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1904 Cosmo Magazine - What fun!
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 21716" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Martie, this isn't a replica, it's the real thing. I'm almost afraid to touch it too much for fear of it crumbling away. Actually it's in pretty good shape considering that it's 103 years old. The cover isn't attached and the edges of the pages are a little rough, but that's it. It must have been stashed away somewhere for years and years. I've seen those Sears catalogs too and they're fascinating!</p><p></p><p>It's hard for us to realize what people contended with in those days. I would imagine that there were a lot of diseases like rickets caused by malnutrition, and lack of medical care. Many of those people were immigrants or the children of immigrants, lots in the St. Louis area too - including my grandmother. Many of the ads in the magazine are for products promoted as things that would keep children healthy, soaps that they claimed would keep people from getting sick, patent medicines making all kinds of claims and mail order "cures" for every disease imaginable! Can you imagine trying to cope with a sick child back in 1904? Sad to think that people back then suffered so much from things that are so curable now! </p><p></p><p>But who would have imagined that there was ever such a product as trouser padding for bowlegged men! Pretty clever, actually.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 21716, member: 1883"] Martie, this isn't a replica, it's the real thing. I'm almost afraid to touch it too much for fear of it crumbling away. Actually it's in pretty good shape considering that it's 103 years old. The cover isn't attached and the edges of the pages are a little rough, but that's it. It must have been stashed away somewhere for years and years. I've seen those Sears catalogs too and they're fascinating! It's hard for us to realize what people contended with in those days. I would imagine that there were a lot of diseases like rickets caused by malnutrition, and lack of medical care. Many of those people were immigrants or the children of immigrants, lots in the St. Louis area too - including my grandmother. Many of the ads in the magazine are for products promoted as things that would keep children healthy, soaps that they claimed would keep people from getting sick, patent medicines making all kinds of claims and mail order "cures" for every disease imaginable! Can you imagine trying to cope with a sick child back in 1904? Sad to think that people back then suffered so much from things that are so curable now! But who would have imagined that there was ever such a product as trouser padding for bowlegged men! Pretty clever, actually. [/QUOTE]
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