[Illustration: UGLY-GIRL PAPERS FROM HARPERS BAZAR ] _REPRINTED FROM “HARPER’S BAZAR.”_ THE UGLY-GIRL PAPERS; OR, HINTS FOR THE TOILET. [Illustration] _NEW YORK_: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. TO AUNT SUSAN, THE DEAR AND HANDSOME OLD LADY WHO NEVER NEEDED ANY OF THESE RECIPES, LET ME OFFER MY FIRST BOOK. S. D. P. PREFACE. By means of these scattered chapters the writer has come to know women better--their traditions, desires, and delights. If through these pages women should know themselves and what they may become in regard and temper for their lovers, friends, children, and their own sakes, it will well reward the pleasant labor which has already met such kind appreciation. Begun by chance, to make an agreeable article or two for _Harper’s Bazar_, the “Ugly-Girl Papers” were continued by request, and have brought the writer into friendly bearings with many of the readers of the _Bazar_. To their questions and hints these chapters owe more of their value than appears on the surface; and the little book goes out hoping to meet, if not new friends, at least some old ones. The science of the toilet is well-nigh as delicate as that of medicine; and as no prescription has yet proved a specific for disease, no recipe can reach all cases of complexion. I could wish for this book the good-will and consideration of physicians, under whose advice it may be hoped its suggestions will approve themselves of wide service. S. D. P. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Woman’s Business to be Beautiful.--How to Acquire a Clear Complexion.--Regimen for Purity of the Blood.--Carbonate of Ammonia and Powdered Charcoal.--Stippled Skins.--Face Masks.--Oily Complexions.--Irritations of the Skin.--Lettuce as a Cosmetic.--Cooling Drinks.--Sun-Baths.--Bread and Molasses Page 9 CHAPTER II. Care of the Hair.--Children’s Hair.--When to Cut it.--Ammonia Washes.--Glycerine and Ammonia.--Pomades.--How to Brush the Hair.--Cutting the Ends.--German Method of Treating the Hair.--Southernwood Pomade.--Hair-Dyes.--Dyeing the Eyebrows and Eyelashes.--Superfluous Hair.--Depilatories.--Washes for the Eyelashes and Eyebrows 22 CHAPTER III. Elegance of Manner.--Grace of the Latin Races.--The Secret of Grace.--Gliding Movement.--Calisthenics.--Erectness of Figure.--Shoulder Braces.--How to Acquire Sloping Shoulders.--Care of the Feet.--The Art of Walking.--Picturesque Carriage of Southern Women 35 CHAPTER IV.