ABSTRACT
The toilet roll lay four years in the future. To the 1870s also belonged the appearance of chewing-gum, jeans and milk chocolate. The men and women of 1867 were without all these everyday articles which ease our path through life in the twentieth century. They would have to wait 19 years for Coca-Cola, 26 for breakfast cereals and 30 years for arguably the greatest of all medicines: the humble aspirin. Milk bottles, bras and soap powder would not offer their welcome presence until the early years of the present century. It was a world, in various important aspects, very different from our own.
