How to Dress (Teen Girl Edition), c. 1500

British Library, Harley MS 4425, f. 37v"I counsel you not to wear anything outrageous, either too tight or too trailing, nor should you resemble those women who think they are very fashionable when their clothing is low-cut and very tight and...

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How to Schedule Your Child, 1695

“As soon as they are up in the Morning, they shall spend one Hour in Reading, and then eat their Breakfast: After which, such as love Musick, shall play and practice one Hour, and those that are for Painting, the like: The others shall walk...

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How to Write an Essay, 1886

"Topics Suitable for Composition" proposed by Thomas E. Hill, Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms: The Bachelor's Home.Discoveries of Galileo.People whom we Meet.Pleasures of Suburban Life.Love Conquers Selfishness.Things in a Country...

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How to Live With Cats, 1607

"It must be considered what harmes and perils come vnto men by this beast. It is most certaine that the breath and sauour of cats consume the radicall humour and destroy the lungs, and therefore they which keepe their cats with them in their...

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How to Maintain a Relationship, 15th century

Walters Art Museum MS W.166, f. 118r"If a woman places feathers from a capon that has hatched young chickens in her husband's ear as well as hair from the right leg of his dog and from the tip of his cat's tail, he would never forget his...

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How to Sweet Talk Your Man, 1713

Lewis Walpole Library"Complemental Expressions towards Men Leading to the Art of Courtship": Sir, I am daily in disquiet, and shall be, till some occasion be offered me suddenly wherein I may appear to You to be more than Verbal.Sir, Your...

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How to Whiten Your Teeth, 1607

That Unicornu fossile is definitely legit.Michael Bernhard Valentini, Museum museorum (1714), George Peabody Library."The horne of an Vnicorne being beaten and boyled in wine, hath a wonderful effect in making the teeth white or cleare, the...

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How to Accessorize in Winter, 1858

"What more delightful or dignified present can any lord make his lady than presenting her with a complete suit of ermine, comprising muff, cuffs, cape, tippet, boa, and cloak. I know of no present that will give such general and infinite satisfaction......

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