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THE UGLY-GIRL PAPERS.
CHAPTER VI.
- Récamier's Training.
- Diana of Poitiers, Bath.
- High Beauty of Maturity.
- The Worth of Beauty.
- George Eliot on Complexions.
- Dr. Cazenave.
- Barley Paste for the Face.
- Prescriptions of the Roman Ladies.
- To Remove Pimples.
- Cascarilla Wash.
- Varnish for Wrinkles.
- Acetic Acid for Comedones.
- To Remove Mask.
- Lady Mary Montagu.
- Habit of Italian Ladies.
- Wash of Vitriol.
The motto that used to haunt our souls over copy-books, "No excellence without great labor," is as true about personal improvement as any thing else. Few celebrated beauties have gained their fame without use of those arts which must be the earliest of all, since we have no record of their first teaching—the arts of the toilette. Madame Récamier, who exercised more power by her beauty than any woman of modern times, was bred by a most careful mother, versed in all the mysteries of
