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Show 18 The Dixie Owl, St. Ceorce, Utah or place when its possessor feels that she is not receiving due attention, or when she wishes to extract, from some admirer, a flattering remark about her complex- ion. Although most of the other paraphernalia employed in effecting womans camouflage are less frequently seen in public; nevertheless they are subtly carrying on their cunning work of deception, and doing for woman what nature failed to do, causing her to appear what she is not. Not only is this true of those ingredients which give to the cheeks their radient hue ; those which give that patrician, aristocratic appearance to the few straggling hairs left after plucking the eyebrows ; or those which give the lips their strawberry imitation ; but it is also true of those instruments, and that equipment, that give the symmetric contour to the shapeless bundles of idiosyncratic femininity. It is this equipment that makes it necessary to modify the old adage so as to make it read, Figures dont lie, except in the case of women. My friends, from the flowing, unctuous, and equivocal phrases that have emanated from my colossal cerebral dome, you probably think that I am discrediting these makers of artificial beauty, and speaking disparagingly of those delicate creatures whose utmost desire is to camouflage credulous masculinity. But my friends, woman is justified in doing as she does. It is every womans prerogative, her birthright, to make some deluded wretch suffer all the agonies concurrent with matrimony. She could never have that privilege, if before marriage she appeared before him as she is without the application of artificial beautifiers. Compare the lily of the valley or the gorgeous sunflower on the mountain top, with their unsightly stems stripped of petals and perfume. Compare the verdant hills of spring, the haven of the beasts and birds when every gulch and crag is covered with fragrant grass and flowers, with the barren wastes of autumn. Compare the trees of summer, when every twig and branch is decked with leaves, forming |