Think beauty, touch beauty

I was looking some stuff up for Rook's game char. (a slayer) who has been transported from the 50s into now in a robot body. This, from the book "Your Power As A Woman: How To Develop It and Use It" -- 1957. "Your Guide Book To A Happier and More Rewarding Life!"

Have you touched beauty today? Have you behaved as a beauty should? Has your talk been becoming to a beauty? You must open your mind to beauty wherever you see, hear, or find it.

It takes time and persistent mental control to maintain a high standard of beauty. Seeking beauty is one of the finest goals in a woman's life, and it is one of the easiest to attain. You have only to live beauty daily, and consider love the jackpot which you have the heart, mind, beauty, and cleverness to win.

That's with deleting all the stuff about eyelash curling and slenderizing -- the edited version! The whole book is a giant ad for this particular brand of makeup so that beauty always comes down to scheming to get a husband and succeeding by using Hazel Bishop's No-Smear Lipstick.

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It's a testament to our mothers that that sort of rhetoric didn't drive them all to madness or suicide.