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 636
ntation than anyother variety of the human form divine. If the height be excessive,white and light colours should be avoided, though/if the slimness be Talks on the Toilet. 585 excessive, nothing is better adapted to apparently diminish it thanwhite and light colours. A very tall and very slight… … HOOP, 175: In Dores illustrations to Tennysons Idylls of the King, the women arepainfully long and thin. The artist has found himself obliged, in more than onecase, to give them enormously long features, like a Roman-nosed carriage horse, inorder to re-establish the lost proportions. 10O1. BUT IF…
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