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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HOW WE WERE ALL VACCINATED. April, 1871. To the Editor of the New Gazette. THEY must all be done, said my wife, and when my wife says that, there is no gainsaying her, the only question was what the doing of which she spoke so resolutely was to be. Some of you may think she was thinking of cooking, and was about to issue an ukase as to roasting or boiling. If so, you are greatly mistaken. It was a much more serious question; nothing more nor less than that she had set her heart on being vaccinated with her whole house. And here let me remark how silly most men are on the matter of the small-pox. To listen to them one would think it mattered nothing at all whether the human face divine were seared, and scarred, and seamed like a lava stream, or a furrowed field, or pitted like a Wimbledon target. The reason of their indifference I find in the fact that looks arelittle to men, but a great deal to ladies. Nay, I have known some men whose personal appearance was much improved by the small-pox, but never, on my honour, one lady. How true it is, alas, of women what the poet says, in prophetic verse, My face is my fortune, and how lucky it is for the mass of men that they have not to depend on their features for furtherance in life. How heavy they would be in hand, how hard to get rid of. In short, what a drug they would be in the matrimonial market. I could dilate a good deal on this delicate subject of personal appearance, but I hope I have said quite enough to show that the small-pox is especially a ladies' question. A man takes it, and as he tosses in the first fever, says to himself It will be a mild attack; I shan't die of it. Dying is all the cowardly wretch thinks of, but put a lady, young or old, in the same position; she thinks nothing of dying, but much as ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217853781 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217853781 |
| Weight | 0.51 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.35 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 150 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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