Humbugs by Mrs. H. E. Sawyer-Hopkins

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 6, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 39.

Humbugs

By Mrs. H. E. Sawyer-Hopkins

MANY substances advertised as pure, genuine, unadulterated, and some even under the "pure food law," belong to the spurious category. They should come under the head of frauds, fakes, humbugs, and quackery. Beware of them.

No expense is spared in contriving large and showy advertisements of "sure cures" for every ailment. Some advertisers resort to one method, and some to another.

Hundreds of testimonials are easily drawn up, by persons employed for that purpose, declaring marvelous cures effected by these so-called remedies; and by such testimonials, many persons are deceived.

Some forty-eight years ago, I passed through an experience of this kind, which taught me a lesson never to be forgotten. Several testimonials were given me by charlatans, and I spent half a day searching for four or five of the writers. Not one of them ever lived at the places designated.

Mrs. H. E. Sawyer-Hopkins.