, 1893-02-25

CNNH 49,
equally angry. letters Of the conservatives,
you turn to lie sci, ctions. and choose an ar
ticle with an attractive hi aiding, "A strik-
ing story from Siltnb boil. " il may 10. expect
ing 10 have to thank your ''cotem's Judgment
for a five minut, s treat The fiysi few ser
tencev are rather brilliant, but as you go Ola
you see that there is something weak in the
composition, and then you only continue be-
cause YOU have already commenced, and Won
begin to wonder what can have induced any
one to have manufactured such q curious
piece of literature; as you approach the end,
however, you find out the secret, for you
learn Il at the hero got very sick and would
certainly have died if he had not been so
lucky as to have fallen in with Mother Goose's
Grrol."a few basinfuls of which set him on his
legs again. You wish Mother Goose, her
cruel and all her advertising agents far
enough. ana vow that You will never COM
menCe any Of your "cOtem's' valuable G)
articles after this, otherwise han from the
bottom, for only by that route can you'' dis.
cover whether the said articles are rot simply
traps to drop you into Il hoWI Of the "Mother
Goose In passing we may here say that
if any Of the sly advertising agents chance
to see this remark. they may perhaps profit by
it to put the Cruel part Of he story nearer
to the top, and then cautious people like
Ourselves may yet be taken IN. In that case,
the only way will be to glance through tho
entire article and the moment the eye ligbtson
sMother Coo. calmly to lay the sheet on
the table, as temporary resting place on the
way to the waste paper pile. Of'course the
whole thing is easily understood. In another
part of the Chronicle you find Mother G's
advertisements in honest shape, and no doubt
the editor has been paid handsomely for that,
with the understanding thai those other
works Of art shall be exhibited from time to
time in his paper in The midst q honest read
inc matter. We have heard the practice de.
Tended. on the ground that the Cruel mix
ture. pill, or whatever else it may be, is reilly
: good thing and ought to he known. It may
be 60. but tie whole dodge seems to us to
be utterly contemplate. Perhaps we are
wrong. especially as we have never tried the
''gruel SO lot as pass on. 1t is indeed not
this kind of pap we meant to talk about,
but another, which has quite a dlttsrsnt pur-
pose. We meant, and still mean. to talk
about boilet@9cootiuQ composition. What has
Mother Goosc's patent remedy to do with this?
Well. there is a possj bility Of 4 close connexion
between the two things in the minds Of some
Of our readers, and it may come in this way:
The readers of this article will be aware that
we often publish an advertisement of a boiler
coating composition, and some Will perhaps
be tempted, as soon az Hey see an article
about it. to say 20 these wretched editors,
they will do any hing for money what The
Paris men do on a grand seals these Lillipn-
tians of the West Indies do on a small now
much, | wonder, has this out had for the pre-
sent article ? Very natuial,' as Nj. Peck
s...fi uso0 TO say. but not right this imN The
present writer has no pecnnIary interest.
direct or indirect, in calling attention to
boiler coating, nor expects To have any. The
advertisement rsferI Ell 10 has been paid fo,~
without Ven a hint that a .sw laudatory re-
marks would lie acceptable. v hat then can
have movedthe writer to troubla himself about
boiler coating con position =? Well, we will
come to that presently; there is no hurry.
For ale not these lines penned for the perusal
of men of leisure e? What you Indignantly
exclaim, leisure indeed! You seem to have
a lot Of it, if We may Judge from the large
amount of this 'tt ash without thus far a joint
of solid cane but az for US poor planters.
you have little idea Of how hard We work
True enough. eonsclenc, prickS Ms. so We beg
pardon and proceed. but before We state
b we wIite about boiler coating compositions
let us say c~andidly that we know nothing
whatever about then; concerning none If
them do we know If What materials it 10
made. nor how these materials are mixed nor how
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