Day 1,623: arduous, jarring

Few teenage girls are willing to commit to the arduous education in music, dancing and etiquette on which the 18th-century geisha tradition is based.

Traditionalists find these innovations jarring.

The new geishas

Artwork of the day 
Jar Of Peaches
Claude Monet
Date: 1866
Style: Impressionism
Genre: still life

Word of the day 
arduous: difficult, needing a lot of effort and energy:
jarring: wrong or unsuitable:

Quote of the day
“To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom”
― André Gide, The Immoralist