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Isabella Stuart Gardner has long been a role model of mine, although i prefer tea to beer. I have yet to sport the gold and diamond antennae, but there is time… 

mrs. jack

the above image by john singer sargent is a portrait of boston’s grande dame isabella stewart gardner, here is another:

Mrs. Gardner didn’t drink tea; she drank beer… She didn’t go sleigh-riding; instead, she went walking down Tremont Street with a lion named Rex on a leash.

She gave at-homes at her Beacon Street house and received her guests from a perch in the lower branches of a mimosa tree. Told that “everybody in Boston” was either a Unitarian or an Episcopalian, she became a Buddhist; then when the pleasure of that shock had worn off she became such a High-Church Episcoplaian that her religion differed from Catholicism only in respect to allegiance to the Pope.

Advised that the best people Boston belonged to clubs, she formed one of her own named the “It” Club…Warned that a woman’s social position in Boston might be judged in inverse ratio to her appearance…she picked out her two largest diamonds, had them set on gold wire springs and wore them waving some six inches above her hair like the antennae of a butterfly.

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from: the proper bostonians by cleveland amory (1947).

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If your government shuts down the internet, shut down your government. #egypt

i love how guy fawkes lives on!

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Cyclists Arrested In Critical Mass Get $1 Million From City

Life-Altering Soap of the Day: Ji Woong Kim’s “Frugal Soap” is one of those brilliant concepts that is so simple and straightforward that you wonder what sort of hold Big Soap has on society that no one had the wherewithal to come up with it sooner.

Once the soap bar wears down to the appropriate size, insert the remainder into the concave top of the next bar, fusing the two, and saving yourself the hassle of having to soap up with an uncomfortably small nub.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

[yanko.]

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