Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1895 — Some Free Advertising [ARTICLE]

Some Free Advertising

A physician in the Medical and Surgical Journal tells a story of Dr. Holmes. It was when a son had been born to him, and, while he was usually very prompt at the Harvard medical school, he was missed one morning. Finally he entered the room hurriedly, glanced around with a smile and said: “Gentlemen, I know I’m late, but there is a little stranger at my house.” And then, with an expression such as only Holmes* face could assume, he continued: “Now, can any one tell me what well-known business firm in Boston he is like?” There was no answer. “He Is Little & Brown,” said the Doctor, with a twinkle In his eye. That was a good advertisement for Little & Brown, but it Is probable that that pioneer of American humorists, “John Phoenix,” gave another Boston firm a better one. Entering a large store in that city one day he said to one of the proprietors, “I think I would like to tuttle a little.” “To tuttle! What do you mean by that?” “I don’t know,” gravely replied the humorist, “but I read an invitation over the door, ‘Call & Tuttle,’ and thought I would like to know how to do it”