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38 In the article of dres may be included the whole tribe of beauty-wahes, cometics, Olympian dew, oriental herbs, liquid bloom, and the paint which enlivened Ninon’s face, and bid defiance to time. Thee numerous and eential articles are advertied in o ridiculous a tyle that the rapid ale of them is a very evere reflection on the undertanding of thoe females who encourage it. The dew and herbs, I imagine, are very harmles, but I do not know whether the ame may be aid of the paint. White is certainly very prejudicial to the health, and never can be made to reemble nature. The red, too, takes