The Coming of the Dawn 



"My dear girl, do you imagine 

 I brought you four thousand miles to 

 this famous place merely that you 

 might adjust your bangs here in these 

 Sistine Chapel mirrors?" 



Needless to say, Billy came to her 

 rescue, even as Biddy rushes to the 

 defense of an assaulted chick, and I 

 was duly humbled. I have always be- 

 lieved, and believe now, that they were 

 both doing the same thing. In fact, 

 I will go further and assert it as my 

 opinion that fully fifty per cent of the 

 female visitors in the chapel that day — 

 and probably every other day before 

 and since — only need powder puffs, 

 furnished by the guides, along with 

 the hand mirrors, to convert the Sistine 

 Chapel into a popular beauty shop. 



Well, anyhow, to see the Aurora's 

 glowing glories you perforce must use 

 a mirror. It is the one painting in 

 Europe I should like to own and have 

 under my own roof, but there is at 

 least one reason why that is scarcely a 

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