19-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Sunday, April 19, 1914: Was storm staid at church this afternoon. Had on a pair of new shoes and no rubbers, but managed to get home all the same.
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
Grandma—
I hope your shoes weren’t ruined. Do your feet ache from walking home with wet feet? Maybe you’d feel better if you soaked your feet in TIZ.
I wouldn’t mind some TIZ to draw out poisonous exudations.
I could use some, too. 🙂
Good one, Sheryl! 😉
Thanks!
That is a hilarious advertisement! “weary, shoe-crinkled, aching, burning, corn-pestered, bunion-tortured feet”. But if my toes were to look up at me, I’d be very…..worried!
🙂
Exudations? Let’s try to work that one into a modern-day sentence. Love the image on the ad.
I might have trouble working it into a sentence–but it sure sounds awful. 🙂
‘Storm staid’ is an expression I’ve never heard.
That expression was new to me too. I searched on the Internet and at
http://www.oldpoetry.com/Thomas_Stoddart/To_A_Storm-Staid_Bird
I found a poem entitled “To a Storm-Staid Bird.”
Thanks for finding this. I bet that Grandma was familiar with this old poem. That would explain why she used the unusual wording in her diary entry.
How about that. I will try to use it in the future. I like studying storms and can think of some storm staid situations.
Thanks.
It’s curious that the ad could spell exudation correctly but left the r out of draws a few words earlier.
The proofreader was probably so focused on getting the difficult word correct, that the easy word was missed. 🙂
You & Helena both gave me something amusing to ponder–“storm staid” and this vintage ad! I notice that the proofreaders at the Milton Evening Standard were not on the ball (“daws” instead of “draws”) but whoever wrote the copy certainly had fun. “Tiz” happens to be the nickname of my cat “Tizzy.” So–all in all, great post!
Yes, I think you’re definitely right. The ad writer had fun doing this ad. 🙂
Drawing out the poisonous exudations that cause foot torture. Can i order some for after my long run today/ 🙂
I think that I need some, too. 🙂
Need to purchase a bit of this for H. He’s had foot problems for a month now! 😉
Too bad this product didn’t last for a hundred years. 🙂
I’m laughing here because the no-nonsense graphic descriptions of what’s going on with your feet to what TIZ will do to cure them… well let’s just say I’m glad I wasn’t eating when I read it!
Diana xo
I’m glad you enjoyed it (and that you weren’t eating when you read it). 🙂
Do people still wear rubbers?
My husband still has a pair. Actually I read an article in the Wall Street Journal a few months ago about how some investment banker types still wear them (though I think they called them something like rubber overshoes).
Really a good idea, especially if you’re wearing $700.00 shoes.
It’s interesting to see how detailed every advertisement was. . 🙂
Ads generally were much wordier a hundred years ago than what they are now.
Now that is 3 advertisments in one!!! wow, so cool
It is a fun ad. 🙂
Toes wriggling with joy! Love it!
Good Grief, woman sure had foot issues back when. Sounds monstrous, LOL Shoe crinkled, burning, corn festered, bunion torture ! Them are some ugly feet. But have you seen some of the small boots they crammed them into? They look like AAAAA’s so no wonder.