This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 Excerpt: ...of the girl to the mature graces of the matron and the venerable dignity of advanced age: the face of a sylph becomes almost at once transformed into a gorgon's head. In discussing this subject with Signore Lusieri he assured me that the fault lay not so much in the climate as in the destructive habits of the Grecian ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 Excerpt: ...of the girl to the mature graces of the matron and the venerable dignity of advanced age: the face of a sylph becomes almost at once transformed into a gorgon's head. In discussing this subject with Signore Lusieri he assured me that the fault lay not so much in the climate as in the destructive habits of the Grecian females, more especially in the abuse of the bath, which they attend almost daily, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. $$5 remaining in its hot suclatories several hours at a time, where they discuss more scandal than circulates at an English tea-table in as many weeks: hence their colour vanishes and their fibres are relaxed; hence they become languid and unable to take wholesome exercise: soon after the age of twenty wrinkles begin to appear and they suffer all the inconveniences of premature debility. My informant very justly stigmatized another custom also connected with the bath, which permits young boys to attend their mothers in the bathing room till they arrive at the age of ten or twelve years; a practice more pernicious than this to the morals of youth can scarcely be conceived. Though the Grecian females are not accomplished, yet they possess a considerable degree of elegance in their address and manners: their salutation is particularly graceful, consisting of a gentle inclination of the body whilst the right hand is brought in contact with the waist: they are generally found by visitors reclining indolently on the sofas of the apartment, their silken robes bound round with a silver-clasped zone, their hair partly wreathed with flowers or adorned with pearls, and partly flowing in curls over tlieir shoulders, their eyebrows carefully arranged and tinged with siinne, a powder of the blackest dye, their nails stained with henna, and their complexion...
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