How to Throw a Party (Single Ladies' Edition), 1896

Manners and Customs of Polite Society (1896)"The bachelor women in their cosy little city apartments, or even their one apartment, refuse to be debarred from the pleasure and privilege of giving the little entertainments so dear to the heart...

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How to Grow Eggplants, 1616

Ulisse Aldrovandi, Il teatro della natura(vol. 1-1, p. 53, University of Bologna)"Manie men being verie desirous to adorne and set forth their Garden with all sorts of Plants, doe amongst the rest provide to furnish it with Apples of Love (which...

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How to Choose a Sports Drink, 1899

Charles Terront (Le Petit Journal, Sept. 26, 1891)"The cause of thirst, what best quenches it, what one should not drink, the opinion of the medical profession in regard to the fancy drinks, etc., are all questions which profoundly interest...

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How to Deodorize, 1605

Antonio Salamanca, The History of Psyche (16th c., Wellcome Library)"We will here discouer and discourse of the lothsome stench of the armepits... and how nearer that the stench is to the nose, so much the lothsomer is it. This stench is augmented...

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How to Run, 1657

Crispijn van de Passe, Atalanta and Hippomenes, 1602-7(Rijksmuseum)“Swift motion, renders the body thin and compacted. Slow motion, rarifies and encreases the Flesh… Running, if it be Vehement, is good for Fat and moist bodies, but it is bad...

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