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Rh days; there should also be dressing days. From sandal to ringlet should undergo strict investigation; and a prize should be given to the best dressed. We should not then have our eyesight affronted by yellows and pinks, greens and blues, mingled together; we should be spared the rigidity of form too often attendant on a new dress; and no longer behold shawls hung on shoulders as if they were two pegs in a passage." "A frivolous employment you find, truly, for our sex!" "A frivolous employment! This comes of well-sounding morality shining in a sentence. Frivolous in an education devoted to attraction! No sonata will do so much execution as your aërial crêpe over delicate satin; and your cadences never produce half the effect of your curls." "But consider the time your system would require." "But consider the time really and truly given to the toilette. My system would require but half—for it would be judiciously employed." "You gentlemen have strange notions on these subjects; you have some visionary fancy