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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	View a recent day: June 10 \| June 09 \| June 08 \| previous days \| by month and year Wednesday, May 16, 2007 Feminine hygiene ad, 1926, advocates douching with Lysol Cropped detail here, full ad here: Link to "The Mother Whose Children Are Happy at Home," an ad for Lysol (yes, that Lysol), in a 1926 magazine. Here's a later ad from the '40s, and this article puts the ads in context. posted by Xeni Jardin at 02:12:24 PM permalink \| Other blogs' comments View a recent day: June 10, 2007 \| June 09, 2007 \| June 08, 2007 \| June 07, 2007 \| June 06, 2007 \| June 05, 2007 \| June 04, 2007 \| previous days \| all BB archives by month and year Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email:

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