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Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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too, with the waist. For some fashions it is better to have it just
a foot from the neck. At other times it is more useful lower down.
The lady will kindly think over these details and let the professor
know. While one is about it, one may as well make a sound job.

It is all so simple, and, when you come to think of it, really not
expensive. Age, apparently, makes no difference. A woman is as old
as she looks. In future, I take it, there will be no ladies over
five-and-twenty. Wrinkles! Why any lady should still persist in
wearing them is a mystery to me. With a moderate amount of care any
middle-class woman could save enough out of the housekeeping money in
a month to get rid of every one of them. Grey hair! Well, of
course, if you cling to grey hair, there is no more to be said. But
to ladies who would just as soon have rich wavy-brown or a delicate
shade of gold, I would point out that there are one hundred and
forty-seven inexpensive lotions on the market, any one of which,
rubbed gently into the head with a tooth-brush (not too hard) just
before going to bed will, to use a colloquialism, do the trick.

Are you too stout, or are you too thin? All you have to do is to say
which, and enclose stamps. But do not make a mistake and send for
the wrong recipe. If you are already too thin, you might in
consequence suddenly disappear before you found out your mistake.
One very stout lady I knew worked at herself for eighteen months and
got stouter every day. This discouraged her so much that she gave up
trying. No doubt she had made a muddle and had sent for the wrong
bottle, but she would not listen to further advice. She said she was
tired of the whole thing.

In future years there will be no need for a young man to look about
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