Tag: Gold

• QUOTE: “The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!” Henry Ward Beecher

  Adrienne Morris

  November 22, 2016

  Art, Quotes

  child, Gold, gratitude, happy thanksgiving, Henry Ward Beecher, red sash, saint bernard dog

• QUOTE: And whether consciously or not, you must be in many a heart enthroned: queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond, which bows itself, and will forever bow, before the myrtle crown, and the stainless scepter of womanhood. –John Ruskin.

  Adrienne Morris

  November 12, 2016

  Art, inspirational

  cult of womanhood, Culture, Fashion, Gold, Opinion, spinet piano, womanhood

• Artist: Eastman Johnson

  Just wanted to see this again . . . enjoy daylight savings. THE HISTORY OF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME

  Adrienne Morris

  March 11, 2016

  19th Century Art, Art, Uncategorized

  19th century hats, Art, Beauty, daylight savings, Eastman Johnson, Fashion, Gold, immigrants

• Is Alimony Fair? Anti-Silver Cartoon

  “FREE SILVER IN CHICAGO. Divorcee–Allow me to thank you, judge, for this decree, but I notice you allow me only $10 a week alimony. That will purchase only as much as $5 would on the old basis and I’m afraid I can hardly meet my expenses. Judge–I’m very sorry, madam, but as your late husband’s […]

  Adrienne Morris

  March 21, 2014

  Beautiful Images, Women

  Alimony, Alimony Payments, Cartoons, Culture, Divorce, Fashion, Gold, Humor, Love, sex, Silver

• Books I’ve Known And Loved

  My favorite catty man moment when a cavalryman, Benteen is a no-show for a visit: “I guess he did not care to trouble himself- He is a true Cavalryman & would rather superintend the work of his stallion than attend to the courtesies of life– Nothing lost to anybody–but one feels degraded to think that […]

  Adrienne Morris

  December 19, 2013

  Books I’ve Known and Loved, History, The Unknowable Past, Uncategorized

  19th century, Books, Custer, Dodge, Gold, Gold Rush, Journals, Manhood, military, Surveys, United States History, Writers, Writing