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Alma Deutscher
Alma Deutscher, 11-year-old composer, about to premiere her first full opera, "Cinderella"
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 20, 2016 -
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Category: Human Marvels, Music, Children
The Bully
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 19, 2016 -
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Category: Antisocial Activities, PSA’s, Children, Juvenile Delinquency, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #295
So that's where corporate executives come from! It's something in their breakfast cereal as kids!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 01, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Children, 1960s
Kenner Easy Care Manicure Set
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 21, 2016 -
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Category: Cosmetics, Stereotypes and Cliches, Toys, Children, 1970s
The Importance of Penmanship
Original article here.
1) Butler steals $350,000 worth of jewelry. (This was in 1937, so really worth $5,849,059.03.)
2) Mails jewels in package to a preset postal drop.
3) Scrawls address so badly, jewels delivered to innocent young girl.
4) Kerblooey.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 08, 2016 -
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Category: Stupid Criminals, Children, 1930s
8-year-old Undertaker
It sounds like Duana Grant was a very practical-minded young girl. At the age of 8, instead of being squeamish about death, she was learning how to be a mortician, in preparation for taking over the family business at the appropriate time.And it seems that her childhood ambitions became reality. When she was older she married Wilbur Elder and helped run the Grant Elder Funeral Home in Arkansas City.
In 1973, her son took over the business, and he ran it until it closed in August 1982.
Duana died in 2002, at the age of 79.
Green Bay Press-Gazette - Mar 12, 1931
She Is Learning To Be Undertaker
ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. — Death, abhorrent to most children, but to Duana Grant, 8, it awakens only sympathy and a desire to help. Born over an undertaker's parlor and associated with the business all her life, she is learning to conduct a funeral as well as any grownup. Outside business hours, Duana is just an ordinary child, with her school work, dolls, and roller skates.
ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. — Death, abhorrent to most children, but to Duana Grant, 8, it awakens only sympathy and a desire to help. Born over an undertaker's parlor and associated with the business all her life, she is learning to conduct a funeral as well as any grownup. Outside business hours, Duana is just an ordinary child, with her school work, dolls, and roller skates.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 04, 2016 -
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Category: Death, Jobs and Occupations, Children
Miss Stardust of 1948
A couple of points about this beauty queen.1) Mother was also a beauty queen, "Miss Brooklyn of 1928." Alas, I can find no pix of the elder Bayes.
2) Should a beauty queen who represents the "falsie" industry be considered for her natural endowments, or her falsie-assisted curves?
3) Note the loving care and extra attention that WU brings to all its posts, as we present the previous year's winner below, as a supplement.
Original pic here.
Original article here.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 01, 2016 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Body Modifications, Children, Parents, 1920s, 1940s
Coco Cod: Worst Flavor Mashup Ever?
Original ad here.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 21, 2016 -
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Category: Food, Advertising, Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Children, 1920s
Follies of the Madmen #286
Lots of goofy stuff here.
First commercial: who's the publisher for that special Mom propaganda book?
Second and third commercials: love that trippy 2001: A Space Odyssey sequence as we fly thru the aspirin particles.
Fourth commercial: once upon a time, hairy chests were okay.
Fifth commercial: this woman has ingested so much iron that her bare feet are comfortable on metal stirrups.
Sixth and seventh commercials: life in a circus-acrobat household.
Eighth commercial: multivitamins promote blue balls.
Ninth commercial: children are iron-vampires.
Tenth and eleventh commercials: psychedelic scrumpcheroo!
Twelfth commercial: hey, a rerun! Or is this a flashback from dropping too many Chocks?
Thirteenth and fourteenth commercials: Charley Chocks, pusherman.
Fifteenth commercial: Chocks and chopsticks!
Sixteenth commercial: And you thought the Archies were too fake!
Seventeenth commercial: interplanetary Chocks colonialism!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 18, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Drugs, Psychedelic, Children, Elderly, 1960s, 1970s
Let Children Vote
Yesterday I posted about a proposal to disenfranchise the elderly. Here's a similar idea — a scheme to reduce the political power of grey hairs — but it goes about it in a different way. Instead of taking away the vote from the elderly, you give the vote to children. Their new political power would presumably balance out the influence of seniors, shifting state policy in new directions.This idea has been repeatedly advocated by Paul E. Peterson, professor of government at Harvard. He's argued for the idea in the journal Daedalus (Fall 1992), The Brookings Review (Winter 1993), and Education Next (Jan 2011).
The way it would work, in practice: "parents exercise the vote on behalf of their children... parents be given the option to assign the right to their child whenever they think he or she is capable of casting it on their own. That right, once given, can never be taken back."
The details that remain to be worked out: "Which parent gets the vote? What is to be done with election-day newborns? What proof of parentage is required?"
Peterson was not, by any means, the first to come up with the idea of letting children vote. Philippe van Parijs gives a brief history of the children's suffrage movement in his book Just Democracy:
It has been repeatedly discussed for over a century, especially in France, and mostly with pro-natalist motivations. The earliest proposal of this sort seems to have been made, shortly after Prussia's victory over France, by a certain Henri Lasserre, 'the universally known historian of Notre-Dame de Lourdes'. In his proposal, every French citizen, whatever his or her age or gender, is given one vote, with the (male) head of each family exercising this right to vote on behalf of his wife and each of his children. The proposal was hardly noticed, however, except by the philosopher Gabriel de Tarde, who took it over enthusiastically, as a way of enforcing a concern for the interests of younger and unborn generations.
Image source: The Brookings Review (Winter 1993)
Posted By: Alex - Wed May 18, 2016 -
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Category: Politics, Reformers, Do-gooders, Agitators and SJWs, Children
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