Bertha Palmer (May 22, 1849 – May 5, 1918) was an American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist. Her next-door neighbor was steel magnate Clayton Mark, the builder of the planned worker community named Marktown in Northwest Indiana.
Read more about Bertha Palmer: Biography, Marriage, Chicago World's Fair & The Women's Building, Art Collecting, Luxurious Mansions and Lavish Spending, Florida Real Estate Pioneer, Death
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“Reputation is not of enough value to sacrifice character for it.”
—“Miss Clark,” U.S. charity worker. As quoted in Petticoat Surgeon, ch. 9, by Bertha Van Hoosen (1947)
“It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense.... He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.”
—Vance Palmer (1885–1959)