CHRANTE
DETI The following
eleven pictures are from a series of Czechoslovakian matchboxes from the
40's or 50's with a child-safety theme. But to me they look like they are
just encouraging children to do stupid things...especially foreign kids
that don't know that 'chrante deti' means 'look out stupid children' Oddly
enough, there's no pictures of a child using matches, whether to start
fires or light mysterious cigarettes. And I ask you...Are matches the appropriate
venue to impart safety wisdom to children anyway? But more proof that the
war really messed some people up.
This one is
my favorite picture on the matchbooks...if a kid has got the guts to steal
a ladder I think he would have better things to do with it than jump into
the bailer. Did this kind of ladder/bailer accident happen alot in post
war Czechoslovakia??
