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Pennsylvania town turned itself out one breathless summer day not long ago to watch an entertainment given in a large airy barn by a family of wandering geniuses, not gypsies or minstrels, certainly not agents as the term is generally understood, but hard-headed Yankee originals with something of their own to sell and apparently a novel way of their own of selling it. The something was a certain s... More

Pennsylvania town turned itself out one breathless summer day not long ago to watch an entertainment given in a large airy barn by a family of wandering geniuses, not gypsies or minstrels, certainly not agents as the term is generally understood, but hard-headed Yankee originals with something of their own to sell and apparently a novel way of their own of selling it. The something was a certain soap, guaranteed of the purest; the method of advertisement was to take it as the theme of a simple farce, a theme varied by all manner of songs in its praises and allusions to its perfections, brought as by accident into the pauses of a banal dialog. In the brief play each member of the band had a part. The leader represented himself as a fashionable doctor, the rush of whose city practice had driven him to the country for leisure and fresh air; his brother figured as a wealthy friend of the physician, a millionaire off for a holiday; the doctors two young sons flirted madly with the millionaires pretty daughter and quarreled with each other about her behind their parents backs; the smaller children in the roles of errand-boy, page and petted little housemaid saw to it that the audience was kept smiling at their tricks, their blunders and their comical songs.
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