The Herald, 1907-10-25, Page 6dS ruvra ing" Costly
to Employers
WmAts9 ra9so-a 0"
Three hundred rood six million two hund-
red and fifty thousand minutes, or 5,104,166
hours and 40 minutes, er 212,673 days 14
2ous•e and 40 minutes, are wasted annually
ler the girl stenographers of Chicago In put-
ting up .their back hair.
Reduced to figures this statement looks
appalling, yet the facts and the figures are
hedisputable. They aro based on actual tim-
ing. and caiculnted in the mass from the
actual number of working women stenogra-
phers of Chicago.
The cost of putting up the back hair of
Chicago's girl stenographers is approxira
aately $71,558.47, the figures being based on
.ETIs daily average waste of time per head
er head is good) by the 25,000 female sto
magraphers of the city, figured on the bast
of an average earning of $872 a year. This
Wet falls directly upon the employer,
That the average girl stenographer would
save thirty-eight minutes a day if she was
bald (and didn't wear a wig) is shown by
au investigation carried on simultaneously
1& Rive offices where girls are employed. The
otse who wasted the least time was e. small,
l$'0tty little girl whose beautiful black hair
1la'aa arranged in a low, smooth coiffure. She
Went exactly eight minutes a day on her
flair during offleo hours in a period of seven
Working days. The man on the nest desk
time employed to keep tally all during the
elay. Tho one erbo wasted the meet time
was a hantiserae blonde, with a bi_;, attra-
loisng pompadour, who epewt an average of 1
flour end 16 minutes on her hair. That rais-
ed the ave—rage.
It was noticeable that among the twenty-
af ; young women, representing all classes
of office and business workers, who were
placed under surveillance, and also rej re
wasting practically all the existing types
of stenographers, the blondes wasted mare
tisae than the brunettes, and the "betwixt
end between" type waste?. les than either.
The homely girls wasted much less time
than did the pretty ot,ett, with the single
exception of a girl whose only really sat -
tractive feature was her hair.
In styles of hairdressing the difference in
time wasted was remarlmote. The girls who
Wave their hair in •penneemour wasted almost
double the time wasted by those who aftcot`
ea the law smooth coiffure. It was aotlee-
Cillo also that the "natural" pompadours
Peet the firm more time than those upheld
iso' "
This waste of time was only incidental,
however, for, oddly enough, even the most
wasteful of the girls paid five times as
Bauch attention to her crack hair as to that
:a front, usually contenting herself with a
Wimple slap or pet at the front hair, while
devoting many minutes to pushiug up, ad-
fusting, and pinning the stray locks at the
back of the neck,
Hare Is a sample repurt made by ono of
the investigators : •
No. 9, blonde, high pompadour. Employed
ext -- —, Wages, $8 per weak.
Tuesday -
3 a. m.--A•rrlved at ',trice; 8 minutes 30
rearonds Piecing hair at mirnar.
8.10 --Reached desk; opened it, fixed hair
1 minute 10 seconds,
9:46—Went for drink, fixed hair 4 min-
8.61 --Sat down, fixed hair 25 seconds.
0:55—Fixed Hair 2 minutes.
l0:21—Fixed hair 12 seconds.
20:25—Went to mirror, axed hair 1 min-
ute 6 seconds.
t0:80—Returned to dealt, fixed hair 2 min-
utes 40 seconds.
10:35 --Fixed hair 7 minutes 4 seconds.
10:52—Fixed hair I mzaute 5 seconds,
12:1.9—Fixed hair. 25 seconds.
2i:f0--bleed hair 48 seconds.
, 21:50—Fixed hair .(few ...wands).
74445—dent to mirror, fixed hair 2 aaitt-
ereas-elave hair momentary petttaxy . 'oe-
-,2orw stantieg for lunch.
7.2:4el—Peeturned from Iuncb, fixed hair 1
remote (she was lata).
47—Returned oto uesk, fi::ad her hair 5
;re athaii.
1.15 to 2.50—In old loan's office; don't know
Veep* often she fixed her hair.
,,.,,.;x$,51.—Returned to desk, fixed hair 2 min -
mem 24 'seconds.
