Hands and Complexions.--Preparing for Parties.--Refining Rough Faces.--Carbolic Baths.--Chalk and Cascarilla.--Glycerine Wash.--School-girls’ Flushed Hands and Faces.--To Soften the Hands.--Red Noses.--Secrets of Making-up.--Cologne for the Eyes.--Cosmetic Gloves.--To Impart a Brilliant Complexion 238 CHAPTER XXIV. Women’s Looks and Nerves.--A Low-toned Generation.--Children and their Ways.--Brief Madness.--Women in the Woods.--Singing.--Work well done the Easiest.--Sleep the Remedy for Temper.--Hours for Sleep.--The Great Medicines--Sunshine, Music, Work, and Sleep 247 CHAPTER XXV. Changing Wigs and Chignons.--Matching Braids.--Frizzing the Hair.--Crimping-pins.--Blonde Hair-pins.--What Colors Hair.--Bleaching Tresses.--Sulphur Paste.--Foxy Locks.--Freshening Switches 257 CHAPTER XXVI. Hair and Complexion.--Black Dyes.--Persian Blue-Black.--Peroxide of Hydrogen.--Chloride of Gold.--Transient Dyes 267 THE UGLY-GIRL PAPERS. 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. The first requisite in a woman toward pleasing others is that she should be pleased with herself. In no other way can she attain that self-poise, that satisfaction, which leaves her at liberty to devote herself successfully to others. I appeal to the ugly sisterhood to know if this is not so. Could a woman be made to believe herself beautiful, it would go far toward making her so. Those hopeless, shrinking souls, alive with devotion and imagination, with hearts as fit to make passionate and worshiped lovers, or steadfast and inspiring heroines, as the fairest Venus of the sex, need not for an instant believe there is no alleviation for their case, no chance of making face and figure more attractive and truer exponents of the spirit within.