Elastic ribbed union suits cover the entire body like an additional skin. Fitting like a glove, but softly and without pressure. No buttons down the front. Made for men, women and young people. Most convenient to put on, being entered at the top and drawn on like trousers. With no other kind of underwear can ladies obtain such perfect fit for dresses or wear comfortably so small a corset.--From The Delineator--
Soft cooked" cereals are swallowed without the necessary mastication, thus robbing the teeth of their NATURAL exercise, causing weakness and decay. Shredded Whole Wheat Biscuit, being crisp, compels vigorous mastication and causes the NATURAL flow of saliva which is necessary for NATURAL digestion.--From The Delineator--
Miss Annie Avery, a student in Lanrk, Ont., writes: "I know I felt my ill health even more than if I had been engaged in any other work, as the confinement of school only increased my sickness and inability to study.--From The Delineator--
"Last year I was on the way to a general breakdown in health; I suffered from severe headaches, was becoming a confirmed dispeptic, nervous system broken down, and my condition went on from bad to worse until I was unable to study or even go to school.
"My parents were very anxious about me, as medicine did not help, and mother, hearing about Grape-Nuts, obtained some and I commenced to use it at once...
...I have gained 30 lbs. since using Grape-Nuts and am enjoying good physical and mental health."
You can see all sorts of interesting things if you go to ordinary places at unusual times.
Every little girl has a corner in her heart set apart for paper dolls.... ...the plain, ordinary, old-fashioned paper doll which she can cut out for herself from magazines and fashion books.--From Harper's Bazaar--
Every step you travel you meet with heads and carcases of dead buffaloes. When an Indian has a mind to kill many of them, he mounts his horse, with bow and a case containing several scores of arrows: he throws the reins loose about the horse's neck, who knows by constant practice his rider's intention, and gallops with all his speed through the middle of the herd of buffaloes. The Indian shoots as he goes along, until he expends his last arrow, then returns to pick up his prey, and from such as he finds dead he cuts out the tongue and the lump on the back, which he carries away with him; the rest of the carcase he leaves to wolves and other ravenous animals.--From The Bee, or literary intelligencer--
Finally, Lord Guan spoke: "If I fail, my head is yours."--From the Romance of the Three Kingdoms--
Cao Cao had a draft of wine heated for Lord Guan before he mounted. "Pour it," said the warrior, "and set it aside for me. I'll be back shortly."
What was the outcome of the fight?Every chapter ends in that fashion.
Read on.
To make your Hair yellow.pimple cream:
To make your Hair red.
To dye Hair black.
For a red face full of pimples.tooth whitener:
A powder to keep the teeth white.deodorant:
Against the ill smell of the arm pits.skin lighteners:
That the skin may be exceeding white.and self tanners:
A water to make the face black.--From Eighteen books of the secrets of art and nature--
That hairs may fall, and none grow again.and:
A dipilitory whereby a hairy place is made bald.which leave you wondering exactly what they are talking about, because they only mention hairy places in general. Did people back then want bald heads? However this entry, which seems at first to be about something else, makes what they are talking about perfectly clear:
That Children may never have Beards.--From Eighteen books of the secrets of art and nature--
That Boys and Girls may never have hair grow on their secrets [vaginas] or beards, annoint the privities [privates]...
That Womens Breasts may be made like to Virgins Breasts.--From Eighteen books of the secrets of art and nature--
...it is proved by experience, that a scale Fish laid to Womens breasts, will so bind them together, that they will look like Virgins breasts. The same may be done to the Secrets [We know what that word means!]. Let those who are given to pleasure and ornament prick up their ears.
How well coloured and fair Children may be begotten.--From Eighteen books of the secrets of art and nature--
Great is the affection of the mind, or force of imagination, but greatest of all when it exceeds: what is it you may not do almost by it? Women when they are with Child, when they desire most eagerly, think of it vehemently, they change the spirits within, and in them are painted forms of the things they thought of; those move the blood, whereupon in the softest matter of the Child they imprint the form...
