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Beauty of form and grace of vesture (1892)

Steele, Frances Mary, Adams, Elizabeth Livingston Steele · New York : Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 42

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s. By every healthful means attain or simulate idealfirmness. I am too busy to think You must, you do. Sliallabout clothes. your thought be intelli- gent? I am too fat. Reduce and conceal it ; do not force it upon publicnotice in a conventionalgown. 1 am too thin. Learn the contours of an ideal… … Fig. lo. — Winged Victory. CHAPTER III. PLAIN WORDS TO PLAIN PEOPLE. Do you say, my plainfriend, that you have nobeauty to begin with, andnever can have? Do youfail to discern in yourself oneredeeming feature in generaluncomeliness? Perhaps youhave not learned to recog-nize your own graces.…

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