The Arts of Beauty & Hints to Gentlemen

'Artificial Means'

"The following wash is a great favorite with the ladies on the continent of Europe, 

and cannot be used without the happiest effects, while it is a delightful and refreshing perfume:

Distill two handfuls of jessamine flowers in a quart of rose-water and a quart of orange-water. 

Strain through porous paper, and add a scruple of musk and a scruple of ambergris.

There cannot be a more agreeable wash for the skin."

Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating

"By all means wear jewelry; if you have it not of your own, borrow it,

or get it some other way, for you must be sure that you go not into the presence

of any woman, whose opinion is worth having, without being loaded with jewelry.

An immense breast-pin, either of diamonds or paste, with two rings on each hand

and a heavy fob chain, twelve inches long, will be sufficient to prove that you are

a man of substantial good sense..."

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