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 227
ion. 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 close, broadbelts. We know thatthe Jews and… … with bandages is known to have pre-vailed among Greek and Roman wom-en. The efficacy of waist constrictionin promoting physical and mental en-durance is apparently regarded evenby the peasants of our own day ; sincewe are told that the women of thisclass, in France, Switzerland, and Hun-gary, wear…
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