You and your dead eyes.

[gildedcentury.livejournal.com]

"With 'Lysol' in your cleaning water you can kill the saboteurs in the sink...foil that Trojan Horse, the garbage pail...rout the Fifth Columnist in the bathroom. Repel those invisible Parachute Troops of disease that descend on floors, walls, and dark, damp, neglected spots throughout your household."

Comments

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

Yes, little lady, it's your job to keep a pristine house while the menfolk are away doing important stuff!

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

"dark, damp, neglected spots"

Hey, weren't women were still douching with this stuff back then?

[kimmy-kun.livejournal.com]

LOL. That was my first thought.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

The first time I saw an ad for that on here I was thinking "Huh, I didn't know Lysol made douches. I wonder what was in them? ... Oh no."

Also I don't think you get great ad copy like "rout the Fifth Columnist in the bathroom" anymore.

[baron154.livejournal.com]

Maybe that was a subliminal point. "War is imminent, don't get pregnant because we're going to need your husband for a few years."

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Good point. If hubby is off fighting the war, it's going to be harder to pass the milkman's offspring off as his.

[cuddyclothes.livejournal.com]

Heil Housekeeping!

Now get down and give me fifty!

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

Oh God. I'm sooo allergic to that stuff. Just the thought of it makes me feel sick!

[auntie-lovie.livejournal.com]

Is it too late to a joke about the Fifth Columnist in the bathroom and bran muffins?

[basking-lizard.livejournal.com]

haha, I totally thought your text at the bottom was a joke until I looked at the ad copy.

[thebazu.livejournal.com]

can it be said enough? F you, Lysol!

[vp19.livejournal.com]

Interesting to see this was from a magazine of August 1941, a few months before Pearl Harbor. I sense many of us knew the U.S. would soon enter the conflict in one manner or another.

[baron154.livejournal.com]

Europe was already aflame, WWII was already raging over there. It was definitely only a matter of time and everyone knew it. But I like how you think, if you get my drift, sister.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Ayn Rand definitely looked better in the 40s.