That the Woman shall abhore Copulation and the man shall desire it.--From Eighteen books of the secrets of art and nature--
If a red Bull's pisle be poured and a crown weight be given the woman to drink in wine or broth, she will abhore to lye with a man. But the same powder mingled with fit Ingredients will provoke men that are dull and impotent to Vencrous Acts.
A sleeping Apple.--From Eighteen books of the secrets of art and nature--
An Apple to make one sleep, is made of all these; Opium, Mandrake, juyce of Hemlock, Henbanefeed, Wine lees, to which must be added Musk, that by the scent it may provoke him that smells unto it. Make a Ball as big as a man may grasp in his hand, by often smelling to this it will cause him to shut his eyes and fall asleep: but it is but in vain to try to do this at certain hours; for men's temperaments vary: but he that shall go about it, may try it by such means, and all in vain. To hinder the danger of these things there is help enough: if you anoint their Temples, Nose, and Testicles with distilled Vinegar, or other things dissolved in Vinegar, that may drive away sleep and awaken the parties.
Take the fairest and the best Pippins,
and pare them; and make a hole in the top of them; then prick in each hole a Clove or two, then put them in the coffin [pie crust], then break in whole sticks of Cinnamon,It must have been somewhat dangerous to eat pies, with sticks of cinnamon hidden in them. I used two inches of cinnamon sticks and five cloves.
the slices of Orange-pills [orange peels], and Dates, and on the top of every Pippin, a little piece of sweet Butter; then fill the coffin, and cover the Pippins over with Sugar:I mixed my ingredients up with some sugar (and a pinch of salt).
then close up the Pye, and bake it, as you bake Pyes of the like nature: and when it is bak'd, anoint the lid over with sweet Butter, and strew Sugar upon it a good thickness, and set into the oven again for a little space, as while the meat is in dishing up, and then serve it.I didn't add sugar on top. Instead I egged it, so a certain design (anachronistic) would be highlighted.
To prevent sleep.--From Eighteen books of the secrets of art and nature--
There is a Berry brought out of Egypt cald Coffee, which being dried and beaten to pouder, and boyled in fair water, is much used among the Turks to make them lively and prevent sleep, which of late is become of great use in England.
How Letters that cannot be defaced may be written upon Mens bodies.--From Eighteen books of the secrets of art and nature--
If you please at any time to write new Figures upon a Man, you may easily do it in a hot house, dividing the uttermost skin with a Razor, or a Lancet, first marking the Letter with Inke upon the skin; then fill up the cuts with red Lead, or blew, or with some Earth of the same colour which you would have it...
My Brethren all attend,--From Rump: or An Exact collection of the choycest poems--
And list to my relation:
This is the day, mark what I say,
Tends to your renovation;
Stay not among the Wicked,
Lest that with them you perish,
But let us to New-England go,
And the Pagan People cherish;
Then for the truths sake come along, come along,
Leave this place of Superstition :
Were it not for we, that the Brethren be,
You would sink into Perdition.
How to make dainty sport with a Cat."Dainty"; this should be nice.
If you will have some sport with a Cat, then get a little Bell, such as the tame Hawkes have at their legs, and tye the Bell something hard...Uh oh!
...at the end of the Cats taile, and let her go, the feeling, of her tail smart, and hearing of the Bell gingle, she will run up and down as if she were mad, flying against the walls and windows...Okay, that was pretty awful.
Some have shod a Cat round, with putting melted Pitch into four Walnut-shels, and placing her feet therein, and she will make pretty sport.Oh My God!
I was told of a merry Fellow that came into an Ale-house in cold weather, and finding but a reasonable Fire, said, He would make the Cat piss it out, and watching his oppertunity, he getteth his Hostesses Cat, putting her head betwixt his thighs, and holding her four feet fast in one hand, and with the other hand held up her taile near the fire, and did piss such aboundance that she quite quenched the same.Ha!
A very pretty and ready way to teach Children or others suddenly to learn their ABC in manner of play.
Cause four pieces of Bone or Wood to be cut into six square-like Dice, and upon every side or square let one of the letters of the Alphabet be ingraven or writ, ABCDEF upon one of them, then GHIKLM on the other, and so of the rest in order, as you may see in the Figure.
