where and why so many of them had failed.

With renewed ardor Saxon devoted herself to her household, to her
pretties, and to her charms. She marketed with a keener desire
for the best, though never ignoring the need for economy. From
the women's pages of the Sunday supplements, and from the women's
magazines in the free reading room two blocks away, she gleaned
many ideas for the preservation of her looks. In a systematic way
she exercised the various parts of her body, and a certain period
of time each day she employed in facial exercises and massage for
the purpose of retaining the roundness and freshness, and
firmness and color. Billy did not know. These intimacies of the
toilette were not for him. The results, only, were his. She drew
books from the Carnegie Library and studied physiology and
hygiene, and learned a myriad of things about herself and the
ways of woman's health that she had never been taught by Sarah,
the women of the orphan asylum, nor by Mrs. Cady.

After long debate she subscribed to a woman's magazine, the
patterns and lessons of which she decided were the best suited to
her taste and purse. The other woman's magazines she had access
to in the free reading room, and more than one pattern of lace
and embroidery she copied by means of tracing paper. Before the
lingerie windows of the uptown shops she often stood and studied;
nor was she above taking advantage, when small purchases were
made, of looking over the goods at the hand-embroidered underwear
counters. Once, she even considered taking up with hand-painted
china, but gave over the idea when she learned its expensiveness.

She slowly replaced all her simple maiden underlinen with