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Excerpt from Beauty's Aids: Or How to Be Beautiful It is not easy to answer in a few words the question which heads this chapter. The conception of female beauty differs in every nation, and in every nation is a matter of individual taste. Ask an Oriental the kind of woman he thinks beautiful; he will describe a type of woman, black-haired, with languorous, almond eyes, and, above all, developed with a generosity amounting to obesity. The last detail is, for an Arab or a Turk, the important point, and certain harems enclose, it appears, beauties of a majestic size. Ask the same question of a subject of the son of heaven; he will depict his ideal with yellow skin, eyes narrow and oblique, short-waisted, and with feet so small as to be almost an infirmity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.