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Professor Tonry on Ladies' Toiletries
11-24-2014, 02:07 AM
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Professor Tonry on Ladies' Toiletries
Professor William P. Tonry, Anna Surratt's husband, delivered a lecture in 1875 on the chemical makeup of women's toiletries. I wonder if he used the contents of Anna's dressing table? If he did, I hope she left off using the items in question after hearing what went into these concoctions!

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11-24-2014, 07:32 AM
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Very interesting and suspect that she was his"testing model".
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11-24-2014, 09:00 AM
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Actually these were his two testing models

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So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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11-24-2014, 09:14 AM (This post was last modified: 11-24-2014 09:18 AM by BettyO.)
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Facilitating! And yes, Anna's toiletries were probably used in this experiment -

I know that the "Roseate Bloom" was one of Mrs. Demorest's products and advertised quite frequently in her magazine; while "Laird's Bloom of Youth"supposedly contained arsenic!

   

   

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11-24-2014, 11:04 AM
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GeneC-Great models to test on?
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