3.1S --Stepped writing and fixed hair (short
0.84 --Stopped and fixed hair nearly 3 min-
3:660—wAs fixing hair when I looked up—
elms unknown.
:17—Fixed hair 2 mit:etes 18 seconds,
4:25—Went to mirror, fixed hair 5 inin-
tes.
By actual timing that girl spent 50 min-
ettes and 9 seconds of her employer's time
in feting her hair durong the work day, aI-
aaem an eighth of the total working hours,
and, 'besides that, there are 1 hoar and 35
minutes unaceounted for, and several times
when, in all probability, she was fixing her
heir while the watcher was engaged and
eonld not see what rho was doing. can it
sen hour: the estimate scams fair.
The watchers who are engaged in discov-
ering what the girl stenographer actually
does in the office where she is employed to
work also have kept data on other ways in
which they waste their time which probably
'trill .prove Interesting to the workers them-
selves as well as to employers, and will eervo
toe warn young offloe workers against prac-
tices which waste time and mllltate against
3110 chance of Promotion.—Chicago Tribune.
Minard's Liniment Cures. Diphtheria.
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A Queer Old Artist's Model.
11 America has a real professional
artist's model at all, one old fellow who
is universally popular in the studios is
surely it. Itis talent is not limited to a
faculty for posing,. In fact, it would be
hard to fix upon what is the limit. He
can do anything from chopping up pic-
ture stretchers for firewood to landscape
gardening, and if the only available tools 1
are a navy cutlass and a palette knife
he will endeavor to make just as good a
,jou of it with them as if he bad a full
darpenter's kit.
Ile will mend anything from a broken
easel to a broken electric wire, he has
been an actor, a carpenter and a sailor,
awl now upon occasion combines all
three and "do" poses besides. 111 311111 -
mer he is always to be found at the
country place of some one of the illus.
ttrators where he poses when he is ileed-
ed and makes the garden when he is
not,
But what is conceded to be his record
is that he actually posed every day for
a. whole week in the mnnth of August;
he. persevered with the thermometer
hovering somewhere in the near vicinity
of ninety, clad sometimes in a snit of
oilskins, than which there is no hotter
garment made, except, perhaps, the fur
overcoat, cap and boots with which the
oilskins were alternated, while the artist
made pictures of Russian sailors in an
ice -bound harbor,
'When a man can do that and still re-
main cheerful he is approaching as near
the angelic state as is safe for him to
get. He has Recounted Joh.—From "Be-
ing a Model,' by Charles F. Peters in
Bohemian for October.
LEARN DRESS -MAKING BY MAIL
in your spare time at home, or
Take a Personal Course at Sallool.
To enable all to learn we teach on
cash or instalment plan. We also teach a
personal class at school once a month.
Class commencing last Tuesday of each
month. These lessons teaches how to cut,
fit and put together any garment from the
plainest, hirt waist suit, to the most elabor-
ate dress: The whole family can learn from
one course. We have taught over seven,
thousand dress -making, and guarantee to
give five hundred dollars to any one that
cannot learn between the age of l4 and
40. Von cannot learn dress -making as
thorough as this course teaches if you
work in shops for years. Beware of imita-
tions as we employ no one outside the
school. This is the only experienced Dress
Cutting School in Canada and excelled by
none in any other country. Write at once
• for particulars, as we have cut our rate one-
s third for a short time. Address :—
SANDERS' DRESS -CUTTING SCHOOL,
31 Erie St., Stratford, Ont, Canada.
The Ancaster Papers.
The report of the Historical Manu-
scripts Oommission on the papers of the
Earl of Ancaster, preserved at Grim-
thorpe, conta:ne mashy interesting ex-
tracts anterior and subsequent to the
reign of Elizabeth. Ung of these, writ-
ten by Lord Howard of Effingham to
Lord -Willoughby the year after the Ar-
mada, is valuable as showing the indom-
itable spirit and the pasionate zeal which
animated the patriotism of the day.
