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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
B UGLOSS. 
FALSEHOOD. 
A celebrated French moralist has observed, that if 
women were naturally what they become by artificial 
means, if they were to lose in a moment all the 
freshness of their complexion, and their faces were 
to be as flaring and as leaden as they make them 
with rouge and fard, they would go distracted. 
Incontestible as this truth appears, it is equally 
true that, from north to south, and from east to west, 
among savage nations and civilized nations, a fond¬ 
ness for using artificial means of improving the com¬ 
plexion universally prevails. The wandering Arab, 
the sedentary Turk, the Persian beauty, the small¬ 
footed Chinese, the phlegmatic Russian, the indolent 
Creole, and the light and vivacious French woman, 
all desire to please, and all resort to some kind of 
cosmetics. 
