About as edgy as a satsuma. Likes meeting in secret beneath the stars with a decent mask and a good moustache.
In possession of butt buddies.
Has a Homestuck blog.
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Nightfall on the Thames (1880), Oil on board | artwork by John Atkinson Grimshaw
rifa:
The Hen-Pecked Club’s Peace Box, a “patent cure for a cross wife”. The Hen-Pecked club was an organisation which encouraged men to do more household tasks to take some of the pressure off their wives. The ‘Peace Box’, also known as ‘the wife tamer’, was invented by a club member called Harry Tap in 1862. If a wife was nagging her husband too much, the husband could put her inside the box, which could be rocked like a child’s cot in order to send the wife to sleep. While she was sleeping the husband would perform all the chores then release his wife who would hopefully have calmed down.
to their credit, they do try to do more household tasks
but they kinda fuck it up entirely with this wife coffin here
I cant stop laughing
Imagine a victorian wife following around her husband like “YOU SHOULD HELP ME WITH THIS LAUNDRY AND THE SWEEPING AND THE MENDING AND THE WASHING AND THE BREAD BAKING AND THE-” and he just turns around, picks her up, carries her to the MASSIVE rocking bed he has in a back room or some shit, lies her freaking-out ass down on it, and then rocks it like
“SSSSHHHOOOOOOOOOSSSSSHHH MILDRED SSSHSHHOOOOSHSHSHSHSHHHH”
ARE YOU SERIOUS OH MY GOD THE VISUAL THOUGH. The wife is like “HARRY WHAT THE HELL IS THIS YOU SPENT YOUR FREE TIME MAKING A GIANT ROCKING BED INSTEAD OF MOPPING FLOORS I HATE YOU”
In the 19th Century having a photograph taken was a lengthy process. Frustrated by the difficulties of getting children to sit still long enough to snap a proper photo , photographers in the 1800’s conceived of a technique called “The Hidden Mother”. Draping a sheet over the mothers head in an attempt to camouflage her as a part of the furniture to better emphasize the child, the mother was then able to hold her infant and keep them still long enough for the camera to get an exposure. Vintage photographs already have a eerie feel to them, but these images of moms as cloaked phantoms take the creep factor to the next level.
The hush of night
Myles Birket Foster, from Country life, collective work, London, New York, 1873.
(Source: archive.org)
Portrait of John Singer Sargent (ca. 1890) by Giovanni Boldini
My dear Sir
Art is useless because its aim is simply to create a mood. It is not meant to instruct, or to influence action in any way. It is superbly sterile, and the note of its pleasure is sterility. If the contemplation of a work of art is followed by activity of any kind, the work is either of a very second-rate order, or the spectator has failed to realise the complete artistic impression.
A work of art is useless as a flower is useless. A flower blossoms for its own joy. We gain a moment of joy by looking at it. That is all that is to be said about our relations to flowers. Of course man may sell the flower, and so make it useful to him, but this has nothing to do with the flower. It is not part of its essence. It is accidental. It is a misuse. All this is I fear very obscure. But the subject is a long one.
Truly yours,
Oscar Wilde
~ The Housekeeper’s Friend, 1879
via Internet Archive
“…affording great relief and comfort to the many who find ordinary Corsets oppressive.”
~ H.O’Neill & Co., Spring and Summer 1898
via internet archive
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Women in mourning, 19th century
19th century Wardian Case
The Wardian case was an early type of sealed protective container for plants, which found great use in the 19th Century in protecting foreign plants imported to Europe from overseas, the great majority of which had previously died from exposure during long sea journeys, frustrating the many scientific and amateur botanists of the time. The Wardian case was the direct forerunner of the modern terrarium (and the inspiration for the glass aquarium), and was invented by Dr. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (1791–1868), of London, in about 1829 after an accidental discovery inspired him.
