm Of Push & Pull.
They generally have one, of their
partners names on the outside the
door, and the other on the inside:
PUSH on the outside and "Pull''
on the inside. have found their
business-houses in New York..
Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston,
London, and Edinburgh. 1t is un-
der my eye, whether | go to buy a
hat, shawl, or paper Of pins, or
watch, or ream of foolscap. They
are in all kinds of business; and
from the way they branch out, and
put up new stores, and multiply
their signboards on the outside and
inside of doors, | conclude that the
largest bust ess firm on earth to-day
is Push & Pull.
When these gentlemen join the
church, they make things go along
vigorously. The roof stops leaking;
new carpet blooms on the church
floor; the fresco is retouched; the
high pulpit is lowered till it comes
into the same climate with the pew;
strangers are courteously seated;
the salary of the minister is paid
before he get hopelessly in debt to
butcher and baker; and all is right,
financially and spiritually, because
Push & Pull have connected them
selves with the enterprise. A new
parsonage is to be built, but the
movement does not get started.
Eight or ten men of slow circulation
of blood and stagnant liver put their
hands on the undertaking; but it
will not bulge. The proposed i'm
proyement is about to fail, when
Push comes up behind it and gives
it shove, and Pull goes in front
and lays into the traces; and, 10
the enterprise advances, the goal is
reached! And all the people who
had talked about the Improvement,
but done nothing toward it, invite
the strangers who come to town TO
go up and see 'our" parsonage.
Push q Pull are wide-awake men.
They never stand round with their
hands in their pockets, as though
feeling for money that they cannot
find. They have made up their
minds that there is work for them
to do; and, without wasting any
time in reverie, they go to work and
do it, They start 'life-insurance
company" Push is the president,
and Pull the secretary. Before you
know il, all ths people are running
in to have their lungs sounded, and
to tell how many times they have
the rheumatism; how old they are;
whether they ever had fits; and at
what age their father and mother ex-
pired; and putting all the family Sc
crets on paper, and paying Push &
Pull two hundred dollars to read it.
When this firm starts a clothing
house, they make a great stir in the
city. They advertise in such strong
and emphatic way that the people
are haunted with the matter, and
dream about lit, and 60 ronnd the
block to avoid that store-door, lest
j they be persuaded in and induced to
buy something they cannot afford.
: But Some time the man forgets him.
self, and finds he is in front of the
new clothing-store, and, at the first
glance of goods in the show-window,
is tempted to enter. Push comes
up behind him. and Pull comes UP
before him, and the man is convinc-
ed of the shabbiness of his present
appearance; that his hat will not do,
that his coat and vest and all the
rest of his clothes, clean down to his
shoes, are unfit, and before enc week
is past, a BOY runs up the steps of
this custcFser with a pasteboard box
marked, ''Erom the clothing estab-
Iishmeeat of Push & Pail. G. O. d."
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