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Want to be a New Woman?

You too! can be a New Woman.

Who knew it was this easy?

And just think of the savings on the tonic and limes.

Daily Herald Adelaide. 27th October 1921

BDC gin pills tin label. Made by the National Drug & Chemical Co. Ltd of Canada. Bilingual instruction on the bottom of the tin. (Thank goodness for that!)

Josie Holford

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  • Sounds like just the thing female Trump supporters need to get rid of the waste matter they've been swallowing and retaining from the Humbug-in-Chief.

    • Eliza, Gor blimey!
      And this one "To My Mother" via George Barker

      Gin and chicken helpless in her Irish hand,
      Irresistible as Rabelais but most tender for
      The lame dogs and hurt birds that surround her,—
      She is a procession no one can follow after
      But be like a little dog following a brass band.

    • Seems a simpler way than going through all that independent, getting a job, modern living palaver. Take a pill. Et voila! New woman.

        • There was a health fad just a few decades back that some swore by. Sultanas soaked in gin and allowed to dry. Nine a day for the prevention of arthritis. Or some such.

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