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Title: Woman as Decoration

Author: Emily Burbank

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Language: English

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WOMAN AS DECORATION

by

EMILY BURBANK

Illustrated

[Illustration]

New York Dodd, Mead and Company 1917
Copyright, 1917
By Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.

DEDICATED
TO
V. B. G.

PLATE I

Madame Geraldine Farrar as Thais in the opera of that name.
It is a sketch made from life for this book. Observe the
gilded wig and richly embroidered gown. They are after
descriptions of a costume worn by the real Thais. It is a
Greek type of costume but not the familiar classic Greek of
sculptured story. Thais was a reigning beauty and acted in
the theatre of Alexandria in the early Christian era.

[Illustration: _Sketched for "Woman as Decoration" by Thelma Cudlipp
Mme. Geraldine Farrar in Greek Costume as Thais_]

FOREWORD

WOMAN AS DECORATION is intended as a sequel to _The Art of
Interior Decoration_ (Grace Wood and Emily Burbank).

Having assisted in setting