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®ay give you dangerous delusions about yourself. If you acquire this sparkle, you will have the best “good looks” anyone can have, regardless of your age or physical make-up.— American Magazine.T~7
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Macy’s, New York’s big store, has begun to feel sorry for the city dweller who ’s life has not been enriched by a visit to a realsure- enough-honest-to-John country store. According to the advertisements, on Monday, Macy’s invited the public to come see “A country store from the turn of the century, crammed with everything from a cracker barrel to a whalebone corset-over 700 quaint items.”
Well, the poor New Yorkers, at least, have had an opportunity to see what a country store looked like—but they’ve missed the real point of a country store, the chief value of which lay In the conversation furnished by the loafers.
Get someone to tell you of the tales that came from Schwarts’s store porch, or from Wood’s store while waiting for the bell to sound the arrival of the mail, or any other gathering place in the county, for every community had one or two. New York missed that part of the country store, and it was the most important put. The items of merchandise that seem “quaint” now are the same items of today that will be quaint a few years hence; it’s the stories that the city dwellers will not get.
o o' o —, There ain’t nothing quite so remarkable as an inventor. Some fellow now has invented a phonograph record to put you to sleep! - , The ^publisher* o| thU, “sleep record" guarantee that if toe record doesn’t help the insomnia victim relax, go to sleep and wake up refreshed, then the record may
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