Peruvian powder was a standard dentifrice of the same date. It is made of white sugar, half a drachm; cream of tartar, one drachm; magnesia, ditto; cinnamon, six grains; mace, two grains; sulphate of quinine, three grains; carmine, five grains. Powder and mix carefully, adding four drops of the oils of rose and mint. The following cosmetic, called the _Serkis du Sérail_, is said to be a favorite lotion used by the Sultanas, for whom it is imported from Achaia--though this sounds more like one of those pleasant fictions which perfumers delight to invent concerning their oils and pomades than any thing we are obliged to believe. This may be said in favor of the assertion--it is such a mixture of starch and oils as no one but an odalisque could endure to use. It is made of sweet-almond paste, ten livres; rye and potato starch, each six livres; oil of jasmine, eight ounces; the same of oil of orange flowers and of roses; black balsam of Peru, six ounces; essence of rose and of cinnamon, each sixty grains. Mix the powders and essences separately in earthen vessels, then add the powder to the liquid little by little, bruise well together, and strain through muslin. An elegant preparation for whitening the face and neck is made of terebinth of Mecca, three grains; oil of sweet almonds, four ounces; spermaceti, two drachms; flour of zinc, one drachm; white wax, two drachms; rose-water, six drachms. Mix in a water-bath, and melt together. The harmless mineral white is fixed in the pomade, or what we would call cold cream, and is applied with the greatest ease and effect. It must be to some preparation of this subtle sort that the lustrous whiteness of certain much-admired fashionable complexions is due. It is a cheap enamel, without the supposed necessity of _baking_, which, by the way, is such a blunder that I wonder people of sense persist in speaking of it as if it could be a fact. 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.