Catalogue shows how times change
July 19, 2009 – 12:06 amCatalogue shows how times change.
Such as an advertisement for ‘reliable worm cakes,’ 22 cents each. ‘You can save your children from much suffering and in many cases save their lives. No other disease is so fatal to children as worms. Unfortunately, they are seldom free from them.’
Or there is this: the Heidelberg Electric Belt, guaranteed to ‘enable you to face the world anew. $18 will bring to you health and strength, vigor, manliness [apparently no such help for women], and happiness. Why suffer in silence?’
Why, indeed, when you can strap this electronic devise around your lower waist (batteries included) and ‘do more good for yourself than six months of doctoring … to resolve disorders of the nerves, stomach, liver and kidneys … doing more than all the pills, washes, injections etc. possible.more
