taken-in-vain

Updated: June 11, 2025

Y-e-s; but then only think of the flowers that crown the work, and you might spend an equal amount of time in pricking cloth with a steel splinter and embroidering something, in the often taken-in-vain name of decorative art, that in the end is only an elaborated rag without even the bone and the hank of hair! Woodridge, September 10.

Mabel Osgood Wright - The Garden, You, and I