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The 17th century women's guide to looking good

dailymail.co.uk — An edition of a rare 1694 manual, The Ladies' Dictionary: Being a General Entertainment for the Fair Sex, is going up for auction next month. Described as the Cosmopolitan magazine of its day, its pages include pointers on dating, make-up, diet and expanding the mind, as well as a large portion devoted to that age-old concern - wobbly bits.

Who dugg this? Made popular Aug 18, 2007

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  • badwithcomputer, on 10/10/2007, -2/+23dugg for "wobbly bits"
  • SwissCamel, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7I think a lot of these fashion tips are still being used in Wales.
  • greenlight2001, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Doubt it. Willow bark (where 'aspirin' was first taken from) has been used since 5th century BC. Anything that has been in use for thousands of years doesn't die out easily.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7Feminists are sexually frustrated women. The Irish have a saying: keep a woman well ***** and poorly shod and they will never leave you. Nothing has changed. Give a woman some truth serum and ask her straight out what she wants out of life. The reply will be a slow two hour seduction. A sexually satisfied woman is happy and contented with her life and never bitchy. The moral of the story is make love not war. Tell a feminist using rubber is not like and never will be the real thing. Some societies has an obsession with sex . Karma Sutra, The Perfumed Garden, Japanese Plates.
  • aristotle0dude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Why are you so angry? Why are you resorting to tired rhetoric and name calling? Are you sexually frustrated. The so-called "male feminists" are also sexually frustrated or desperate men who are willing to try anything to win the favour of the opposite sex. Other than suggesting that truth serum would reveal what women are really after, I don't see anywhere mention of women being drugged. Keep your paranoia and sexual frustration to yourself please.

    I'm tired of sycophants. If you are a woman, get laid and if you are man, grow a pair and then get laid.

    From what I've experienced, women like men who are sure of themselves and are not afraid to go after it. They are not interested in male feminists.
  • theholycow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Use the preview to see the original link:
    http://preview.tinyurl.com/2pujhp
    --> http://www.turkyurdu.com/hollywood/?womensandcelebs
    It won't load, and I can't tell from the URL.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Don't forget advice on syphillis and high child mortality rate.
  • HappyScrappy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Please. There is a humor section. Use it.
  • 0260, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2its for all the women, either way would make sense i think
  • sofaKing812, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Also, THERE IS HALF A NIP!!!!!!
    (That is seventeenth century excitement, or just typical excitement on digg. Either way).
  • oneoverzero, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4Just wait, in 300 years, the thought of taking aspirin for a headache may seem bizarre and nonsensical.
  • cbrox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Stuff likes this makes me wonder whether humanity, independent of technological and social environment, is always the same. It's kind of weird to think that way back when, people were just like us. History books should make history more personable instead of merely listing concrete facts and dates.
  • chochazel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0So in 300 years, our remedies are, for the most part, more convenient, but no less superstitious.

    http://www.gina.antczak.btinternet.co.uk/CU/COSMET.HTM
  • twstdroot, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2@redhotwheels: Well, since the title of the manual is "The Ladies' Dictionary" and not "The Lady's Dictionary" then it would be "women's" and not "woman's"... I think.
  • taco95060, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2FTA-- From the book "It is not necessary read many Books, but to read the best. The forbidding of idle Books makes young people more curious to read them"
  • sirlancelot88, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0THIS! IS! SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
  • dlomax, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3Databoy, most, if not all, patriarchal cultures have hateful and misogynist sayings that are passed off as pithy wit. but it doesn't make them clever. To dismiss all feminists as "sexually frustrated women" is to display the ignorance and intolerance with which such hateful homespun wit can usually be associated. Feminists are those who believe, as the old saying goes (and, forgive me, I can't remember who first said it) "the radical notion that women are people." Men can be feminists. I am. And I'm quite sexually satisfied, thank you very much. In fact, in my experience, the ones who always angrily bring up the notion of sexual satisfaction are usually more than a little frustrated themselves.

    You advocate drugging a woman in order to properly communicate with her. Is a dating strategy that usually works for you? If so, then why so angry? I'd watch it with that truth serum if I were you, because if the woman were to administer it to you and then hear some of your opinions, well -- you might end up frustrated again.
  • wburglett, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1SFW?
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -10/+3Walk everywhere with a huge banana in your mouth. Heck I endorse that for today's woman too.
  • succeed2k, on 10/10/2007, -7/+0LOL @ Wobby Bits!
  • Nudar, on 10/10/2007, -11/+2I thought they were called *****.

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