A combination of apricots and dates is new for breakfast, and you will find brown sugar and butter delicious on cooked cereal.Come on, kids, you can rebel a little bit better than that! Slouching in your chair looking grumpy is nothing. I can manage that every day, whether or not I am feeling rebellious.
But apricots and dates stuck together in a bowl will make all the difference to the rebels' parents. Look at them over on the right, they are so happy, pretending to be Scott and Zelda. Except that Scott and Zelda wouldn't be up at the crack of dawn eating cereal.
And there is brown sugar and butter on the hot cereal, too. If Scott really did wake up for breakfast, he'd have to rethink the whole last half of The Great Gatsby. Gatsby would decide he doesn't need to win Daisy back after all: what he really needs is some Cream of Wheat. The Cream of Wheat is better company, anyway.
This 1927 advertisement is from the digital collections of Duke University.
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Coming Attractions!
I am working on a story that I thought at first glance was going to be straightforward, but happily - it isn't. It's a ghost story AND a true crime case which gripped Brooklyn in the summer of 1878. And here is the strangest part (for me): I am distantly related to the accused, and my husband is related to the victim, who was, like him, an English immigrant. I am fairly sure that he is related to her, since her niece had the same unusual, regional surname as his great great grandmother.
I will be working on this one for a few days before I start posting, since there is plenty of genealogy work to do as well as writing up the crime case. The first installment should be appearing early next week.
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9 comments:
Congrats on the awards, Lidian :)
LOL love the ad, butter AND apricots and dates...that'll get them going in the morning!
Looking forward to the ghost story :)
And here I thought the kids were rebelling because they are eating off of the everyday china! Silly me!
Erie, erie, erie, you and your hubby being distant relatives of the victim and the slayer. Could make for a very interesting twist.
Congratulations on the Awards!
And I can just see you and your husband, as the mystery unfolds, glaring at each other across the dinner table.
Jayne - Thank you. At the moment I am puzzling over the family connections. A lot of these people were hiding in the cellar when the census taker came around. And heaven only knows what they were doing there, come to think of it...
Condo Blues - Maybe because of that, too!
Kris - I think so too..and the victim's best friend was a Mrs. Hicks, a distant cousin of my Hicks grandmother's family. So there's that, too.
Phyl - Thanks! So far we have not exchanged glares, but I need to draw him a little diagram of how he is related to the victim. It hasn't sunk in yet really - since he does not spend hours poring over the IGI and the census and the Brooklyn Eagle, lol.
Very true...the crack of dawn would have seen Scott & Zelda sucking the last of the gin out of the bottom of the bathtub.
I'm all tingly in anticipation of the ghostly true crime caper.
wonderful ad finds, I have recently started to delve deep into archive searches so it is great to find a site that uses these same resources to create great content for a blog.
Bill - You're right, they wouldn't be sitting upright eating cereal, that's for sure.
J.W. - Thanks! I agree, the resources we have online now are just amazing.
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