Success Regrets Sphinx Advice from Inanimate Objects
A playful list of personified items dispense oddly practical maxims on success. The sphinx asks about success while a sequence of objects offers pushy, ironic counsel such as push the button, keep cool, stay sharp, and find your suited work. The piece reads as a quirky moralizing vignette.
To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Brom Quinie
An old advertisement promises a fast cold remedy with laxative brom quinine tablets. It notes E W GROVE’S signature on each box and claims to stop cough and headache and relieve the cold.
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