The woman's book : dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunties, and every-day problems (1894)
New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 226
or anyconstriction of the waist,increases the amount ofblood placed at the dis-posal of muscles, skin, and brain. Theystate, too, thatthis increasedsupply of blood,on which the ac-tivity of the tis-sues so greatlydepends, may beobtained withoutserious interfer-ence with the nu-trition of the… … 198 The yEsthetics of Dress. during physical ex-ertion. The actionof these, even in thehealthiest savage,is assisted ratherthan opposed by abelt. That all peo-ples have recognizedthis principle of thegirdle their recordsshow. The tombsand temples of an-cient Egypt disclosefigures clasped aboutwith…
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