There is also a letter from the Princess
Elizabeth, third daughter of George
the Third, describing in a charming fem-
inine style to the Duchess of Ancaster
how the Royal family had been spending
a holiday at Weymouth. "The King,"
she says, "was never batter in his life,
which makes us all happier than you
can imagine. Manna really is a little
fatter, which is a great advantage and
pleases us very much, as we thought she
wanted it. You may easily believe that
the time we spent thele was extremely
pleasant, as we had no forms nor noth-
ing that was formal." So much for the
relaxations of Royalty when George the
Third was King.—Newcastle Chronicle.
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ENGLISH SPAWN LINIMENT
Removes all hard, soft arid calloused
lumps and blemishes from horses, blood
spavin, curbs, splints, ringbone, sweeney,
stifles, sprains; sore and swollen throat,
coughs, etc. Save $50 by use of one
bottle. Warranted the most wonderful
Blemish Cure ever known. Sold by drug-
gists.
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Railway Men's Working Hours in
Japan.
In the opinion of the Japanese Imper-
ial Railway authorities the frequency of
railway accidents of late is largely due
to the excessive working hours of the
railway staff. in view of the fact that
the•'aceiden w. occur usually at night
time.. According to the vernacular pa-
pers the railway staff are on duty for
twenty-four hours consecutively and are
off duty for the next twenty-four hours.
The authorities are said to be busily
investigating a proposal to change the
present system.
Recently a responsible official of the
railway bureau travelled her train to var-
ious parts of the country late at ninht
and found most of the station staff
asleep. In Europe land America, it is
stated, the working hours of the railway
staff's vary from twelve to fifteen. Even
twelve hours is considered excessive,
and a proposal is on foot to reduce the
working day to eight hours. In Japan
it is stated the hours can be reduced to
twelve without greatly increasing the
present staff. and the railway authori-
ties are making investigations to that
end.—From the Japan Chronicle.
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Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, etc.
TO SAVE HORSES FROM FIRE.
It is almost impossible, without great
danger to human life, to save horses
from burning stables. The smell of the
smoke and the glare of the light craze
the animals; and it has been as much as
a man's life was wo•ridi to enter the
stalls in an attempt to cut loose the hal-
tor-held occupants.
A simple but ingenious device hasbeen
invented by a gentleman who 'himself
was the owner of a large- number of
horses. which were burned to death sim-
ply because they were in their stalls and
could not get out.
Even when the horses were released
from their stalls during a fire they will
not always leave, for the stall is the
horse's home, and is the only place in
which be believes himself to be safe.
Once there he will remain and burn to
death rather than leave it, unless driven
nut by something he dreads more than
fire, and this is water.
The releasing device consist of a long
pipe running through the stalls and to
the end of the building. To the end of
the pipe there is attached a patent
valve with a handle. le each stall there
is a nozzle. Should the stable catch fire
a turn of the handle releases the horse,
brings the nozzle to a horizontal posi-
tion, and at the same time a stream of
water issues forth from each. nozzle.
The spray of water reaches the head
and shoulders of each animal, whether it
is standing or lying down. The water
will drive them into the gangway, and
they cannot enter any •other stall with-
out finding a stream of water there. In
the gangway they must remain, and the
task of the groom to drive them into
the street becomes an easy one.
PAST REDEMPTION.
Muriel—Why didn't you marry* Isbn?
Everybody says he has reformed.
Maud --Yes; but he reformed too late.
His money was all gone.
,AS TO SPARING THE ROD,
It All Depends on the Way 'Iron
Use It.
We hear a good bit about moral sua-
sion, and the perils of punishment once
in vogue. .Asa matter of fact, the worst
part of a whipping is that the average
mother gives it wb.en she is out of tem-
per, instead of when her child deserves
it, The following by Mrs, J. 0. F. in the
New York Evening Telegram, is inter-
esting;
Love and duty is all that is needed to
govern children. I. have seven, and do
all my own work. I did the same with
all. Baby was the first work of the day.
JIe got his bath and his food and took
his nap. When hegot old enough he
played by himself. He must obey. If he
did not I took the good old cat-o'-nine-
tails and gave him ,a dose and told him
what he got it for, and the same when
they got older if they told a story or
deceived me in any way. I have three
that have graduated from school and
work with their father. I have never
known any 'of theta to tell mea lie or
give me any impudence. I love my chil-
dren and want to see them law-abiding
citizens.
