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 which seam the face of maturity are not those of years, but of passion, of chagrin, or of habitual contortion of the muscles. They can therefore be prevented, and when they are just beginning to show themselves, they can be diminished by a strong exertion of self-command.

In the artificial courts of the last century, and in certain circles of our day, it was and is the custom to plaster these inequalities with a sort of "enamel," a ridiculous and harmful usage, which can only be done at the expense of an injury to the skin, and, what is not less pardonable, it can inevitably be detected by an eye at all practised in cosmetic arts.