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February 2, 1902

 

This article from the New York Times, February 2, 1902 is a charming vignette, which allows us a glimpse into Victorian taste and how much it has (or has not) changed:


"A Brooklyn woman is fitting up her sleeping room with two of her fads for decoration, cats and pansies. She has the walls of the room covered with pictures of both and felines of all breeds..., and even some as low in the scheme of art as chocolate cats are to be found. Now the woman's friends are promising themselves great fun in deluging her with all manner of pottery cats and there are a sufficient number of grotesque specimens in the market to make her room a horrible nightmare if she stands by her purposes of keeping all the felines in the house in it."

Well I said charming, I did not say well-written.

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