Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> In times gone by, in Italy, beauty was defined as big open, eyes. There was > an herb used to dilate the pupils and make the eyes look bigger. > The herb was called Belladonna...... Women took it willingly to catch a > man.... > In the 19th and early 20th century, poor Appalachian girls would do the same thing but they got their belladonna from a natural source, the thornapple plant which is a weed growing here in waste places. The only problem was they could not go out in full sunlight until it wore off. The leaf was crushed with a little water and a few drops squeezed into each eye. Ah, beauty...... JB