Don't think 1 had to use the cat-o'-
nine-tails but very seldom; only when
really necessary.
FOR ALLHOU tS
Eczema, Salt Rheum, Pustules, etc. -no remedy
heals more qui '' dies Mira Ointment.
Mira relieves in tion, soothes pain, causes
mew tissue to cover taw surfaces, and reitorea theskin to healthy amootisless.
lifts.✓,-, ki cb5, Fes ,Qouecaurf Street, Toronto,
wrier. 1'$ is a roo,drs I turn" J; Tremlett,
Hares llox, says: "T J,r„ri y recomuse uiymaarMira
Ointment for Eczema.'
Miro Tablets and }Mood Tonle help to a more
thorough cure. At dr &¢tiss—or from The
Chen -lifts' to. of Caeada,, Limited, Harnilton—
Toronto. insisa on Feting
Stealing Elephants in Siam.
The stealing of elephants seems to be
proceeding in Siam on a scale which the
owners of elephants do not appear to
find at all humorous. The industry in
which the elephants that are stolen are
so largely used is the teak timber trade,
and it has been reported by the British
Consul that the thefts are interfering
with the profits of the work. The ex-
tent of the trouble may be gauged by
the simple figures conveyed by the facts
that in a space of a Iittle more than a
year one firm had twenty-six elephants
stolen, of which fourteen were recovered,
end another twenty-two stolen and thir-
teen recovered. The crowning insult
appears to have been the stealing of
one of the Oozxsni's own transport ele-
phants belong -Mg to the British Govern-
ment, whieh has now been missing for
nearly a year.—Country Life.
An Ind $J 1e Cure
For Sprains, Ringbone, Splint, Curb,
Sweeney, IA/fitness and Soft Bunches,
Keudizll�m's•Stpavin Care has 110 equal.
3f01V'raxsez P.Q., Sept.:?, 'o6.
"T have the rare of a nnttiber of horses
and lla've ed yeur remedies, which
always proved ieff.&'ltible."A.Bailk e;on.
Be prepared kce��1 ILcntiall's always in
the stable. titer br,oi 'Treatise on the
Horse " f ree frein dealers or
$1 a bold—8'ice$5,
Dr. 8.3.
Menden C6.,
Enasburg
Falls,
Vermont,
U.S.A.
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Wedding Ring as a Prize.
At the annual shooting' match of the
Volunteer company at Ticehurst, near
Tunbridge Walls, Misses Eden offered a
wedding ring as a prize to the unmarried
man malting the highest score, on condi-
tion that the winner should marry with-
in a year or return the ring. The success-
ful competitor was Color -Sergeant Tinto.
—London Daily Mail.
About the meanest thing a woman can
do when her husband's name is mention-
ed is to sigh, look resigned and say noth-
ing.—Ohicago News,
6,00
'T'HE plain Bangle Bracelet
will be worn more this
season than ever before.
OUR $5.00 Bracelet is made
of solid gold, and can be
supplied either in the oval or
round shape.
IT is quite heavy and the finish
and workmanship is the
finest possible.
E enclose it in a fide velvet
lined case for $5.00,
soma firer our casinod5gntse.
RvinE nos.,
�tt
Limited.
134.185 YortttS`i,4 St,
41.1,414
B EER'' HELPS
D IGESTION
WHAT little alcohol there is
WHAT
Ontario-brewed beer
greatly aids the stomach to
digest its food', —ask your
own doctor if beer with meals
wouldn't be good for you.
Beer increases the flow of
gastric juices, and so helps much
to cure dyspepsia. The right
use of beer tones the whole di-
gestive tract,—makes the system
get all the good of food instead
of but part of that good.
*BEM le aternt which corers Inger, alas, porter, and stonti'
and, in the practise of Ontario brewers, implies barornces
magi under most hygienic conditions, from Ontario barley
'the beet to the world) malt, hops, and pure water. 109
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Suicides' Bonnets.
