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THE CURTAIN RAISED.

WOMAN, LOVE, AND MARRIAGE; FEMALE BEAUTY AND POWER; THE ARTS OF THEIR ATTAINMENT,

CULTURE, AND RETENTION.

THE SEQUEL TO "LOVE AND ITS HIDDEN HISTORY."

women are beautiful! There may be those whose form and features are neither classical nor graceful, yet not one but deep in whose heart and soul exists a diamond-mine of love, tenderness, goodness, truth, and beauty! Every woman has a right to be loved, just as it is her nature to shower affection on whoever really touches her heart. All woman are love incarnate, but foolish men don't know it.

"What is life without love? What is love but the fulfilment of this earthly section of the unknown, undreamed of, unfathomable human destiny? The Rosicrucians say that "Love lieth at the foundation" of all things; certain it is that it underlies and subtends everything with which we are acquainted; and wretched indeed are they who know not of its wealth and power, its bitter and its honeyed sweet. There never was anything achieved worth the doing unless love was the spur. Herein I purpose to write a hand-book for women, — for those who desire to cultivate genuine affection, and the beauty and fascination that are its legitimate accompaniments.