"Vintage theater art-'A Female Drummer" ポスター

In this 1898 vintage Musical Comedy Farce stage play, "A Female Drummer ," (drummer in this sense means a male salesperson, from the practice of peddlers banging a drum to alert housewives they were approaching their door) scandalized the overly sensitive bourgeois community of late the 1800's by becoming the first female drummer. (Drummer in this sense began to fade from usage in the 1920s as "salesman" and its derivatives entered common use)