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A jovial book of advice about health for girls and women.
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Etiquette for women, Girls, Health and hygiene, WomenTimes
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Edition Notes
"Reprinted from the American Edition."
'"That her hand may be given ...'
Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the Seminary of Quebec, Library. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1986.
244 p. ; 17 cm.
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Introduction, Girls Boots and Shoes, How Girls Should Walk, The Language of Dress, Description of Dress, Outrages upon the Body, Woman Tortures Her Body, Stocking Supporters, Large vs. Small Women, Idleness among Girls, Idleness Is Fashionable, Work Is for the Poor, Employments for Women, False Tests of Gentility, A Short Sermon about Matrimony, Piano Music, Study of French, Dancing, The Theatre, Sympathy between the Stomach and the Soul (Bowels of Compassion--Waists of Jolly Grandmothers), About the Treatment of Disease, Sunshine and Health, A Word about Baths, Home Gymnasium, What You Should Eat, What You Should Drink, Additional Health Thoughts, Amusements for Girls, True Education for Girls, Heroic Women
Plus ca change...
Imagine men gathering at a window to admire a woman's posture and gait.
Men will shut their ears if they have a spark of delicacy, for every word of this is private and confidential.
1st. The rotary motion is injurious to the brain and spinal marrow.
2nd. The peculiar contact between the man and the woman, may suggest impure thoughts.
I have many times asked young men what they thought of it, and after saying it was jolly, that they liked it first-rate, they have generally...confessed they, knowing how men feel and sometimes talk about it, if they were women, they should not indulge.
Apparently he meant ballroom dancing as opposed to square or contra dancing.
Apparently by "round" he meant ballroom dancing, as opposed to square or contra dancing
As much as he promotes good health, he values personality more
PE and elocution
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