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 587
straining within bounds an otherwise unmanagable luxuri-ance of thickness, not necessarily length. The raison detre of plaitsis the same, and it is, therefore, inconsistent to plait scanty hair. Itshould be simply rolled and twisted and kept in order by manyhair-pins. Three kinds of plait are… … HAND GLASS. Talks on the Toilet. 539 size ; place one in the centre ; take the left-hand strand, and lift it under the centreone, and over it, and back to its place ; work on thus alternately to the end. Grecian Plait.—Take a tolerably thick lock of hair, divide it into two equal parts ;take from…
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