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Title: Godey's lady's book
Year: 1840 (1840s)
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Subjects: Women American literature Costume Arts
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : L.A. Godey
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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our slidingforwards, and thus straining the ligaments and musclesin the small of the back. The expedient I have advisedwill obviate this tendency, and, as I have suggested, addgreatly to the comfort and healthfulness of the sittingposture. The front edge of a chair should not be more thanfifteen inches high for the average man, nor more thanfourteen for the average woman. The average chair isnow seventeen inches high for all, which no amount ofslanting in the seat can make comfortable.—LewissGymnasium. Scene in a City Raibroad Car.—Enter a female-gentleman rises—she is about to take his seat withoutthe slightest acknowledgment. The gentleman said toher: I am not bound to give up my seat, and will notunless I am thanked for it. She refused to do so, andthe gentleman resumed his seat. The unanimous ver-dict of the passengers was, Served her right. 614 godeys ladys book and magazine. A SUBURBAN VILLA.Designed expressly for Godeys Ladys Book by Samuel Sloan, Architect, Philadelphia.
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PERSPECTIVE VIEW. The villa which we here present is exceedingly ex-pressive of architectural style, and in its constructionevidently demands some solid material, such as stone,or at least its imitation, as the principal building ma-terial. Space will not permit us to say more in itspraise than that it has made its owner a most comfortablehome for a number of years, and its appearance excitesthe admiration of all impassioned judges.

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