RECIPE TO MAKE A FASHIONABLE WOMAN.
I The New York Science of Health is esponsible for the following:—" Take inety-nine pounds of flesh and bone rbut chiefly bones—bore holes in the firs, cut off the small toes; bend the jack to form the Grecian bend, the ioston dip, the Kangaroo droop, or the aratoga slope, as the taste inclines ; hen add three yards of linen, one undred yards of ruffles, seventy-five ards of edging, eighteen yards of iroity, one pair of silk or cotton hose, jx yards of flannel, embroidered, one fair of Balmoral boots, with heels hree inches high, four pounds of whalelone, in strips, 260 yards of steel wire, falf a mile of tape, two pounds of ptton or wire hemispheres, fifty yards (f silk or other dress goods, one hundred jards of point lace, four hundred yards pnge and other trimmings, twelve (ross of buttons, one box of pearl lowg <•; one saucer carmine, one bushel ff "store" hair, frizzled and fretted Ila maniaque, one quart of hair pins, be pound braid, one lace handkerchief |ne inches square, with patent holder, ferfumed with otto roses, and " clear le track."
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Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1067, 29 April 1873, Page 3
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191RECIPE TO MAKE A FASHIONABLE WOMAN. Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1067, 29 April 1873, Page 3
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