Alaina Urquhart

Like glass rods, sharpened sticks, even like metal needles.

Always more advanced.

Yeah.

And it didn't ever cross the girl's mind that putting the brush covered in radioactive material in their mouths could be dangerous.

Because while the dial workers were hard at work in the factory, wealthy and elite people all over the nation were saying how radium is the greatest discovery in the ages.

Like they used it in glassware and lingerie and toothpastes everywhere.

Miracle cures were being made with it.

Like, it was being touted as, like, the fucking cure-all.

Like, this is going to be the thing that changes everything.

So why the fuck wouldn't you think?

It's in toothpaste.

Why can't it be in my mouth?

Why?

Yeah.

One product actually marketed to men at this time was a tonic that they said restored vitality to the elderly, making old men young.

I don't know about that, baby.

So if you can drink it as a tonic.

Oh, my God.

Of course you can quickly put a fucking brush that's been dipped in it on your lips for a second.

Why wouldn't you?