Vintage Funnies!
I've just come across this wonderful archive of old newspaper and magazine ads and articles, and it's full of great stuff.
The following piece of advice from 1891 had me chuckling, and would look great on a t-shirt (particularly if worn by a long-haired gentleman):
It is conceded that artists and musicians may wear their hair long if they choose, but it is imperative upon all other gentlemen to cut their hair short. Long hair on a man not of the privileged class above named will indicate him to the observer as a person of unbalanced mind and unpleasantly erratic character - a man, in brief, who seeks to impress others with the fact that he is eccentric, something which a really eccentric person never attempts.
There's some medical advice too, from 1615:
For Frenzy or inflammation of the cauls of the brain, you shall cause the juice of beets to be squirted by a syringe into the patient's nostrils, which will purge and cleanse his head exceedingly; and then give him to drink posset ale in which violet leaf and lettuce hath been boiled, and it will suddenly bring him to a very temperate mildness, and make the passion of frenzy forsake him.
The following piece of advice from 1891 had me chuckling, and would look great on a t-shirt (particularly if worn by a long-haired gentleman):
It is conceded that artists and musicians may wear their hair long if they choose, but it is imperative upon all other gentlemen to cut their hair short. Long hair on a man not of the privileged class above named will indicate him to the observer as a person of unbalanced mind and unpleasantly erratic character - a man, in brief, who seeks to impress others with the fact that he is eccentric, something which a really eccentric person never attempts.
There's some medical advice too, from 1615:
For Frenzy or inflammation of the cauls of the brain, you shall cause the juice of beets to be squirted by a syringe into the patient's nostrils, which will purge and cleanse his head exceedingly; and then give him to drink posset ale in which violet leaf and lettuce hath been boiled, and it will suddenly bring him to a very temperate mildness, and make the passion of frenzy forsake him.