48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there was this doughboy.  From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.

48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there was this doughboy.  From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.

48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there was this doughboy.  From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.

48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there were these doughboys.  From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.

48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there was this doughboy.  From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.

48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there was this doughboy.  From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.

48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there were these doughboys.  From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.

48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there was this doughboy.  From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.

48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there was this doughboy.  From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.

48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there was this doughboy.  From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.

48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there was this doughboy.  From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.

48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there were these doughboys.  From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.

48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there was this doughboy.  From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.

48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there were these doughboys.  From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.

48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there was this doughboy.  From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917.