The Frog House
Bielsko-Biała, Poland. 1903. The sculptor is unknown, the architect was either Albert Pèpe or Emanuel Rost Jr. Art Nouveau at it's best.
We could use some of this here.
Pigs with Problems
Hi Guys! Did you ever wonder what goes through a pig's head when he knows that his destiny is to be made into lard ? Well, it turns out that most pigs are up for that , at least according to N. K. Fairbank and Company ! Back in the 1880s and 1890s , Fairbank was one of the biggest producers of lard around! You're probably thinking "lard, who in heck wants that ??" Well, before they invented vegetable oil , you needed lard to cook with ! If you were going to fry anything, you had to have lard, or put in layman's terms, pig fat ! Well, pig fat and killing animals are pretty gross , no doubt! And if anybody hated gross things , it was the Victorians ! So how do you sell the idea of pig fat? You make a joke out of it , that's how! You create a whole advertising campaign out of these anthro pigs whose only desire in life is to die ! So they can be made into grease for cooking! To make it even funnier , you ...
