t from him directions for taking
both, and take strictly according to his directions. In a very short
time you will again be fair and rosy and your eyes bright and
sparkling; in fact, you will seem to have renewed your youth, and,
indeed, you will feel like another person, so light-hearted will you
become, in addition to your return of beauty.

THE HAIR.

=Its Estimation, Structure, Growth, Management, Etc.=--The hair is not
only invaluable as a protective covering of the head, but it gives a
finish and imparts unequalled grace to the features which it
surrounds. Sculptors and painters have bestowed on its representation
their highest skill and care, and its description and praises have
been sung in the sweetest lays by the poets of all ages. Whether in
flowing ringlets, chaste and simple bands, or graceful braids
artistically disposed, it is equally charming, and clothes with
fascination even the simplest forms of beauty.

O wondrous, wondrous, is her hair!
A braided wealth of golden brown,
That drops on neck and temples bare.

If there is one point more than another on which the tastes of mankind
appear to agree, it is that rich, luxuriant, flowing hair is not
merely beautiful in itself, but an important, nay, an essential,
auxiliary to the highest development of the personal charms. Among all
the refined nations of antiquity, as in all time since, the care,
arrangement and decoration of the hair formed a prominent and
generally leading portion of their toilet. The ancient Egyptians and
Assyrians, and other Eastern nations, bestowed on it the most
elaborate attention. The ancient Jews, like their modern descendants,
were noted for the luxuriance and richness of their hair and the care
which they devoted to it. Glossy flowing black hair is represented to
have been the glory of the ancient Jewess, and in her person to have
exhibited charms of the most imposing character; whilst the chasteness
of its arrangement was only equalled by its almost magic beauty. Nor
was this luxuriance, and this attention to the hair, confined to the
gentler sex, for among the pagan Orientals the hair and beards of the
males were not less sedulously attended to. Among the males of Judah
and Israel, long flowing ringlets appear to have been regarded as
highly desirable and attractive. The reputed beauty and the prodigious
length and weight of the hair of Absalom, the son of David, as
recorded