The Bonniest Kate in Christendom.--A Word to Mothers and Aunts.--Different Vanities.--The Sorrows of Ugly Women.--Recipes of an Ancient Beauty.--Sand Wash.--Color for the Nails.--Embrocation for the Hands.--Soap to Bleach the Arms.--Freckle Lotions.--Artistic Enthusiasm at the Toilet 108 CHAPTER XI. A Dark Potion.--Olive-oil and Tar for the Face.--Olive-tar for Inhalation.--Carbolic Lotion for Pimples.--Cure for Musquito Bites.--Pale Blondes.--A French Marquise.--Deepening Colors by Sunlight.--Seductive Cosmetics.--Nose-machine.--Finger Thimbles 117 CHAPTER XII. Removal of Superfluous Hair.--Effects of High Living.--Work of Typhoid Fever.--Roman Tweezers.--Lola Montez’s Recipes.--Paste of Wood-ashes.--Bleaching Arms with Chloride.--Cautions about Depilatories.--Public Baths.--Improving Complexions by the Sulphur Vapor-bath.--How Arabian Women Perfume Themselves.--Profuse Hair, Sign of Nature’s Bounty 125 CHAPTER XIII. Madame Celnart’s Works of the Toilet.--Literature of Beauty.--Cares of the Toilet.--Arts of Coiffure and Lacing.--How to Hold a Needle Gracefully.--Iris Powder for Tresses.--Arts of Italian Women.--Depilatory used in Harems.--Spirit of Pyrêtre.--Herbs used by Greek Women.--Mexican Pomade.--Dusky Perfumed Marbles.--Lost Perfumes.--Sultanas’ Lotion.--Brilliant Paste for Neck and Arms.--Baking Enamel 134 CHAPTER XIV. The Last of the Rose.--Weighing in the Balances.--To Love and to be Loved.--The Enigma of Love.--Its Power over the Lot of Men.--Inspiration in the Looks.--The Land of Spring.--The Duchess of Devonshire.--Women at and after Thirty.--Training of Emotion.--Warming the Voice.--Crow’s-feet at the Opera.--Bohemian Arsenic Waters.--Recipe from Madame Vestris.--Milk of Roses.--Sweet-oils.--Opera-dancers’ Prescription for Restoring Suppleness 146 CHAPTER XV. The Fearful Malady of which no one Dies.--_Esprit Odontalgique._--Gray Pastilles.--Important to Smokers.--Mouth Perfumes.--Care of the Breath.--Directions for Bathing.--Perfumes for the Bath.--Bazin’s _Pâte_.--Quality of Soaps.--Bathing and Anointing the Feet.--Nicety of Stockings.--Delicate Shoe Linings.--Feet of Pauline Bonaparte 155 CHAPTER XVI. “The Leaves are Full of Joy.”--Nobility of the Body.--Its Possibilities.--Brain and Heart Dependent on it.--Physical Culture Imperative in America.--Our Contempt of Health.--Easier to be Magnificent than Clean.--Distilled Water for Every Use.--Substitute for Stills.--Vapor and Sulphur Baths.--Bran Baths.--Oatmeal for the Hands.--Frequency of Baths.--Remedies for Hepatic Spots 165 CHAPTER XVII.