Salad for the solitary and the social: . ,„flIl11[illlll|nUi|:M. THE TOILETTE AND ITS DEVOTEES. Fair tresses mans imperial race ensnare,And beauty draws us with a single hair ! Pope. Woman was made exceedingly fair, a creature not onlyfitted for all the deference and homage our minds could be-stow, but obviously intended for the most elegant wardrobesand brilliants trousseaus our purses could furnish. But, how-ever we may fall short of om^ duty to the sex in this latter re-spect, let no woman, therefore, suppose that any man can bereally indifferent to her appearance. Of course, the immedi-ate
Salad for the solitary and the social: . ,„flIl11[illlll|nUi|:M. THE TOILETTE AND ITS DEVOTEES. Fair tresses mans imperial race ensnare,And beauty draws us with a single hair ! Pope. Woman was made exceedingly fair, a creature not onlyfitted for all the deference and homage our minds could be-stow, but obviously intended for the most elegant wardrobesand brilliants trousseaus our purses could furnish. But, how-ever we may fall short of om^ duty to the sex in this latter re-spect, let no woman, therefore, suppose that any man can bereally indifferent to her appearance. Of course, the immedi-ate effect of a well-chosen feminine toilet operates differently THE TOILETTE AND ITS DEVOTEES. in diiferent minds. In some it causes a sense of actual pleas-ure ; in others a consciousness of passive enjoyment. In someit is intensely felt while present; in others only missed whengone. N^one can deny its power over them, more or less ; or,for their own sakes, had better not be believed, if they do. * The intimate relations between womans beauty and hermirror rend
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