The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also a useful instructor in letter writing, toilet preparations, fancy needlework, millinery, dressmaking, care of wardrobe, the hair, teeth, hands, lips, complexion, etc

Image 1 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... Nettie R Hamilton Missouri Avenue Nettie Regina Hamilton Missouri Avenue

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Date: 1857-01-01

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Image 3 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... THE Lady's Guide TO PERFECT GENTILITY, IN MANNERS, DRESS, AND CONVERSATION, IN THE FAMILY, IN COMPANY, AT THE PIANO FORTE, THE TABLE, IN THE STREET, AND IN GENTLEMEN'S SOCIETY. ALSO A USEFUL...

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Date: 1857-01-01

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Date: 1857-01-01

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Date: 1857-01-01

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Image 7 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. AGREEABLENESS AND BEAUTY OF PERSON. THE TRUE FOUNDATION OF FEMALE LOVELINESS—A HEALTHY SKIN AND FAULTLESS COMPLEXION—THE HAIR—THE TEETH—THE LIPS-THE HANDS—THE NAILS—THE FEET—THE BREATH—CHOICE PREPARATIONS FOR THE LADY'S TOILET, 11...

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Date: 1857-01-01

Image 8 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... vi CHAPTER III. FEMALE DRESS: HOW TO COMBINE ELEGANCE, STYLE, AND ECONOMY. QUANTITY, ADAPTATION, AND GENERAL EFFECT OF APPAREL—CUT AND QUALITY OF DRESS ADAPTED TO THE MARRIED AND UNMARRIED, THE OLD AND...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 9 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... vii CHAPTER VI. ELEGANT FANCY NEEDLE-WORK, KNITTING, NETTING, CROCHET, EMBROIDERY, ETC., ETC., 186 CHAPTER VII. THE ART OF MILLINERY AND DRESS-MAKING. GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING BONNETS, HOUSE CAPS, ETC.—FACTS AND RULES IN...

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Date: 1857-01-01

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Date: 1857-01-01

Image 11 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... INDEX CHAPTER I. AGREEABLENESS AND BEAUTY OF PERSON. PAGE Beauty must be natural 11 Necessity of careful attention to the person 12 Change of linen, etc. 14 Care of the feet 15...

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Date: 1857-01-01

Image 12 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... x Choice hair oils, washes, etc, 40 How to preserve the teeth sound and white 43 Effects of food on the teeth 45 Care in applying foreign substances to the teeth 47...

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Date: 1857-01-01

Image 13 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... xi Servile imitation to be avoided 73 The folly of affectation 74 Diffidence preferable to ostentation 75 Undue reserve causes anger or distrust 76 Pride and overbearance always odious 77 Gait and...

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Date: 1857-01-01

Image 14 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... xii Serving the dinner, carving, &c. 100 Conversation at the table 100 Special rules to be observed at the table 101 Leaving the table 103 Preliminary matters on wedding occasions 104 Duties...

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Date: 1857-01-01

Image 15 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... xiii Effect of violet 127 Suitable colors for white and blonde complexions 127 Trimming of bonnets 128 Additional observations 129 Lacing the chest 132 Effect of tight lacing, etc. 133 Some additional...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 16 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... xiv Speaking of the absent 150 How a lady should speak of her husband 151 How a lady should be spoken of by her husband 151 Speaking of one's self 151 Things,...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 17 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... xv Bracelets 193 A pretty lace 193 An insertion 193 California scollop 195 A pretty lace collar 195 A purse 196 Work-bag 197 Embroidery in its various modes 199 Stitches on muslin...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 18 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... xvi CHAPTER VII THE ART OF MILLINERY AND DRESSMAKING. Effect of bonnets on the general appearance 215 Mode of proceeding 216 Mourning bonnets 217 A handsome house cap 218 A neat bonnet...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 19 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... CHAPTER I. AGREEABLENESS AND BEAUTY OF PERSON. 1*

