Godey's lady's book 1861 Jan -June; Jul - Dec (1861)
Hale, Sarah Josepha, 1788 - 1879, Godey, Louis Antoine, 1804 - 1878 (eds.) · Philadelphia: Louis A. Godey · leaf 129
sfigure themselves by a blind compliance withthe fashion of the day was never more strikinglydisplayed than in the custom of dotting the facewith black patches of different patterns. Itmight easily be supposed that the annexedsketch is a caricature, but such is not the case ;it is a correct… … came originally from Arabia. No sooner wasit brouglit to England and France than it be-came an absolute fureur. In the former coun-try, old and young, the maiden of sixteen andthe gray-haired grandmamma, covered theirfaces with these black spots shaped like suns,moons, stars, hearts, crosses, and…
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