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To be sure, there are those striped Joseph's- 

 coats one meets at the sea-side, appropriately 

 termed "blazers," which woman openly pro- 

 fesses to admire, only to contrast tHem inward- 

 ly with the sea-side habiliments of her own hu- 

 man form divine. Even her blue bathing-dress 

 she has deliberately pirated from the sailor of 

 the high seas, and pilfered the crowning charac- 

 teristic that proclaims man a man the stove- 

 pipe hat. 



Let those of the sterner sex who love the 

 delicate aroma of a flower not hesitate to use 

 its essence when distilled by an Atkinson, if the 

 flower itself can not be had to take its place on 

 the lapel. Does not Dumas pere, in the " Vi- 

 comte de Bragelonne," speak of the Bishop of 

 Vannes as exhaling " that delicate perfume 

 which, with elegant men and women of the 

 grand world, never changes, seeming to be in- 

 corporated in the person of which it has become 

 the natural emanation " ? Another case where 

 they manage these things better in France. It 

 is well known, moreover, that flower-essences 

 are prophylactic and antiseptic the more reason 

 why they should be employed, in moderation, and 

 that their use be not monopolized by woman. 

 " There are perfumes," says Gautier, " which 

 are fresh as the skin of a child, green as spring 

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