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BUGLOSS. 
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. 
Incontestable as this truth appears, it is 
equally true that, from north to south and from 
east to west, among savage nations and civi- 
lized nations, a fondness for using artificial 
means of improving the complexion 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 




