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Show Camouflage To attempt to discuss camouflage in all its applications in one brief article would be the height of folly. Consequently, I have taken one particular application and will try to vindicate camouflage as employed by the fair sex. All females are born with an inordinate desire to possess beauty that assemblage of graces or of properties which please the senses, which are no indication of sense, and which cost countless cents to maintain. Women desire to have every line of their forms in an agony of geometric symmetry ; to have their eyes such as make the orbs of heaven fade into utter insignificance; to have their faces fixed with such harmonizing hues that men are conquered by the hypnotic effect thereof, and cringe at their feet, begging for the privilege of being made miserable for life. In order to accomplish this, women employ camouflage of the highest and most perfected type. The camouflage of war is intended to ward off attack. The camouflage of woman is designed to hasten and augment the attack of pusilanamous masculinity. Woman employs a multitude of implements of curious workmanship,. in order to make her camouflage as effective as possible. Perhaps the most familiar, the oftenest used, and the one that causes the most grief when left at home, is the powder puff that wooly, circular, fluffy disc of odoriferous cosmetics ; that omnipresent tool, produced on shortest notice from its hiding place on most any portion of feminine anatomy ; that antidote for blushes, sallow complexion, or soiled countenance. The powder puff is used at any time |