FIPS DAILY ALMANAC: Tuesday, April 10, 2012
J. Charles | Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 12:00AM 
photo entitled "Ch Ch Changes" by Park Slope Lens
Rise and shine FIPSters, and welcome to your day! In weather news, since I am morbidly addicted to extreme weather, let's take a look at some extreme weather pics of the week. And in celeb goss, thank the good Lord that Alec Baldwin's stalker has been caught. I didn't even know ABal had a stalker.
ON THIS DAY IN BK HISTORY (1895):
As part of my ongoing month of old time Brooklyn retail therapy coverage, here's an ad from the April 10, 1895 edition of the Brooklyn Eagle. It is titled "An Attractive Woman" and begins with, "If a woman is not attractive, there is something wrong." It's pretty safe to say that this ad is the sum total of all female self-esteem issues. "Half of the women one meets are semi-invalids," it continues. "Carelessness and ignorance and neglect have made it so." This is bad, but let us find one more nugget in the article to really make the ladies feel like shit...
"These things bring about sunken, circled eyes, the hollow cheeks, the pale and sallow skin, the flabby strengthless flesh which characterize the appearance of the woman who suffers from 'female weakness'."
Damn, who was the late 19th century Mad Men dick who thought up this ad campaign?
But ladies, don't worry -- the answer to all your feminine woes lies in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. And that's basically all the ad says to describe this mystery product that allegedly makes women not gross. It also comes with a coupon for a free "treatise of 168 pages" about a woman's particular ailments (which sounds like a blast).
And if you just don't care about being attractive, just fuck it and get some shoes from Burt's for Easter.
[READ THE FULL RIDICULOUS AD FROM THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE ARCHIVES]
ON THIS DAY IN FIPS'TORY:
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