SCRATCH YOUR BACK FOR 9D
CHINESE BRING NEW TOILET FAD “Back-scratching has arrived in Sydney. It is being practised even outside political circles. Nor is this the back scratching of undue compliments. It is a serious business brought into vogue by the Chinese shopkeepers, who are reaping a harvest by their exploitation of the back-scratching market. They are selling back-scratchers at 9d. each, and at the rate of many hundreds a year. With a desire to be original, Sydney’s womenfolk are equipping their boudoirs with this latest additional toilet accessory. The very fact that you can scratch your own back with a back-scratcher for 9d is in itself an irresistible pleasure. Imported from China, these backscratchers are simplicty itself. Just the bent fingers of the human hand carved in bamboo at the end of a bamboo cane. The dames of olden times insisted on ivory, but Sydney is banking on its bamboo
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 303, 14 March 1928, Page 5
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152SCRATCH YOUR BACK FOR 9D Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 303, 14 March 1928, Page 5
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