Social Dynamite, 1889 style.

Sideburns are not wicked?

This eBay auction popped up in my Google alerts today, and I found it hilarious.

It’s a book with the full title Social Dynamite, or the Wickedness of Modern Society (ha!) By a guy named T. deWitt Talmage.

Apparently he’s an evangelical who clearly deplores the “wickedness” of” modern society” (both of which are still around today in 2008, some would say).

Here’s some “sermon” samplings for you: Two Highways, Evil Companions, Dark Deeds, The Babylonian Feast, High License, Intemperance, Mormonism, Divorce, Profanity, Drunkenness, and The Social Evil, Gambling, Suicide, Immoral Literature, Foes of Society, The Theater, Right and Wrong Amusements, Dancing, Fashion’s Follies, Clubs, Watering Places.

Damn! And there’s seriously like 500-plus pages of that crap.

It’s enough to make ME say Good Lord.

But check out that awesome lettering on the cover! They don’t make em like that anymore.

Kickass 1889 logo text lettering.