CHAPTER XXI.

Devices of Uneasy Age.--Bread Paste and Court-plaster to Conceal Wrinkles.--Accepting the Situation.--Plain Women and Agreeable Toilets.--Examples.--The Rector’s Daughter.--Dressing on Two Hundred a Year.--Écru Linen and White Nansook.--A Senator’s Wife.--A Washington Success.--Dull, Thin Faces.--Hay-colored Hair.--Advantages of Lining Rooms with Mirrors 212