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Author Dean, Teresa H

Title How to be beautiful : nature unmasked : a book for every woman / by Teresa H. Dean
Published Melbourne : J.E. Mitchell & Co., 1890

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 ADPML SPC  646.7042 Dea/Htb  LIB USE ONLY
Description 90 pages, <1> leaf of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Contents 1. Beauty -- 2. Bathing -- 3. Exercise -- 4. Cycling -- 5. Wrinkles -- 6. Eyes -- 7. Hands -- 8. Beautiful forms -- 9. Corsets -- 10. Shoes -- 11. Agreeable manners -- 12. The "grande" air -- Annex. Recipes and formulas
Summary Contains information about the necessity and comfort of corsets, how to lose weight by drinking claret instead of water, the benefits of regular hot and cold bathing, and the unfotunate stomach-enlarging effects of diaphragmatic breathing. Also contains recipes for various skin improving lotions
Notes Ferguson no. F9039
Printed red cloth
Subject Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects.
Beauty, Personal -- Australia -- History.
Beauty, Personal.
Fashion -- Social aspects.