Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LONDON, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- A 17th-century English manual, to be auctioned next month, advises women to use goose grease on sagging breasts and warns against yielding too quickly to men. "The Ladies' Dictionary: being a General Entertainment for the Fair Sex," published in 1694, is expected to bring about $4,000 at Bonhams, the London auction house. Advertisement “It's an extraordinary book, offering advice to women of all classes on a wide range of subjects,” Matthew Haley, a book specialist at Bonhams, told The Daily Mail. “You could call it the Cosmopolitan of its day.“ The author is identified only by the initials H.N. The book includes advice on weight loss, with a further warning that women shouldn't become “too thin and scragged.” “No” appears to be the answer to the question “Is it proper for a woman to yield at the first address, though to a man she loves?” “Besides, you will get better Conditions if the Enemy does not know how weak you are within,” H.N. advises. “Forgive, Ladies, all the Warlike Gibberish,“ the newspaper report said.
