This Russwin Food Cutter is quite a product. Not only does it cut food, but it makes you younger, thinner and more fashionable while you sleep! It has an air of The Portrait of Dorian Gray meets Through the Looking Glass. I have a feeling that the old lady is stuck in a secret back pantry somewhere on the other side of the looking glass, sleeping, while her younger, transformed self is out in public in the main part of the house, happily grinding things up. Wonder what's for breakfast? (Perhaps we don't really want to know...)
This delightfully odd poster (ca 1900-1917) is from the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
Tomorrow we'll look at either a weird patent medicine or the life of the first woman pharmacist in the US (depending on levels of inspiration, etc. - because if I don't find something exciting and interesting on a particular day, you're not likely to either).
6 comments:
I think that's Sweeney Todd's sister.
HumorSmith - Miss Todd will be starring in the sequel, as soon as someone writes it for her (she's too busy grinding things up, as you know).
Call me crazy...but here I am straining to try to read what time it is on the clock!
I would have tried one of those things to make me slimmer while I sleep, only I've found stomach trouble does the job more effectively. Probably not as pleasantly. I wish I'd found this earlier so I could have postponed the illness.
a.A.a. - Oh dear...I hope that you are feeling better!
SnackHound - Oh, I do things like that too...What time is it, can you see? Looks like 7:30 am on the right to me, maybe 6:30 pm on the left?
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