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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Woman as Decoration, by Emily Burbank This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Woman as Decoration Author: Emily Burbank Release Date: July 23, 2006 [eBook #18901] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WOMAN AS DECORATION*** E-text prepared by Audrey Longhurst, Cori Samuel, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) from page images generously made available by Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University (http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 18901-h.htm or 18901-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/9/0/18901/18901-h/18901-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/9/0/18901/18901-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through the Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University. See http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=hearth;idno=4221758 WOMAN AS DECORATION by EMILY BURBANK Illustrated [Illustration] New York Dodd, Mead and Company 1917 Copyright, 1917 By Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc. DEDICATED TO V. B. G. PLATE I Madame Geraldine Farrar as Thais in the opera of that name. It is a sketch made from life for this book. Observe the gilded wig and richly embroidered gown. They are after descriptions of a costume worn by the real Thais. It is a Greek type of costume but not the familiar classic Greek of sculptured story. Thais was a reigning beauty and acted in the theatre of Alexandria in the early Christian era. [Illustration: _Sketched for "Woman as Decoration" by Thelma Cudlipp Mme. Geraldine Farrar in Greek Costume as Thais_] FOREWORD WOMAN AS DECORATION is intended as a sequel to _The Art of Interior Decoration_ (Grace Wood and Emily Burbank). Having assisted in setting
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