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Title: Godey's lady's book
Year: 1840 (1840s)
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Subjects: Women American literature Costume Arts
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : L.A. Godey
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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* « • » » WAISTBAND, BACK AND FRONT VIEW. TO BE MADE OF SILK, AND WORN WITH BOTH THICK AND THIN DRESSES. DIAGRAM OF HALF OF THE WAISTBAND, SHOWING HOW IT IS ARRANGED AT THE BACK.
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RECEIPTS. 191 Jitnipts, $£. GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF THE SKIN, ETC. BATHING. In a state of nature, man accustoms himself to aplunge in the nearest pool or sea, and no doubt withgreat advantage to his health. Almost all animals aresubject to the natural washing of the rains of heaven;and to a certain extent the savage has this compulsorymeans of cleansing his skin. But in our civilized stateof society it is rarely that we get even damped by rain,and even a good and healthy perspiration is to somepeople a not very common mode of getting rid of thesuperfluous scarf-skin. It becomes, therefore, doublynecessary that we should in some way supply this wantof the system, and the best means of doing this mustnow be examined into. The skin is not only an investment of the body, me-chanically packing up its organs, and protecting themfrom injury by its smooth and yielding surface, and byits constantly supplied layer of dead scarf-skin ; but itis also the seat of an excretory apparatus of no meanim

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