re: Pictures from days gone by....

"Snobbish Society's Schoolmaster". Caricature of Ward McAllister as an arse telling Uncle Sam he must imitate "an English snob of the 19th century" or he "will nevah be a gentleman". Published in Judge, November 8, 1890.



McAllister famously claimed that there were only 400 people who mattered in New York City ("If you go outside that number", he warned, "you strike people who are either not at ease in a ballroom or else make other people not at ease."). The number was popularly supposed to be the capacity of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor's ballroom. Lavish parties were held at the Astor mansion.

The Four Million, the title of a book by O. Henry, was a reaction to this phrase, expressing O. Henry's opinion that every human being in New York was worthy of notice.

ads from the May 1926 Amazing Stories magazine



The KKK book

1960

And she saying, "Get out of this house with those muddy shoes."

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Headaches have troubled humans for millennia, long before modern medicine provided effective treatments. One of the strangest historical remedies comes from the 1890s: vibration therapy. This involved placing a patient’s head inside a helmet and then striking a metal anvil beneath it with a mallet, sending vibrations through the skull. Whether this method actually eased pain or simply stunned the sufferer into silence remains unclear, but it highlights the desperate and sometimes bizarre lengths people went to in order to find relief from chronic headaches.

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Oh

OK

That gum massager appears to be working on that beautiful smile.

I reckon I am now officially old. I'm drooling over that Chris-Craft boat more than the skiers at the moment.