The Banting System.--A Quaint Author.--Trials of Corpulency.--Result of Living on Sixpence a Day.--Indifference of Doctors.--A Wise Surgeon.--Relation of Glucose to Obesity.--Diet for Stout People.--No Starch, no Sugar.--Losing Flesh at the Rate of a Pound a Week.--“Human Beans.”--Humors of Banting’s Tract.--His Gratitude.--Honors to Dr. Harvey.--One Day with Dives, the Next with Lazarus.--Bromide of Ammonia 175 CHAPTER XVIII. A Letter.--Trials of a Plain Woman.--The Best Husband in the World.--Burdock Wash for the Hair.--For Children’s Hair.--Oil of Mace as a Stimulant.--To Restore Color to the Hair.--Sperm-oil a Powerful Hair Restorer.--The Cheapest Hair-Dye.--Cure for Chilblains.--Loose Shoes the Cause of Corns.--Pyroligneous Acid for Corns.--Turpentine and Carbolic Acid for Soft Corns 185 CHAPTER XIX. A Talk about Complexions.--Delicate Lotion.--Cause of Rough Faces.--Sun Painting and Bleaching.--Court Ladies Refusing to Wash their Faces.--Experiments with Olive-tar.--Consumption and Clear Faces.--Rev. W. H. H. Murray on Olive-tar.--Porcelain Women.--Drawing Humors to the Surface.--What is to be Done for the Weak Women? 192 CHAPTER XX. Sulphur Baths.--Bleaching Old Faces.--Experiments in Bathing.--Cautions.--Need of Public Baths.--Their Proper Prices.--Method of Giving Sulphur Vapor-baths.--Hot Baths for Hot Weather.--Russian Baths at Home.--Improvements Needed in Public Baths.--What they Should be.--What they Are.--The Russian Vapor-bath.--After-Sensations.--Brightness and Lightness of Health.--Reverence for the Physical.--Influence of Bathing on the Nerves and Passions.--Necessity of Public Baths 198 CHAPTER XXI. Devices of Uneasy Age.--Bread Paste and Court-plaster to Conceal Wrinkles.--Accepting the Situation.--Plain Women and Agreeable Toilets.--Examples.--The Rector’s Daughter.--Dressing on Two Hundred a Year.--Écru Linen and White Nansook.--A Senator’s Wife.--A Washington Success.--Dull, Thin Faces.--Hay-colored Hair.--Advantages of Lining Rooms with Mirrors 212 CHAPTER XXII. Physical Education of Girls.--A Woman’s Value in the World.--High-bred Figures.--Antique Races.--Inspiration of Art not Vanity.--The Trying Age.--Dress, Food, and Bathing for Young Girls.--A Veto on Close Study.--Braces and Backboards.--Never Talk of Girls’ Feelings.--Exercise for the Arms.--Singing Scales with Corsets off.--Development of the Bust.--Open-work Corsets the Best.--The Bayaderes of India and their Forms.--The Delicacy due Young Girls.--A Frank but Needed Caution.--Care of the Figure after Nursing 224 CHAPTER XXIII.