September 2010
A Personal Update + Two Important Announcements
Hello, my lovely followers! Please pardon the recent lack of updates. My fall semester classes started last week. I have been busy studying and completing assignments.I hope everyone is positively dandy and well, and, if you have started your fall semester yet, off to a promising academic year. As you may have noticed, Historiful is sporting a new, chic look featuring the lovely Bette Davis...
August 2010
“Cinderella believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing...”
– Walt Disney (1901-1966), on Cinderella, 1949.
Vintage Advice: Ladies, Cherish Your Guy Friends
“Why is it important for a girl to know boys and have the friendship of boys? In order to get taken to parties, and have plenty of dates and dance partners?
Those things may seem essential, but having boy friends should mean more than that. It is good for a girl to know boys and to learn to get along with them, because later she will need to know how to get along with men, whether her...
If your Prince Charming could be an Old Hollywood...
“This is the story of one of those pretty creatures who lived on the quicksands...”
– Excerpt from George Cukor’s film, “Camille,” starring actress Greta Garbo (1905-1990) and Robert Taylor (1911-1969), 1936.
“Mary Pickford, doll divine…like that special thing Botticelli painted in...”
– Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
If you could attend a sleepover with any five Old...
Vintage Advice: What Makes a Good Housewife?
“Never let your husband have cause to complain that you are more agreeable abroad than at home; nor permit him to see in you an object of admiration as respects your dress and manners, when in company, while you are negligent of both in the domestic circle. Many an unhappy marriage has been occasioned by neglect in these particulars…”
“Nothing can be more senseless than...
Off topic: I have such an amazing boyfriend. He...
Vintage Advice: The Art of Daintiness
“There is a feminine charm which goes beyond mere cleanliness. It is daintiness. Or, if you prefer, femininity…
A buxom lass in overalls, with a mannish haircut, rolling a cigarette and handling sacks of fertilizer may be scrupulously scrubbed and as clean as a freshly bathed infant. But is she dainty? Is she “feminine”? Definitely not. Why? Because she does not appear...
“No romance has ever unfolded on the silver screen, no fantastic tale from the...”
– Nathanael West (1903-1940)
How to Host a Victorian Afternoon Tea
“Afternoon tea is a wonderful ritual that brings beauty and grace into the life of your family and friends. There is something uniquely gracious about the etiquette and manners we bring to afternoon tea that recaptures the romance of past ages. Henry James wrote, “There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as an afternoon tea.”...
Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? A 1930's...
“Young people usually are ignorant of the essential difference between the sex instincts in men and in women. Young people think the sex instinct is the same in all people, that it differs only in intensity. Psychologists, on the other hand, say there are two factors in the sex urge: (1) the psychic factor, the craving of the soul for companionship, understanding, and sympathetic love; (2)...
“I think my mother scared me when I was 3 months old. You see, she said...”
– Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
Edwardian Advice: Ladies, Choose Your Men Wisely
“In choosing their partners for life, people should be as careful as in choosing their ancestors. To give advice in this matter, however, is a very delicate task to undertake…
1. A woman should avoid accepting a man who has been particularly successful with women. At the same time, she should look for one to whom woman is not an enigma, and who is a man of the world and of strong...
vorleben asked: Thank heavens for your Tumblr! I am in love it! :)
An Anniversary of Sorts: Lizzie Borden Took An...
“Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks. And when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one…”
“The legend of Lizzie Borden began on the morning of August 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. On that day, it was later charged in court, Lizzie Borden quietly slipped into a second-floor guest bedroom where her stepmother was...
Thank You for the Birthday Wishes + Accident...
Hi everyone. First of all, thank you all for your birthday wishes. I appreciate every single one of them. You are all such sweet people. For the most part, I had a good birthday. I spent the morning and early afternoon with a friend in LA.
Unfortunately, I was in a car accident on my way home from a friend’s house this afternoon. I was on a freeway during rush hour, and after the car in...
I'm twenty-years-old today. Oh my goodness!
“I’d rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have...”
– Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000)
A Personal Update: Almost 20, Stress Relief, Road...
Hello, my dear followers! I realize that I hardly ever write about my personal life, so I would love to give you all an insight into what I’m currently doing at the moment, how my life is, and the like.
My twentieth birthday is quickly approaching. I will be twenty as of the third of August! My last few days of being nineteen have been bittersweet. I feel like I’m leaving a part of...
