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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

"The Sixties wanted to break the oppressive moral codes of organized religion, to attain vision by a daring individualism. But we left the generations who came after us in a spiritual vacuum. The young are struggling for identity in a world defined by material uncertainties and inequities, surreally juxtaposed pockets of feast and famine. Hence their vulnerability to political correctness, the only religion they know."

— Camille Paglia (via bixbi)

(Source: butt-thumper, via gloriesofthewest)

signum-crucis: We do not really want a religion that is right where we are right. What we want is a religion that is right where we are wrong.—G.K. Chesterton

signum-crucis:

We do not really want a religion that is right where we are right. What we want is a religion that is right where we are wrong.
—G.K. Chesterton

(via orthodoxbrit-deactivated2012070)

tuesday-johnson: ca. 1880’s, [tintype portrait of a gentleman in a riding outfit with his beloved high wheel racing bicycle] via Ebay Auctions

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1880’s, [tintype portrait of a gentleman in a riding outfit with his beloved high wheel racing bicycle]

via Ebay Auctions

lostsplendor: Oesterreich by Alphonse Mucha (via Via )

lostsplendor:

Oesterreich by Alphonse Mucha (via Via )

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lostsplendor: Ernst Freiherr von Althaus, Pilot, Germany c. 1916

lostsplendor:

Ernst Freiherr von Althaus, Pilot, Germany c. 1916

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lostsplendor: Anthony Fokker, c. 1912. “Anton Herman Gerard “Anthony” Fokker (6 April 1890 – 23 December 1939) was a Dutch aviation pioneer and an aircraft manufacturer. He is most famous for the fighter aircraft he produced in Germany during the First World War such as the Eindeckermonoplanes, the Fokker Triplane the and the Fokker D.VII, but after the collapse of Germany Fokker moved his business to theNetherlands and his company were responsible for a variety of successful aircraft including the Fokker trimotor, a successful passenger aircraft of the inter-war years. (via)”

lostsplendor:

Anthony Fokker, c. 1912.

“Anton Herman Gerard “Anthony” Fokker (6 April 1890 – 23 December 1939) was a Dutch aviation pioneer and an aircraft manufacturer. He is most famous for the fighter aircraft he produced in Germany during the First World War such as the Eindeckermonoplanes, the Fokker Triplane the and the Fokker D.VII, but after the collapse of Germany Fokker moved his business to theNetherlands and his company were responsible for a variety of successful aircraft including the Fokker trimotor, a successful passenger aircraft of the inter-war years. (via)”

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rifa: shadyoaks: vicfangirlguide: The Hen-Pecked Club’s Peace Box, a “patent cure for a cross wife”. The Hen-Pecked club was an organisation which encouraged men to do more household tasks to take some of the pressure off their wives. The ‘Peace Box’, also known as ‘the wife tamer’, was invented by a club member called Harry Tap in 1862. If a wife was nagging her husband too much, the husband could put her inside the box, which could be rocked like a child’s cot in order to send the wife to sleep. While she was sleeping the husband would perform all the chores then release his wife who would hopefully have calmed down. to their credit, they do try to do more household tasks but they kinda fuck it up entirely with this wife coffin here I cant stop laughing Imagine a victorian wife following around her husband like “YOU SHOULD HELP ME WITH THIS LAUNDRY AND THE SWEEPING AND THE MENDING AND THE WASHING AND THE BREAD BAKING AND THE-” and he just turns around, picks her up, carries her to the MASSIVE rocking bed he has in a back room or some shit, lies her freaking-out ass down on it, and then rocks it like “SSSSHHHOOOOOOOOOSSSSSHHH MILDRED SSSHSHHOOOOSHSHSHSHSHHHH” ARE YOU SERIOUS OH MY GOD THE VISUAL THOUGH. The wife is like “HARRY WHAT THE HELL IS THIS YOU SPENT YOUR FREE TIME MAKING A GIANT ROCKING BED INSTEAD OF MOPPING FLOORS I HATE YOU”

rifa:

shadyoaks:

vicfangirlguide:

The Hen-Pecked Club’s Peace Box, a “patent cure for a cross wife”. The Hen-Pecked club was an organisation which encouraged men to do more household tasks to take some of the pressure off their wives. The ‘Peace Box’, also known as ‘the wife tamer’, was invented by a club member called Harry Tap in 1862. If a wife was nagging her husband too much, the husband could put her inside the box, which could be rocked like a child’s cot in order to send the wife to sleep. While she was sleeping the husband would perform all the chores then release his wife who would hopefully have calmed down.

to their credit, they do try to do more household tasks

but they kinda fuck it up entirely with this wife coffin here

I cant stop laughing

Imagine a victorian wife following around her husband like “YOU SHOULD HELP ME WITH THIS LAUNDRY AND THE SWEEPING AND THE MENDING AND THE WASHING AND THE BREAD BAKING AND THE-” and he just turns around, picks her up, carries her to the MASSIVE rocking bed he has in a back room or some shit, lies her freaking-out ass down on it, and then rocks it like

“SSSSHHHOOOOOOOOOSSSSSHHH MILDRED SSSHSHHOOOOSHSHSHSHSHHHH”

ARE YOU SERIOUS OH MY GOD THE VISUAL THOUGH. The wife is like “HARRY WHAT THE HELL IS THIS YOU SPENT YOUR FREE TIME MAKING A GIANT ROCKING BED INSTEAD OF MOPPING FLOORS I HATE YOU”

(via eleneis)

the-seed-of-europe:

“The class of 1917 will overcome!” A postcard I found while antiquing with lostsplendor. A follower was kind enough to help me translate the (rather saucy) text on the back:

“My dear Auguste, 

I just received your letter from the 6th with pleasure. Thank you. It’ll be one more for the collection. In exchange I send one which is not bad either. Jean came on Sunday and we both went out because [?] his place was crowded. It was raining, we couldn’t go out but we went to the theatre Pathé and we both met two lovely ladies there. “Love, what do you do to us?!!!”. On the evening, we went to the “Cosmo” at eight, where we also met two ladies living at the Coteau (? I suppose it is a place). Jean got a girl and I a divorced woman with two daughter!!! At midnight we were still in their company in the streets! And you thought we shouldn’t be naughty, your brother and I! Jean plans to come [? to Mouchet maybe] . I got a card from Hasse (not sure of the spelling), he is at Chomouh (not sure of the spelling).

To the pleasure to read you, your sincere friend,

Claudius.”

"Young people themselves should focus less of their expectation on marriage as romance. It never was intended to be only the means by which two people, lost in each other, should find happiness. They should never have been encouraged, or allowed, to think it was this. Marriage may prove a gateway to heaven, or it may not. Certainly it will not be all heaven. Bringing children into the world and rearing them properly is an arduous undertaking, and a heavy responsibility. It calls for intelligence, knowledge, training, and many of the virtues: notably devotion, patience, capacity for faithful and hard labor through long years, and much self-forgetting. As such, people should approach it with consecration, like that of a knight, or one taking holy orders."

— William Gayley Simpson (via eugenicist)

(via seamofconsciousness)

digitalflaneur: Amish Vogue. I can’t get enough. Vogue Italia, February 2008

digitalflaneur:

Amish Vogue. I can’t get enough.

Vogue Italia, February 2008

(Source: melissaleigh3)