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Date: 1857-01-01

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Date: 1857-01-01

Image 21 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 11 THE Lady's Guide to Gentility. CHAPTER I. AGREEABLENESS AND BEAUTY OF PERSON. THE TRUE FOUNDATION OF FEMALE LOVELINESS—A HEALTHY SKIN AND FAULTLESS COMPLEXION—THE HAIR—THE TEETH—THE LIPS—THE HANDS—THE NAILS—THE—FEET—THE BREATH—CHOICE PREPARATIONS FOR...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 22 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 12 Necessity of careful attention to the person .—The grand preservatives of beauty are the means which impart health to the body. The reasons are, that the skin is everywhere, except on...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 23 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 13 head. In fact, ignorant persons suppose them to be worms, but a magnifying glass shows what they really are. The greatest quantity of this oily matter is poured out upon the...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 24 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 14 only in part, for the ink in the grooves or furrows is scarcely touched by the cloth. This little experiment will show you the impossibility of cleansing any part of the...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 25 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 15 become rancid, as has just been explained. In some persons, owing to some peculiarity in their constitution, this odor is far more noticeable than in others, but it is discoverable in...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 26 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 16 morning in water, at the temperature of the weather in summer, and in that which has stood in a warm room during the winter. A little soap should also be used....

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 27 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 17 not voluntarily abandon means so completely within their power, and so simple, of enhancing all their physical perfections. But let it be recollected, that to produce its beneficial effects, exercise must...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 28 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 18 they move along with so little exertion, and in so listless a manner, that they forfeit very nearly every advantage their health would otherwise derive from it—and all this, lest they...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 29 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 19 situation of life, we can confidently recommend it to them as an effectual remedy against lowness of spirits, and the pains of ennui; as the best cosmetic to which they can...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 30 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 20 and genuine taste will prefer the ruddy glow of health, the active, agile step, and exuberant gaiety of her who has spent some hours of every day in active exercises on...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 31 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 21 bathing and gentle friction; and here, at the risk of being thought tautological, we shall enforce the necessity of all persons (ladies especially) passing a wet sponge over the whole surface...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 32 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 22 among the ancients. The Greek mythology represents the goddess of Love rising from the sea, evidently indicating that the pure stream is the source of beauty. Lycurgus, the iron-hearted Spartan, enforced...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 33 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 23 to them scarcely needs a comment. When we add its remarkable soothing effects upon the internal organs generally, and consider all the delightful associations connected with perfect cleanliness, we cannot but...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 34 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 24 vegetable, with the luxuries of the dairy, is most advantageous. It has been observed by all traveliers, that nowhere are finer complexions to be found than in those parts of England,...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 35 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 25 harsh. The cheek may be red, but it is not the carnation tint of health—it more resembles the flush of the dram-drinker, and arises from a similar cause, viz. too much...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 36 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 26 to persons ten years' exemption from the invasion of these disagreeable reminders of mortality, beyond the period that unassisted nature would have imparted, unless any chronic or inflammatory disease prevents; observing,...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 37 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 27 we have endeavored to distinguish those which are most objectionable, on account of the deleterious articles which they contain. A knowledge of their manufacture will, therefore, prevent ill consequences, if it...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 38 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 28 quantity of honey: beat the whole into a smooth paste, spread it thinly on the skin at night, and wash it off in the morning. Pure carmine .—Carmine is made from...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 39 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 29 four ounces of very white wax, five ounces of oil of almonds, one ounce of very pure spermaceti, one and one-half ounces of white lead washed in rose-water, and an ounce...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

Image 40 of The lady's guide to perfect gentility in manners, dress, and conversation ... also ... 30 to a paste, in a mortar, with the tincture of benjamin, and then add the soap, previously cut into fine pieces. This preparation cleanses and assists the complexion, and is perfectly...

Contributor: Derby & Jackson - Thornwell, Emily - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1857-01-01

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