odds and ends

I have all these bits and pieces I would like to do something with but can't think what - and can't justify keeping.

1. An ad for a shampoo available only at Watsons.:

Money Back Guarantee
FULL BODY
100%
[insert - what looks rather like arabic characters]
VEGETABLE SHAMPOO (tm)
NON-POISONOUS SHAMPOO
CONTENTS: Vegetables & Table Salt
COLOUR: Chocolate
GOOD FOR: HEALTH, BLOOD CIRCULATION, HAIR & SKIN
BURN OFF EXCESS FAT
DAILY USE: -EXTERNAL ONLY-
Most Sickness Gone

Inventor: Sen. Professor Dr. Sir Zeng Guoyan

[On the back of the ad]
Three pictures each of two men detailing the stages of hair regrowth and two picture of a woman in a blue dress who appears to have lost - weight? After Using: Less 8cm [from the shoulder], Less 9cm [from the bust]; Less 6cm [from the hip].

2. A photocopy of Thurber's letter to E. B. White on 20 January 1938, which begins, "I agree, as usual, with all your sound conclusions about things except the one about not being able to escape from beaten states by merely taking a boat and watching somebody balance a 20-gallon water jar on her head. That is, it seems to me, the only way to escape from such things..."