American Lithographic Co., N.Y.
“Ohhh, You Have a Pet Pir-AN-ha. LOL, I Thought You Said I-GUA-na. What? I’m Sorry — I Can’t Understand You When You’re Frantically Pointing at the Water and Shrieking Like That,” 1900
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Historical info about this company can be found here. It was founded by the same man that owned the company associated with a prior blog entry at that time. It may in fact be the same company under a different name, or two separate companies.
/// This wise harem girl does more than hope
that the sultan will choose her to grope.
She’d tried acting coquettish,
then learned feet are his fetish,
so she scrubs them with Palmolive Soap.
/// Posed in front of the fronds of a Palm,
Olive sits by the pool with aplomb.
As this century ends
selling bar soap depends
on seducing the housewives. “Salaam!”
/// To convince likely buyers to crave
the soap advertised here, Olive gave
a performance to make
people seeing this take
beauty tips from a sultan’s sex slave.
/// Olive hopes to pose for a complete set
of these ads. (Hasn’t moved from her seat yet.)
But she’s new to this gig.
May one day hit it big.
As of now, she’s just getting her feet wet.
/// Pretty Olive is no dimwit dope.
She learned skills to expand career scope.
Her adroit belly dance
in those sheer harem pants
doesn’t make males who view her think “soap.”