It has for some time now been the fashion to say that we are in a morass, and to attempt to get out of the morass by attacking Romanticism; and I am going to do this too.
[Iris Murdoch]

and because Old Dutch Cleanser was made by Cudahy, because the woman in clogs with her stick looks like she has no time for looking at ‘the viewer’ because she’s busy going off to whale on something, and because she has a forearm like a lumberjack, and because it says “chases dirt,” we love this tin placard.