Beautiful Art Nouveau detailing on the table of contents.
Ladies sporting fur scarves and stoles.
Sears & Roebuck Co. sewing machine in cabinet - if only they were $5 now!
Advertisement to send in your hair, then receive a real hair piece that matches your own.
A time when anything could be ordered from a catalog.
About tapeworms - during the late Victorian and Edwardian era there was a rumor that women used tapeworms to lose weight, taken in 'tapeworm pills' which housed the worm's eggs. Once the weight was lost, the woman would want to shed her tapeworm, since there are nasty side effects to having one living in the body. I have found no conclusive evidence to this diet trend, but I couldn't help but be reminded of it when seeing these advertisements to remove tapeworms.
I thought there was some irony to the juxtaposition of these two advertisements. (note the name Kellogg - not the same Kellogg of cereal fame it seems)
Copyrighted October, 1901,
By the Lewis Publishing Co.,
St. Louis, MO.
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