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CHAPTER VIII.
MIDDLE LIFE.
"At this period, in all well constituted women, the fat being absorbed with less activity, is accumulated in the cellular tissues under the skin and elsewhere; and this effaces any wrinkles which might have begun to furrow the skin, rounds the outlines anew, and again restores an air of youth and freshness."
IN speaking of the middle age of woman there are a few things which must be taken into consideration in reference to her anatomical construction, which influence the whole that we have to say in relation to the peculiar support which she will require in that particular period called "middle life;" for unless this conception be fully realized it will not be perceived why we have gone out of our way to invent certain things which are specially adapted to this time of life.
Middle age is that period which dates from the completion of the whole organic structure, and continues until the decline of the innate force, and
