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THE UGLY-GIRL PAPERS.
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.
For any woman, maid or matron, past youth, who hears the leaves begin to drop, and sees the roses curl in the warm summer of her life, this chapter is written. It is well that with the decay of bloom and outward charm there should be a lessening of feeling, an amiable indifference to the homage that youth covets eagerly. The woman of — who dares fill in the age? — the woman who finds the faint lines on her cheek and the pallor creeping to
