The editor of our past Counsellors newsletter, The Talkabout Club, recently
bought at a second-hand book sale a book called What Everyone Knew About
Sex. This contains the wisdom of one Orsam Squire Fowler (1809-1887).  The
chapter on breasts opens with:

Two mammary glands developed on the busts of all females when arrived at
maturity, which appears between the arms on all whom puberty ushers into
womanhood...As a female beautifier, no other toilet appendage bears any
comparison to them.  She in whom they are large, round and duly elevated,
looks splendidly.
All well-sexed maidens enter womanhood with a plump, luscious bust, which
usually shrivels gradually until it almost disappears by age twenty.  This
lamentable decline has its adequate causes, preventions and restoratives.
To look really charming, the breasts must rise and fall with every breath
and gently quiver at every step.

What, you are probably asking, causes this *lamentable decline*? It's lack
of loving attention from the husband! His *neglect or crossness deadens a
wife's love, and thereby shrivels her mammaries*.

And does Orsam approve of breastfeeding?

Most certainly, but there are, a Dr Naphreys has noted, some hazards.  No
nursing mother is safe, he declares, whoses breasts are not properly and
daily emptied.  *If this cannot be done by the child, another infant should
be applied, or a small puppy, either of which expedients is preferable to a
breast-pump*

Lesley McBurney, Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia,
She-in-whom-they-are-still-large-well-past-twenty, and definitely well-loved.

PS Bev Rae, the editor is still eagerly awaiting you life story.