Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1885 — Sydney Smith’s Anecdote. [ARTICLE]

Sydney Smith’s Anecdote.

“Have you ever observed,” wrote Sydney Smith, “what a dislike servants have to anything cheap? They hate saving their master’s money. I tried this experiment with great success the other day. Finding we consumed a great deal of soap I sat down in my thinking chair and took the soap question into consideration, and I found reason to suspect that we were using a very expensive article when a much cheaper one would serve the purpose better. I ordered half a dozen pounds of both sorts, but took the precaution of changing the papers, on which the prices were marked, before giving them into the hands of Betty. ‘Well, Betty, which soap do you find washes best?’ ‘Oh, please sir, the dearest, in the blue paper; it makes a lather as well again as the other.’ ‘Well, Betty, you shall always have it. then.’ And thus the unsuspecting Betty saved me some pounds a year. ” The Right Reverend Bishop Gilmour, Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the many eminent church dignitaries who have publicly adde d their emphatic indorsement to the wonderful efficacy of St. Jacobs Oil in cases of rheumatism and other painful ailments.