Talks with homely girls on health and beauty
Subtitle: their preservation and cultivation
By: by Frances Smith
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Publisher: A.L. Burt
Published: 1885
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Women; Health and hygiene; Personal Beauty; Etiquette
Description: "A manual of advice and instruction upon the general care of the health, exercise, bathing, the care of the head and hair, the teeth, the hands, the feet, and the complexion; with chapters upon dress, manner, conversation, and all topics pertaining to a young lady's appearance and deportment."
Notes: Publisher's advertisements precede (flyleaf verso)--and follow text (4 p.).

Reproduction of the original from the Ida Rust MacPherson Collection, Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College.