." When You Come to the End of a Perfect Day," by Dorothy Parker, was actually posted in the Nov 1917 concern of Vogue.For more of the best coming from Vogue's store, join our Nostalgia newsletter here.It all started when I went across the French grey threshold of Mme. Claudine, charm professional. As much as that opportunity, I have actually always considered on my own happy. My life was primarily without care and also woe, and also I knew nothing at all of the bitterness of work. But that is all over right now. I will certainly never be actually the innocent female that I was actually just before Mme. Claudine, appeal professional. came into my lifestyle. I may pet dog over it, but I shall never ever be actually the same.You view, I have actually regularly possessed a yearning to become gorgeous. It was actually a real fascination with me. As a result of possessing folks mention to me, in early youth. "Don't you care-- handsome is as handsome does," or "Certainly never you mind. dear, it isn't regularly a fairly face that draws in the men," I increased quite bitter concerning things. I took every rather girl as an individual affront, and also every time some unusually stunning animal passed me, I murmured, resentfully, "' There, but also for the grace of God, go I!" Yet, though I yearned along with all my heart to be attractive, I certainly never took any activity about it. I didn't understand specifically what to do. I understood that there were actually far a lot of attractive girls within this planet for elegance to become a mere gift of attributes, yet I possessed no suggestion how it was actually obtained,-- that is actually, I possessed no suggestion till I visited Mme. Claudine. Mme. Claudine's mauve and also French pray hair salon was a deceit-fully unbusinesslike spot, sickening with the odours of myriad creams and particles. Mme. Claudine herself was tall and also sulky and also superbly painted, clad in a grey garment that seemed it had actually been actually put on along with a brush. She possessed a fashion primarily at difference along with her appeals, for she was actually lively and also professional, and also she talked volubly, in a very clear, instead loud voice.The Etc of BeautyWhen ladies cease wishing to be actually beautiful, as well as Mme. Claudine is pushed to stop her company as a beauty specialist, an additional getting in touch with is actually awaiting her. She may end up being a broker for "The Lifestyles and also Letters of the Planet's Greatest Composers," in fourteen volumes thus unmistakable a talent I have certainly never seen. Asunder an hour she had marketed me more creams, ointments, soaps, salves, as well as home appliances than I had actually even recognized existed. When the case including all the posts was actually transferred in my venue that afternoon, I could not strongly believe that it kept my investments. I presumed that some one had played a joke on me as well as delivered me a Ford.Mme. Claudine was absolutely nothing otherwise complete. She ascribed a diet plan checklist, rigidly omitting every thing tasty, she wrote a series of physical exercises, as well as she provided me a folio of guidelines in order to the exact use of each aid to charm that I had actually obtained. It appeared that the fundamental part of the procedure was that it has to be actually applied in the evening, just before resigning. The last hour, prior to I went to bed, was to become the busiest hour of the day. She offered me the opinion that whatever would certainly be actually destroyed if the rites were con- ducted through daytime. It has to all be performed in the evening,-- the physical exercises very most be undergone, the creams applied, the contrivances to carry appeal nearer has to be put on. Those were her last words to me, "Don't forget, in the evening, right before you go to bed.".