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THE UGLY-GIRL PAPERS.
CHAPTER XXI.
- Devices of Uneasy Age.
- Bread Paste and Court-plaster to Conceal Wrinkles.
- Accepting the Situation.
- Plain Women and Agreeable Toilets.
- Examples.
- The Rector's Daughter.
- Dressing on Two Hundred a Year.
- Écru Linen and White Nansook.
- A Senator's Wife.
- A Washington Success.
- Dull, Thin Faces.
- Hay-colored Hair.
- Advantages of Lining Rooms with Mirrors.
Did you ever go to see a lady, not of uncertain but of uneasy age, and find yourself ushered into the family sitting-room by a new servant, who did not know the ways of the house? Did you find her with a court-plaster lozenge an inch wide between her eyes, and one at the onter ends of her eyebrows? At sight of this remarkable ornament, did concern express itself lest she had fallen down stairs, or had a difference with the cat? Were these insinuations parried with veteran resources, and were yon dissuaded from further
