The Arts of Beauty & Hints to Gentlemen

How to Acquire a Bright and Smooth Skin

"I have to tell you, ladies -- and the same must be said to the gentlemen, too --

that the great secret of acquiring a bright and beautiful skin lies in three simple things,

as I have said in my lecture on Beautiful Women -- temperance, exercise and cleanliness.

"No; if dssipation, late hours, and immoderation have once wrecked

the fair vessel of female charms, it is not in the power of

Esculapius himself to right the shattered bark, 

and make it ride the sea in gallant trim again."

Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating

"You cannot be too attentive to your dress. You should never approach a lady except 

when dressed so as to look precisely as though a tailor had made you not more than

fifteen minutes ago. 

If you are wise, you will not fail to impress upon a lady's mind the idea that you are a 

great deal more particular about your clothes than your mind, for your mind, 

being always out of sight, can never offend her taste, whereas your clothes are

constantly before her eyes."

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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