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As fields you find with various flowers o'erspread,

When vineyards bud and Winter's frost is fled.

So various are the colours, you may try

Of which the thirsty wool imbibes the dye.

Try everyone, what best becomes you wear,

For no complexion all alike can bear."

Here end our remarks on dress and its relation to the body, anatomically, physiologically, and socially considered. We have gone over a wide field, and taken note of the most of the important phenomena which lie at the base of "Health and Beauty." Our object has been to set down that which is really useful to be known by our fair countrywomen, who are without rivals in all that makes women adorable. We were ambitious to say something worth remembering to those who adorn the present generation by their virtue and beauty, and who are destined to be the mothers of those who shall bear up the ark of England's greatness, when those who bore them shall have passed away.

"Go now, my little book; from this my solitude
I cast thee on the waters. Go thy way;
And if, as I believe, the vein be good,
Thou shalt be found again ere many a day."