Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 586
the charm of beauty itself inclaiming the attention of the organs of sight, we are inclined to lookwith amity on the enormous chignon itself, for, at least, it lends afurnished look, compared with the mean and pitiful spectacle thatis before us. False hair, frizettes, anything rather than that… … WHALEBONE BRUSH. say. If it is, it is also acting a lie to wear a wig, yet these sternmonitors find no fault with those whose heads having been shaved in ill-ness, wear a wig till their own chevelure grows again. Yet one is nogreater deception than the other. In fact it is less, for when…
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