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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead joke du jour 1883 1/2
Miss Gushington (to young widow whose husband has left her a large fortune): “That is the fourteenth mourning costume I have seen you wear in three days and each lovelier and more becoming than the other!"

@memizon Miasma....

#MrsDaffodil on a jealous husband, his cold-hearted, faithless, abominable wife, an insurance policy, and the undertaker. Hilarity ensues. https://t.co/ShshR98H15
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead 1868 widow snark:
How long does a widow mourn for her husband?
She mourns for a second.

[Robes de deuil et de demi-deuil, Heloise Suzanne Leloir, 1869 https://t.co/LC8sZIaqzd]

#MementoMoriMonday A Merry Company, [not practising social distancing] Disturbed by Death, Gesina ter Borch, c. 1660
https://t.co/iN9jHRgcPW
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#MrsDaffodil joke du jour 1880

Young swell: “Schnieder, I should like to have my mustache dyed.”
Polite barber: “Certainly, sir; did you bring it with you?”

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Heartless joke du jour 1888
Mr. Mould (the undertaker): I heard some bad news today. A man whom I’ve known for years has just died.
Mrs. Mould (smiles): That ought not to be very bad news for us, Uriah.
Mr. Mould: He was blown up by dynamite, my dear.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead 1882 widow snark 2/2.
Probably the principal change [the widow] feels from his loss is one in her income, and men have been known to designedly curtail the finances in such instances in order to insure that they should be missed in some degree.

#FolkloreThursday German Easter card with spring-flower fairy, lamb, and chicks.
https://t.co/TqpK1xfKrA

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #NationalBeerDay L. Crusius illustration "Ein Stein!" for 1899 Antikamnia patent medicine calendar. https://t.co/vDXX8qQ2I5