Our rule, then, amounts to this, that economy of the sight in infancy and youth is the best guarantee of its strength in manhood and old age. Even in manhood and middle life, we should look forward to the period when the lustre of the eye will be dimmed with years, and endeavour to spare the sight from idle or unnecessary fatigue; or, if this has at any time happened, to take means, without delay, to restore it to vigour. Of all other means of refreshing the fatigued eye, sleep is the most powerful; and, when you have been exposed over night to the glare of gas, or the sparkling of gilded or crystal chandeliers, while, at the same time, you were robbed of several hours of your accustomed sleep, let no urgency of business (if you value your eyesight) tempt you to get out of bed till your eyes feel refreshed; and, if any stiffness or smarting remain, lave them and the forehead with the coldest soft water you can procure, or have some poured over your head from a pitcher. If the smarting still remains after this, accompanied with a redness or swelling, and a feeling as if sand had got within the eye-lids, you may try the following

ANODYNE EYE-WATER,

FOR

PARTY.

THE MORNING AFTER A

Put 40 drops of the sedative solution of opium* into

* Liquor opii Sedativus, to be had at Mr. Battley's, Forestreet, Cripplegate, London.

U

four ounces of elder-flower water, and add three drachms of the best acetated liquor of ammonia;

Mix, and dip into it a piece of fine linen, and apply it to the eye, allowing some of the water to get within the eye-lid, and it will soon relieve you from uneasiness. When this is not at hand, put two tea spoonfuls of brandy or laudanum into a wine glassful of water, and use it in the same way.

IV. THE BEAUTY OF THE MOUTH.

The mouth has been quaintly called the throne of smiles, and smiles are said to be all sisters; yet how little do they resemble each other! Some are simple, ingenuous, modest, and innocent; others are tender, winning, voluptuous, and, if we may trust report, some of them, at times, are rather more than this; others are lively, gay, petulant, or witty; and others, mischievous, satirical, or ironical. Of all these lovely companions of the lips, the half-smile is, by far, the most lovely. We take the liberty of bestowing this name upon the virgin smile, which shows itself with such timidity, which peeps forth with such grace, and which dares not completely expand itself,-the smile, if we may say so, which is not so much a smile as the desire of smiling. The half-smile is the charming symbol of innocence

and candour, the emblem of virtue and of pleasure, simple, natural, and unsophisticated.*

The full-formed smile, however, is but little inferior to its younger sister. Somewhat less retiring and timid, it speaks with more spirit to the heart, and, the expression being more complete, tends to make it, perhaps, still dearer to the admirers of beauty; somewhat less ingenuous, it is, perhaps, something less tender, and, if it detracts a tint from native innocence, it enhances delight. The smile is, indeed, one of the most powerful charms of beauty. Its language is most expressive; mute, indeed, but eloquent. It is by a smile that a bashful beauty approves an avowal which her tongue belies, but with which her heart is flattered. How many conquests have been made by a graceful smile!

May it not be is it not probable-that the poets and painters of antiquity found the model of Cupid's bow in the form of the female lip? Is not, indeed, the mouth of a handsome woman the most powerful weapon of that "mischievous boy," who, as has been observed by a lady of great wit, can subject the stronger sex to the dominion of the weaker? The lip is truly, then, the bow of Love; and, of all the arrows discharged by Cupid, the smile is, certainly,

* Encyclopédie des Dames.

the most mischievous, and particularly the one which Milton says,

"Loves to play in dimple sleek."

L'Allegro.

Such is the power of a smile; but we cannot, forbear remarking, that every thing, and even a smile, may be abused, from art being sometimes able to counterfeit nature. Those charming smiles, which grow spontaneously with such grace on the ruby lips of a youthful beauty, very often owe their existence to the combination of artifice. But how easy it is to distinguish the one from the other; for the sinile which is the offspring of art has not, and cannot have, the native grace, which can only be bestowed by the hand of nature. Take care, then, not to confound the lovely expression of feeling and of pleasure, with the mechanical and studied movements of a counterfeit face. As the plants cultivated beneath a bell never have the free and natural attitude of those which grow in the open air, so the smile which is the child of art never possesses the graces of its amiable model; the one is ingenuous love, which appears in all its charms; and the other a dangerous net, spread by a treacherous hand. Since, then, smiles are of so much impor

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tance to beauty, the lips, which are their chief instruments, must require the utmost care.

1. THE BEAUTY OF THE LIPS.

The colour of the lips,-the rich, fresh, ruby tint, so highly praised by poets, painters, and lovers, -depends chiefly on health, and we can almost insure it, without chance of disappointment, to those who attend to the rules for Beauty-Training, laid down above. As this is an all-powerful restorative of the healthy freshness and colour of the lips, we shall not take up your time with enumerating others of superior efficacy, but proceed to one of the most annoying affections to which the lips are subject;

we mean,

CHAPPING.

The very thin scarf-skin or cuticle, which has no more feeling than the hair or the nails, is but slightly united to the thick true skin or cutis, and is easily detached. When the scarf-skin is, therefore, shrivelled, and, consequently, raised from the true skin by either cold or heat, it can never be brought to unite again, and leaves the true skin, which is acutely sensible, quite bare, raw, and sore; and this soreness soon causes irritation and inflammation. This is the genuine history of chapping, which may happen either from the heats of summer or the cold of winter, and usually attacks the lips, the face,