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.
~ Miss Beryl Mills for Rexona Soap, 1927
via National Library of Australia
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~ Ivory Soap ad, 1932
via Smithsonian Archives
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“Out of every 100 college men - only 33 own cars - only 44 own golf clubs - only 66 use a typewriter - only 67 smoke cigarettes - only 95 use a razor….But 100 use Bath soap”Guys, I wear my mortarboard in the bath. Don’t you?
(via pricingham)
