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CHAPTER IX.
- Hope for Homely People.
- Two Vital Charms.
- The Way to Live.
- Sunrise and Open Air.
- Bleached by the Dawn.
- Live at Sunny Windows.
- In Balconies and Parks.
- Christiana's Breakfast.
- Brown Steak and Good-humor.
- True Bread.
- Device for Stiff Shoulders.
- Corsets and Girdles.
- The Latter more Needed.
- How to be Pleased with One's Self.
Is there such a being as a hopelessly homely woman? In the light of modern appliances, study the faces and figures one meets on a journey from the sea-board to the interior, and confess that there are few fatally ugly women. On the railway I often amuse myself, in default of better things, by considering how hygiene, cosmetics, and good taste in dress would transform the common-looking women about one into charming and even striking personages. In most of them, all that is wanting is strength of expression and a clear
