The Mirror of the Graces Containing General Instructions for Combining Elegance, Simplicity, and Economy with Fashion in Dress; Hints on Female Accomplishments and Manners; and Directions for the Preservation of Health and Beauty

“Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed; For contemplation he, and valor formed; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him.”

The general characteristics of youth, are meek dignity, chastened sportiveness, and gentle seriousness. Middle age has the privilege of preserving, unaltered, the graceful majes...

Advocate as I am for a fine complexion, you must perceive, that it is for the _real_, and not the _spurious_. The foundation of my argument, _the skin’s power of expression_, wo...

The morning robe should cover the arms and the bosom, nay even the neck. And if it be made tight to the shape, every symmetrical line is discovered with a grace so decent, that...

The first time my eyes met these words so coupled, I was seized with that honest shuddering which every delicate woman ought to feel at seeing the parts and situations of her pe...

In the like manner, a diversity of colors bespeaks vulgarity of taste, and a mind without innate elegance or acquired culture. Where doubt may be about this or that hue being be...

The woman whose figure bears nature’s own stamp of majesty, is generally of a stately make; her person is squarer, and has more of _embonpoint_ than the foregoing. The very musc...

The consequence is, when a young lady rises to dance, we no longer see the graceful, easy step of the gentlewoman, but the labored, and often indelicate exhibition of the postur...

I will go further upon this subject. The very voice of an individual, the tone she assumes in speaking to strangers, or even familiarly to her friends, will lead a keen observer...

Imagine, now, what is the consequence of applying compression, by corsets of some unyielding material, to a cavity enclosing so many delicate organs, whose free action is essent...

Put some roses into water, add to them a few drops of acid; the vitriolic acid seems to be preferable to any--soon the water will assume both the color and perfume of the roses.