The Fall Down The Stairs
Clare Briggs
Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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In the kid’s defense, those stairs are not the stairs that you and I are used to. It’s not a sweet and gentle 50 degrees. It’s closer to 40 degrees. And the stairs are higher.Report
In one of my grandparents’ houses there was the front staircase that connected only the first and second floors, with its wide treads and gentle slope. Then there were the back stairs that I loved, steep and narrow and dark, that ran all the way from the basement to the attic.Report
Yeah some of those old back stairs were the next thing to ladders.Report
My wife’s uncle lives in the house his dad built around this era, and the stairs are pretty much exactly like this. (Maybe worse, as that house has a 90 degree turn at the very bottom by the door)Report
This was before everybody installed Stairs 2.0 in their homes.Report
I can never figure out why the mothers always look so old in old-timey cartoons especially because they would have given birth much younger than women today.Report
It ain’t the year, it’s the mileage. They gave birth much younger, but that lady also had 6 other children. 3 of whom didn’t see their 1st birthday.Report
People aged faster back then because life was harder. We also really didn’t know how to keep people looking younger longer like we do now.Report
Why assume it’s the mother? Could be grandma, or a spinster great-aunt, in a multi-generational home. Assuming those are servant or tradesmen stairs, could be a housekeeper.Report