Reblog if you perplex and offend more, day by day, or if you are perplexed and offended more, day by day.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

Reblog if you, too, study the sunlit pattern on the floor.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

Reblog if you, too, bear the heavy burden of a growing soul.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

Reblog if you, too, leave disordered papers in a dusty room.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

Reblog if you, too, fear the warm reality, the offered good.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

Reblog if you, too, are rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

Reblog if you, too, are unable to fare forward or retreat.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook. 

Reblog if you, too, are shadow of your own shadows, spectre in your own gloom.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

Reblog if you, too, are behind the Encyclopedia Brittanica.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

Reblog if you, too, are the pain of living and the drug of dreams.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1971 yearbook.

Many, but crucially not all girls are less attractive when thet twist their feet awkwardly.  From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.

"Beautiful, gloriously beautiful in her strange, weird, dark beauty."  From A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne, 1909.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the untinted photo.

From Mocca, 1933.

From Mocca, 1934.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to apply makeup.

"Gathering wrath and holy indignation," from Annals of the Parish and the Ayrshire Legatees by John Galt and illustrated by C. E. Brock, 1895.