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ONE OF THE UGLY GIRLS.
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CHAPTER XVIII.

  • A Letter.
  • Trials of a Plain Woman.
  • The Best Husband in the World.
  • Burdock Wash for the Hair.
  • For Children's Hair.
  • Oil of Mace as a Stimulant.
  • To Restore Color to the Hair.
  • Sperm-oil a Powerful Hair Restorer.
  • The Cheapest Hair-Dye.
  • Cure for Chilblains.
  • Loose Shoes the Cause of Corns.
  • Pyroligneous Acid for Corns.
  • Turpentine and Carbolic Acid for Soft Corns.

Among inquiries not seldom repeated is an urgent demand for a prescription to keep the hair from coming out. The following letter will be acceptable to many readers.

"I was emphatically one of the 'ugly girls,' being of a very large figure, and inheriting thin hair; otherwise I suited myself well enough. But oh! the agonies I have suffered through my personal deficiencies. Now, with a happy home of my own and the best husband in the world, I can smile at the old distress. Yet it was no less real, and I can pity the ugly girls as nobody but one who has 'been there' can.

"My hair began coming out when I was just in my teens, and has always been the trial of my life. I have been up