Now the Child taking delight, and using to play with them (amongst other Children) and being told what Letters are uppermost, will soon learn their Aphabet, as it were by the way of sport and pastime.
How to write Love-letters secretly, or From one Friend to another, that cannot be discovered.--From A Rich Cabinet--
Take a sheet of white Paper, and double it in the middle, then cut holes through both the half-sheets, let the holes be cut like panes of Glass-windows, or other forms that you best fancy, and then pin prick holes at each end, and cut your paper in two halfs, give one to your Friend... ...the other half keep to your self: Now when you do write, lay your cut paper on a half sheet of writing Paper, and stick two Pins through the two holes that it stir not, then through those holes that you did cut, write your minde to your Friend; when you have done, take off your Paper with the holes again, and then write some other idle words both before and after your lines, but if they were written to make some little sense, it would carry the less suspicion; then seal it up, and send it.
An excellent way for baking of Bread, that it shall not be hard crusted, nor yield so many crums.--From A Rich Cabinet--
Goe to the Plate-worker, (such as maketh ordinary Dripping-pans) and cause him to make a Pot... ...according as you mean the bigness of your Loaf shall be... ...when it is done, take a little Butter, and annoint the in-side of the pot there-with, and when your Dow is moulded put it in the same...
You may make Figures of what shape your fancy best pleaseth: the body must be made of light wicker rods, and in the midst of the body let there be placed an axel-tree, having two Wheels coming into the water, yet so as they may not be seen: these Wheels must be made hollow, to contain a quantity of sand or water: the use of it is to keep the body of your Figure upright, and able to sink it so far into the water as is needful, and likewise to make it swim more steady: note that these Wheels must be lose, and the axel-tree fast: in the midst of the axel-tree place three or four Rockets one by another, with their mouths all one way: yet so provided that there may be such a distance between each Rocket, that there may come a vent from the tayl of the first to the mouth of the second, and from the second to the third. And to the end that may continue the longer in motion, you may place divers lights about the Body, to make it more beautiful; every of which lights extinguishing shall give a report, and so conclude.--From A Rich Cabinet--
First then to speak of Feavers or Agues; the House-wife shall know those kinds thereof, which are most familiar and ordinary as the Quotidian or daily Ague, the Tertian or every other days ague, the Quartan or every third days ague, the Pestilent, which keepeth no order in his fits, but is more dangerous and mortal: And lastly, the accidentall Feaver, which proceedeth from the receit or some wound, or other painful Perturbation of the spirits.--From The English House-wife--
Since there is no pleasure more Noble, Delightsome, or void of couzenage [?] and deceit than this pleasure of Cocking is; and since many of the best Wisdomes of our Nation have been pleased to participate with the delights therein; I think it not amiss, as well for the instruction of those which are not unexperienced, as fortifying of them which have some knowledge therein, to declare in a few Lines the Election, Breeding, and Secrets of dyeting the Fighting Cock...--From Country Contentments--
An Account of an Experiment made by M. Hook, of Preserving Animals alive by Blowing through their Lungs with Bellows.
I did heretofore give this Illustrious Society an account of an Experiment I formerly tryed of keeping a Dog alive after his Thorax was all displayed by cutting away the Ribbs and Diaphragme; and after the Pericardium of the Heart also was taken off....
...the Dog being kept alive by the Reciprocal blowing up of his Lungs with Bellowes, and they suffered to subside, for the space of an hour or more...
Then resolving to bleed the Sheep to death, we bound her the second time, and opened the emittent part of the Vein again; whereupon having bled about 60 ounces, she fell into Convulsions; and after the loss of about 5 ounces more, she died upon the place: and being dressed by the Butcher, there did not, in all the usual places, appear above 3 ounces of blood; and the whole Sheep looked a lovely white; and the meat of it (to the taste of those, that eat of it) was very sweet.--From Philosophical transactions--
The Sheep being dead, we resolved likewise to see the Calf bleed to death...
...about 25 ounces of blood, of a very lovely and vivid colour...
