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When with some soap a salesman bold Comes in your place to there unfold His samples, and proceeds to say: " This equals, sir, in every way The Ivory; 'tis made in fact By the same formula exact; 'Tis just as white, indeed the man Who makes this soap by perfect plan, Has made the Ivory o'er and o'er For Procter & Gamble heretofore. Besides, this soap brings to the till More profit than the Ivory will." He means tn use by such a game, Reply to all who do intend Your reputation and good name To use you thus to gain their end : A fraud or counterfeit to sell "When you for your own soap créate. Of what is known and proven wcll. Upon its worth detnand as great This means his soap will never go A,s, Ivory Soap this day can claim. On its own merits Lt or slow; fttKTffl " the(SUDe; And you, like him, the truth must toss, ?ut have no time, I teil you true, Cfean' overboard, or 11 at loss [.and lcZtrïTer SfcnT' STSSÏteK íítrehart0Ud?maUndthe With ar Jrecommend." For none chase with imitations frail Don't buy the soap that salesmen say: An article that has no sale. " Is like the Ivory every way," And who for counterfeit will pay For grocers can this tale unfold The price of genuine goods to-day ? Of every hundred cakes they sold Then whence can the advantage flow On seventy-five a loss they bore, Or how can you "more profit" know? Or else it ne'er had left their store. A WORD OF WARNING. There are many white soaps, each represented to be "just as good as the ' Ivory ' ; " they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of the germine. Ask for "Ivory" Soap and Insist upon getting it. Copyright 1886, by Procter i Gamble.