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November 7, 2024

135 YEARS AGO

Good Advice for Girls—Take plenty of exercise. Take it in the open air; take it alone and breathe with the mouth closed. Live on simple food – all the fruit and rare beef you want; very little pastry; a glass of claret for dinner; coffee in moderation, but never a sip of beer, because it thickens the voice and stupefies the senses. Keep regular hours for work, meals, rest and recreation, and never under any circumstances, indulge in the fashionable habit of eating late suppers. If you want to preserve the beauty of face and the priceless beauty of youth, keep well, keep clean, keep erect, and keep cool.

November 8, 1889

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