Cigarettes - The 1896 Cure for Asthma?
*** Cigares de Joy (Joy's Cigarettes) Immediately Relieve Asthma, Whee z ing, Chronic Bronchitis . Of All Chemists and Stores. Box of 35, 2s. 6d., and post free from WILCOX & CO. , 83, Mortimer Street, Great Portland Street , W., London. I thought you might enjoy this advertisement courtesy of the Daily Graphic, Friday, December 11, 1896. The title of the paper is adorned with wee flying naked babies in a gossip chain carrying messages from one whispering woman, classicly clad with the gown quite fallen off one shoulder to another woman who seems to be writing down on a scroll what she hears. Which could be false advertising? Unintent ionally, I am sure, by Wilcox and Co. There is another lovely picture of a classic woman sitting on a wall, one foot up on the wall, but her gown hangs down draping over her beautifully (though her entire leg is well outlined by the fabric) and one bare foot on the ground- the women are all barefoot- under the heading "The Weather". Un...