Sunday, October 17, 2021
Wish You Were Here, from Rudolph Dirks
Here's one of those freebie cards published in the Hearst papers. This series, from 1906, offers kids all the fun of burning the house down to reveal the hidden figure. Go ahead kids, climb up to that gas jet on the wall! It's perfectly safe! Oh,you have electric lighting? Well, just go ahead and find the matches wherever mommy hides them. Notice how they say "Safety Matches" right on them -- no worries there. Mommy and daddy will never know you used them.
Labels: Wish You Were Here
Comments:
It does seem a bit irresponsible to urge the tykes to mess with a flat iron, gass jet or matches, with no more cautious advice than "Don't Burn it" (!)
I have another of these cards, another Katzie one, in fact, and the edges are actually singed!
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I have another of these cards, another Katzie one, in fact, and the edges are actually singed!
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: 10/17/2021 3:16 PM
: 10/17/2021 3:16 PM 