What literature will do to you. I found it on the pinterest board Ludicrous Vintage Ads, which are a lot of fun when they aren't completely enraging.
Update! Here is some more information about it, from the Library of Congress. This image seems to be a variation of an illustration from a book called Social Purity
Here is the original (?) image with the central text still intact, which reveals that the girl is reading the novel Sapho.
Some of my legions of readers may remember the wallpaper on the walls of my childhood bedroom. And by some of you I mean my mom, my brother, and my oldest friend from childhood, Sara. And by legions of readers, I mean those three, although Sara doesn't get online much, and maybe two or three others.
I've framed a scrap of that wallpaper and it's there on that shelf by Vivi's bed. Do you see Vivi's sheets? The pattern is very similar -- I found them for a song at a store in town that was going out of business. And that's the quilt from my childhood bedroom. You can see that I am reliving my own childhood through my daughter's bedroom decor, whether she likes it or not.
And now I've started dressing her in the pattern, poor thing.
You can get a good view of the dress from all angles in this impromptu performance. If you can't stand the song about how she is a pink-red rose, fast forward to the rear view, which happens around 34 seconds.
And thus endeth the "let's forcefully relive our own childhoods through our children" post of the day. (It's nice that so far, she still cooperates.)
Last weekend, we took the kids to the Crystal Palace in Moncton, New Brunswick, along with a couple of other families. That's Luke in the back, his friend Jack in the front, and Jack's mom Krista. Krista is brave. This is what that swing thing looks like from the ground.
I went on the merry-go-round with Sylvie and felt like throwing up.
