For the visiting season or the seaside, The Illustrated London news (1913)
The Daily Mirror (Monday, 17th February, 1913)
(HT Airminded)
St. Bride by John McKirdy Duncan; 1913; National Galleries of Scotland (Scotland); tempera on canvas. (HT Eccentric Bliss)
Chicago’s Police Department’s first female officers, 1913
The starting salary of a policewoman in 1913 was $75 a month, and each officer was assigned an area to patrol—often a beach, park, bus terminal, railroad station, or dancehall. Their duties included protecting girls from unsavory types who might lure them into danger and arresting girls for wearing questionable swimming costumes at the local beaches.
via Chicago History Museum
"Why do people think it intelligent to say, ‘I can see no difference!’ It is nowadays quite a mark of culture to say that one can see no difference between a man and a woman, or a man and an angel, or a man and an animal. If a man cannot see the difference between a horse and a cow across a large field, we do not call him cultured; we call him short-sighted. Now, there are really interesting differences between angels and women; nay, even between men and beasts, and all such things. They are differences which most people know instinctively, as most people know a cow is not a horse without looking for its mane; or most people know a horse is not a cow without looking for horns. Whether the difference ought to count in this or that important question is a completely different matter, but it ought not really to be so difficult simply to see the difference… [T]his is a strange epoch; and while, in some ways, we have quite dangerously encouraged the appetites, we have quite ruthlessly crushed the instincts."
— G. K. Chesterton, Concerning those who “cannot see the difference” (1913)
(Source: zerogate)
Andre Edouard Marty - Paquin Evening Robe, 1913, from Gazette Du Bon Ton.
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