Mr. Walter Schroder, the North Lon-
don Coroner, who has had a very exten-
sive experience of inquests on subsides,
has drawn attention to an interesting
psychological fact which has probably
not previously been noticed. While hold-
ing an inquest on the remains of a poor
woman who in a fit of frenzy jumped
into one of the Hampstead ponds, the
fact was elicited that her bonnet was
found on the bank, dry. This led the
Coroner to observe that a woman when
about to take her life usually removes
her hat or bonnet and places it carefully
out of the reach of damage before come.
mitting her rash act, and he instanced
the recent case of a young woman who
before jumping in front of a train not
only took off her hat, but deliberately
put something on it to keep it gem
blowing away. This curious behaviour,
which is not merely casual, but as far
as Mr. Schroder's observation and ex-
perience goes, invariably reveals a pe-
culiar twist of the female mind and may
be taken as a striking instance of the
prevalence of the ruling passion even on
theicle. brink of eternity.—Newcastle Chron-
I was cured of a severe cold by
MINARD'S LINIMENT.
Oxford, N. S. R. 1'. HEWSON.
I was cured of a terrible sprain by
'IINARD'S LINIMF,NT.
FRED COULSON,
Yarmouth, N.S. Y.A.A.C.
I was cured of Black Erysipelas by
MINARD'S LINIMENT.
Ingiesville. J. W. RUGGLES.
Kansas Hospitality.
Only forty-five persons sat down to
dinner at John .Armstrong?s home near
Doniphan Sunday, There was no special
attraction or occasion, and those who
were there say there was nothing un-
usual about it, and that as high as sixty
persons have been to the Armstrong
home for dinner at ,one table. There are
fifteen persons at the Armstrong home
who are there all the time—Mr. and
Mrs. Armstrong, eleven children and
two hired hands. The rest of those who
were present Sunday at dinner were kin
who dropped in yithout notice to spend
the day. Nothing was said about the
large crowd, and to those present it
seemed as ordinary as a family gathering
of a dozen or less. Mrs. Armstrong has
a great reputation as a cook, and it is
said that any one who eats of her coop-
ing is never satisfied until he is back
again.—Wathena Times.
Minard's Liniment Cures Garget in Cows.
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AN AIM.
Give uta a man with an aim,
Whatever that aim may be,
Whether it'e wealth or whether it's fame,
It matters not to me.
Let slim walk the path of right,
And keeps his atm in sight,
And work and pray in faith away
With his ares 011 the glittering height.
Give me a man who says,
"1 will do something well,
And make the fleeting days
A story of labor tell."
Though the aim he Inas is small,
It's batter than none at all;
With something to do the whole year through
Ito will net .t Mee . or fa 1.
But Satan weaves a snare
For the foot of those that stray,
with never a thought or care
Where the path may lead away;
The man who has no atm.,
Not only leaves no name
When this life, is dobe, but ton to one
Ile leaven a record of shame.
Give me a man whose heart
Is filled with ambition's fire,
Who sets his mark in the start,
And keeps moving higher and higher,
Better to die in the strife,
The hands of labor rife,
Than to glide with the stream in an Idle
dream
And live es purposeless life.
Batter to rise and climb
And never reach tho goal,
Than to drift along with time,
An aimless, worthless soul.
Aye, better to climb and fall,
Or sow, though the yield be small,
Than to throw away day after daY,
And never strive at all.
Undermined London.
Few have any conception of the vast
network of pipes and cables there is be-
neath the streets of London. In the city
alone, the engineer to the corporation
reports, the total length of the ;rains
and conduits in the subway extends to
13 miles 837 yards. The gas mains
total 2 miles 603 yards, the water mains
1 mile 1,688 yards, the electric light
cables 2,1442 yards, the hydraulic power
mains 1,656 yards, the pneumatic tubes
of the general postoffice 1 mile 1,353
yards, and the telegraph and telephone
wires 2 miles 1,145 yards. --Pall Mall
Gazette.
ISSUE NO. 43. 1907.
THE SIMPLE LIFT; IN LONDON.
The Aristocracy is Eating Grass and
Drinking Barley Water.
What with caravanning, camping out,
renouncing meat and wine, and buying
ready-made frocks, a good many of us
are trying our best to lead the simple
fife. It is doubtless better for the next
generation tthat the young girls of this
can scarcely be induced to touch the cup
that inebriates as well as cheers.
