THE LADIES' FRIEND.

ON TASTE IN FEMALE DRESS.
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r F"Dress is the natural finish of beauty. With
out dress, a handsome women is gem that is not
set."


am an old man now, but I have loved
the ladies dearly all the days of my life !;
and, though "the high blood' no longer runs
"trolic through my yeins''-though the frost
OF age has "silvered DER my head"-my at
tachment to the better sex remains pure
and undiminished, and thank heaven, my
perception of physical and moral beauty is
still in its meridian power. / look back up
on the years Of my youth, upon the prime