CHAPTER XII.. Removal of Superfluous Hair.--Effects of High Living.--Work of

Removal of Superfluous Hair.--Effects of High Living.--Work of Typhoid Fever.--Roman Tweezers.--Lola Montez’s Recipes.--Paste of Wood-ashes.--Bleaching Arms with Chloride.--Cautions about Depilatories.--Public Baths.--Improving Complexions by the Sulphur Vapor-bath.--How Arabian Women Perfume Themselves.--Profuse Hair, Sign of Nature’s Bounty 125