The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-12-14
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A cereal in two parts by the ouihor
OF "How to remain a Ounce without
the use or dynamite on the farm,
The secret OF selecting the best
Fountain Pen and where the Conklin
can be purchased" etc. etc.
Part
As 7 sat at my desk feyerishly sep
arating the pennies and tin washers
found in the gum vending machine,
the familiar smell of fish became
stronger and mentally cussing the big
insurance calendar for calling it Tues
day when it was evidently Friday
looked up into the eye Of a cigar with
the smiling lace OF Editor Howe be
hind it,
Say Griswold, says he, why don't
you lun an ad in the Banner this
week rye been around some TO
Montpelier Searsburg and other
places and have yet to see as wonder
full an assortment Of Christmas gifts
as you have right here in this store.
and there are a lot of Banner readers
who don't know how completely their
wants can be filed without having to
travel all over the state TO supply
them. You are showing the hand
somest line OF Christmas cards, book
let's. trimmings and knick-lnacks /
ever saw. You seem to be the only
people in town with nice pictures.
toys, ana musical merchandise. You
nave the most fasciuating-cOllCc of
books and are fortunate in having the
sole agency in Bennington for the
two very best talking machines in the
| world. the Nictrola and Graionoll.
And besides every body is crazy TO
read your advertisements. They viii
read your stuff and my editorials
when they won't more than glance at
anything sensible. and we ought oc-
cascnally TO give them what they
want So 80 to it old men; il VIII
mean more business for both of us
and III take nay pay out in a Yictrola
and stop the eternal clamOr for one
up at my house Well, q travelling
man had just told me that we had the
biggest and best stock OF its kind he
had seen outside CT the largest cities
and he wouldn't think Q town OF this
/ size could support it, 80 when one oil
my own fellow townsmea admitted
! that We were IT, ! began 10 unbutton
my vest which was getting too tight.
| and told him he could reserve half
OF his editorial page a week for us
But when J told my wife about it
| q always tell her everything-in my
sleep she minated that ! was an
easy mark That both the drummer
and the editor were trying to sell me
something and that's the way the men
always got caught, by fiattery-and
being a woman / suppose she knows.
She said that people would not read
my ad. any quicker than they would
the moving picture briefs boiled
down for busy people not ii they
knew it, and that the newspaper men
gave Drysdale, Cole and Lydia Pink
ham just the same kind OF dope when
they solicited advertising from them
| 50 when her sermonette had
| soaked into my bean my vest began
TO get loose again and my hat drop
down over my ears.
Nevertheless. knowing that we had
The choicest stock in our whole his
tory of forty-one years business. I felt
this If the People OF Bennington
and vicinity don't know or care
enough about their own welfare to hit
the trail for 227 Main St. without
having to be lured into it with Ban
ner advertisements, then let them re-
| main in ignorance and be sorry after
ward that's all
That night ! dreamed q dream, the
interpretation whereof led me to q
change Of mind in respect to adver.
Using and resolved to stick by the
Tanner after all
Methought / sat in church doing
comfortably until the noisy choir
singing the Doxology awoke me,
while gradually an ethereal, hay,
strange, twilight settled down about
From out the mist came two angels
(both of them apparently gentlemen)
and each with large base drum
from which they banged delightful
music. On the head Of one drum
were the letters "HHH" while the
ether bore the initials "HAW' In
nediately behind them came hu-
man being carrying q scroll, and on
the scroll was written
(to be continued
The rest Of this dream and the in
depreciation thereof will appear in to-
mOrrOW's Banner. Please telegraph
the editor at his expense for extra