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 your face, perhaps she touches up your eyebrows, and smooths you down generally, and you go out looking so fit that every one remarks on your appearance."

Whose customers, think you, are the better advertisers for the masseuse's skill? It takes but a few minutes to groom your patient, and you have her bound by your chains. Just such little things as these make for success.

While the primary virtue of massage is giving forth strength and relief from pain, the facial masseuse must make her patients feel "better-looking." She must take a vital interest in the appearance of each patient and must not hesitate to suggest in a tactful way what would improve the customer's appearance.

Another important point for the house-to-house masseuse to observe is orderliness. Unless her customer has plenty of servants, the masseuse heats the water needed for steaming the face and waits upon herself. When the treatment is over, she should put the basins, tea-kettle, towels, etc., in their right places, and straighten up the toilet table. It is the work of only a few moments to stretch the wet towels and cloths to dry in the bathroom, to put the tea-kettle or basin in place, and to cover the cold-cream jar and powder-box, while the customer is enjoying the restful effects of her treatment. When that customer must pick up