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Show WHERE THE PIN MONEY GOES. Some time ago, a women of spacious appearance, and representing herself to be all sorts of things, but principally princi-pally a doctress from an eastern town, visited Kansas city, and calling upon a number of ladies, induced them to subscribe sub-scribe five dollars for some lotion or cosmetic, or what not, which, in the opinion of our good ladies, seemed to be a good thing. The adventuress, or whatever you may call her, took some four or five hundred dollars' worth of orders for this new recipe, and with her money saiely pursed, she returned home, the subscribers being promised their purchase by express, upon her arrival home. Sure enough, in course of time, our lady speculators were notified, noti-fied, and to the express office each went, rather slyly, to be sure, to get the prize. Seventy-five cents charges were demanded de-manded and paid, and a skurry home followed, and each inquisitive woman examined the package. There was a box, of small size, and in it the following follow-ing delicately written recipe : "Procure "Pro-cure some pure spring water or if not convenient, the coldest, purest cistern water possible. TaKe a long swallow of this upon going to bed at night, and nothing else." It need not be added that of the one hundred or more deluded women, not one dares to raise her head at the laugh which is going around at their expense. The experience is worth considerably more than five dollars, aud we presume it will be some days before they again invest in patent nostrums, brought around by plausible adventurers. Kansas City Journal of Commerce. |