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To-day has been heaven!

There was a fauests and a United States Senator and a real author, a woman who has written books; but people brushed past the to the Opera! I shall sit in a box Mrs Van Da to the Opera!

Whenwith palms and flowers to decorate the house, I ran off to the Park I did al at laddest, most beautiful in the world; blessed, most blessed, most beautiful in the world!" and the "tap-tap" of horses' feet on the asphalt, the "b-r-r-r-rp" of the cable cars and the rattle of elevated trains kept ti with my joy

I know it's foolish; if I had been beautiful frorown up to think of it as a matter of course; if I had been used to the awe of ht even fancy that I would have preferred learning or wealth--for we all love e have not But now--it is so new, so s to think about when I could cal talk with Prof Darmstetter

"The experiment is not yet complete," he declared He had asked me to stay for--but that is a part of the secret which is to pass with this record from me to all women

"You are beautiful," he said; "mein Gott, yes! More beautiful t'an any ot'er voman since t'e appearance of man on eart' But perfectly beautiful? I do not know; I t'ink not yet Who can tell for v'at ultimate perfection Nature destined t'e human body? But we shall see T'at perfection you shall reach In a veek, a mont', t'ree mont's--I cannot tell Ve must vait and experiment and still vait, but success is assured--absolute success I shall gif it I do not know if t'e hu, but it is t'e highest present type, and it shall be ered and t'irsted, and towards v'ich slowly it has groped its vay; it shall be ht that illumined his yellorinkled face made rateful as I arateful--"