The Drive for American Beauty Baffles Skeptics
A columnist scoffs at Dr. Eugene Fisk’s campaign to “improve” American women through a beauty drive. The piece recalls 1856 warnings of unhealthy wives, mocks male anxieties about future mothers, and argues readers prefer natural charm over reform rhetoric and costly publicity.
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