Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1909 — SPICY SAYINGS [ARTICLE]

SPICY SAYINGS

AN APPALLING POSSIBILITY. Broadway is laughing over a story about a wine agent and an eminent actor, whom the other had attempted to make use of aa an advertising medium. The agent is introducing a new brand of champagne, and the' other day he induced the actor to assist him in the consumption of a pint bottle of it at one of the fashionable restaurants. “And now I’ll tell you how you can do me a good turn —if you should happen to feel like It," he said. “Delighted to do you a good turn, of course,” responded the actor. “It’s this way,” the agent explain- _ ed. “You are traveling about the country a great deal and stopping at the best hotels. Now I want thiß champagne to become known in order to create a demand for it. What I would like you to do is to ask for my wine by name at the hotels you go *o, so that the hotel men will get tb* Idea that it is popular in New York and send in their orders for it. You won’t mind doing that for me* will you?” *Tu ask for it with pleasure,” the actor declared. "But, good heavens manl” he added in sudden alarm. ' “Suppose they should have it?”