Even young men, says the Gentlewo-
man, Neville Lytton among them, are
vaunting the virtues of fruit, nuts and
vegetables as food. And barley water,
actually barley water, is becoming popu-
lpr as a drink, Mrs. Earle of " Surrey
Carden' role and aunt of the present
Lord Lytton, is an ardent disciple of
vegetarianism; so, too, although less
dogmatic a one. the Princess of Rutland
aye! and Lady Plymouth and the
young Lady Lytton and the Barone de
Meyer besides.
Anyhow, it is quite a sign of the times
that the Duchess of Portland gave a
luncheon party some time ago at the
Eustace Miles restaurant, and her guests
included Arthur Balfour and Lord Revel-
stoke and the Duchess of Marlborough.
Jos—and all stomach
and bowel disorders,
i Makes puny babies
nplump and rosy. Proved
Tt by 50 years' successful
it use. Ask your druggist
for it—
Nurses' and Nol s's ireisure
—25c.-6 bottles 81.25.
-„_J4etional Druz & Cier.,ica1 Co., Limited
ti�ti r h4oaaresl
s'x.�3i".
Simple Arithmetic.
Perhaps she read the statement made
by the Department of Agriculture that
the value of the eggs laid by the hens of
the United States in a year would be
enough to pay off the national debt, ory
maybe, says Harper's Weekly, she "just
thought it up," but, anyway, this pretty
little Baltimore girl was convinced that
she had everything all fixed. She has
been engaged to a very nice young fellow
for same time, but to most people the
amount of his present salary would ap-
pear an insurmountable obstacle to mat-
rimony. This was the view of her father,
but when expressed she met i i; with a
happy smile.
"Oh, I have thought that all out," she
declared.
"You have, eh 7" papa asked, knowing
something of his daughter's business
abilities.
"Yes. And it was so easy," she bub-
bled. "I was passing the market the
other day, and I saw a dear little polka-
dotted hen for only sixty cents, and I
bought her. I read in a poultry paper
that a hen will raise twenty chicks in a
season. Well, next year, we'll have
twenty-one hens, and so of course there
will be 420 chicks the next year, and
8,400 the next and 168,000 the next, and
3,360,000 the next. And just see what
that amounts to -why, selling them at 50
cents each would give us $1,500,000 in five
years, and that won't be so long to wait
for that much."
111 11-1
Mange. Prairie Scratches and every Loral of
eontaelops Itch on human or anira4ls cured
in 30 minutes by Wolford's Sanitary Lotion.
It raver falls. Sold by druggists.
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Family of Blind Musicians.
A concert as pathetic as it was inter-
esting took place lately at Hamburg. Tho
concert givers were a sister and two bro-
thers, all blind; a fourth brother, who
is studying composition at the Berlin
Academy of Music and whose works have
already been very favorably commented
on, being similarly afflicted. The sister
possesses a fine a.::d well-trained soprano
voice of considerable compass, while one
brother, who on this occasion acted as
her accompanist, holds an appointment
at Muhiheim-an-der-Ruhr as organist.
The third brother is a 'cellist of consid-
erable talent. The family are natives
of Muhlheim.—Pall Mall Gazette.
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Mniard's Liniment Cures Distemper.
On the Other Hand.
The preacher was offering hie felieitee
tions to the newly married couple.
"Young man," he said, "you have
gained one of the fairest maids in the
community; and you, young lady, have
won a stalwart partner, whose good
right arm will level every obstacle that
stands in the way of your success in
life."
"Left, Mae Goodman, left," corrected
the bride, with a proud look at the
sinewy athlete by her side, "George is
a southpaw, you knew."
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That St,'''
tet.
The strongest wind that ever blew can't
rip away a roof covered with uelf locking.
ae OSHAWA vv
GALVANIZE 1's'
STEEL SIIINGlL.ES
Rain can't gat through it in 25 years
(guaranteed in writing for that long—good
for a century, realty) -.lire can't bother such
a roof—proof against alt the elements—the
chew est GOOD roof there is.
rite us and wo'll show you why it
coats least to roof right. Just address
The PEDLAR People Sfl a
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