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 Thirdly, let her profit by the lessons she has learned in this book about the removal of blemishes on the face of beauty. Let unsightly warts and scars be done away with, let hairs which injure the appearance be destroyed, the complexion and hair be cultivated in accordance with the principles we have laid down, the form developed, diminished, or increased by those hygienic, emotional, and dietetic rules we have given, the features and organs of special sense subjected, if need be, to the training and the modification of the surgeon, and the general health improved under the advice of an intelligent physician, the teeth, voice, and even the nails attended to, and in fine those numerous cares of toilet observed which are by this time familiar to the reader.

If she has done all this, there will be little need for the purely venal cosmetic arts, such as paint, powder, patches, or rouge. She will discover that without any excessive trouble, or inordinate expense of time or money—with a very moderate expenditure of either, indeed—her natural charms are enhanced tenfold, and just in the same proportion will she have augmented that admiration, and attracted that solid esteem which make life pleasant. She will learn that health and beauty are so nearly synonymous that one cannot have the latter without possessing the former, and therefore that in the endeavor to acquire comeliness she is also on the road to sound mental and physical health.