Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-26
THE USEFUL PENNY.
The Wonderful Choice of Things which
the Possessor Has Before Him.


In the old country with your penny
you can get your mornings ride on
the tramcar; boat ride from London
bridge to Greenwich; mile and half
bus ride almost anywhere: mile and a
half railway ride on the Metropolitan.
Ii you are smart clerk. before YOU
go into your office, with penny YOU
can buy bunch of violets; or a cigar
cite; or daily paper; or have your
boots BACKED; or buy tin of wax
vestas; or a rustic wood pipe; or a
metal closeup pipe cleaner from pave
ment vender. If you are a workman,
and you haven't got a careful wife,
for penny you can get breakfast of
thick slice of bread and butter and a
cup of coffee; you can buy savelov
for an extra relish; you can get a
screw of tobacco; you can buy a glass
OF milk; you can get a shave and make
yourself smart.
If you are in the city at lunch time,
with a penny you can buy biscuit or
a scone, or an oatmeal digestive bis
cult; you can buy the first edition of
the evening paper at l p. M, or post
age stamp to send letter home to say
that you are going to be late; if you
have lost shirt stud from bending
over your desk, for a penny you can
buy half a dozen from the shirt stud
vender; if you happen to be near the
law courts and want to know if a
friends case is in court, for penny
you can buy causelist. If you are a
nice little boy, who has had penny
given to you, with that wonderful coin
you can get in the street a set of three
toy white jugs; or tin lizard; or a
jumping frog; or dolls house; or a
jumping dog; or a jack-in-the- box; or
trick surprise match box; or a green
moth on a spiral string.
If you are going home from business
in the street, too, you can buy for a
penny-a pair of mohair laces; a set
of pencils with guard and pen; 'the
smallest book ever printed; :" piece of
sponge; penknife; set of fairy
money; lead or composition comb
'puzzle match box" a bag of anti
influenza lozenges; a set of wire pipe
cleaners; dose of sarsaparilla from
the highly decorated cart; an electric
shock; a gaivanic shock; bottle of
infallible mucilage; a box of silver
plating powder; box or bottle of gild-
ing preparation, and box of clothes
reviver. For a penny, too, you can
have your fortune told by the Italian
lady with the wonderful canaries.
You can buy gilt edged mirror, or a
packet Of hockey pokey, or an albert
guard, or a toy watch with a chain
and key, or set of dice, or an arti-
fetal flower pot with a flower in it, or
slice of pineapple, or a bag of butter
nuts.
Then, again, think of the automatic
machines when you arrive at the rail
way station. For penny-a penny
in slOt-out comes a small cigar or
cigarette, or chunk of butter scotch,
or packet of caramels, or piece of
chocolate, or some scent for your
handkerchief, or try your weight, or a
''shock, or try your height, a glass
of water with paper cup, or try your
strength. Last, not least, for penny
you can have book of all the popu
lar songs with moosic;" Bunyan's
Pilgrims Progress" an umbrella
ring; pair of revolving gilt collar
studs; ''tightlet" to fasten your
scarf or collar; block of fuel: mem
orandum book; zinc pail; funnel
a toasting fork; an iron hanger; an
egg boiler; copper wire flower pot
hanger; the hardest puzzle OUT" q
packet of hat reviver; tooth stopping
tin or razor paste; sometimes a pocket
knife this last will clean me OUT {;
and hundreds of other things for the
life of us we can never recollect-Ex-
change.