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prepared for the face; and it is also said to possess 

 considerable advantages over other kinds of rouge, 

 as it lasts some days without rubbing off, and water 

 renews it in a similar manner as it refreshes the na- 

 tural colour. We are further assured that it does 

 not wither the skin so much as other kinds of rouge ; 

 but we w^ould add, that all kinds of paint for the 

 face are dangerous, for, however delicately it may 

 be used in the first instance, it is sure to increase, 

 although imperceptibly to the wearer, until it be- 

 comes a perfect mask. We have remembered se- 

 veral ladies^ who, from having been accustomed to 

 the use of rouge from an early age, increased the 

 colour from year to year, until their cheeks were 

 but a few degrees behind those of Grimaldi in a 

 Christmas pantomime. Some years back we wished 

 to pay our respects to a lady of rank on the day of 

 her arrival at a sea-side hotel, where, on inquiring 



for Lady Sarah C , we were asked if it w as the 



lady with a striped face. The question would 

 have been an enigma, had not a door opened at that 

 moment, which presented Lady Sarah with her 

 cheeks as regularly striped as the flanks of a zebra 

 hide, which had originated from her ladyship's 

 having rode the last stage in an open carriage, with 

 the rain beating in her face. This story will not 

 appear exaggerated, when we relate, that habit has 

 induced some people to take lavender-water as a 



