." When You Come to the End of a Perfect Day," by Dorothy Parker, was initially posted in the Nov 1917 issue of Vogue.For additional of the most effective coming from Vogue's older post, subscribe for our Fond memories bulletin here.It all started when I traversed the French gray limit of Mme. Claudine, charm specialist. Around that opportunity, I have consistently considered on my own happy. My lifestyle was but without care as well as woe, as well as I recognized nothing of the bitterness of work. However that is actually all around currently. I am going to never ever be the innocent gal that I was prior to Mme. Claudine, charm professional. entered my lifestyle. I may household pet over it, yet I should never ever be actually the same.You observe, I have constantly possessed a hoping to become beautiful. It was actually a real fascination along with me. As a result of having people state to me, in very early youth. "Do not you care-- good-looking is as beautiful does," or "Never you mind. dear, it isn't consistently a quite deal with that draws in the guys," I increased pretty harsh concerning things. I took every quite lady as an individual affront, and each time some abnormally stunning animal passed me, I murmured, resentfully, "' There, but for the poise of The lord, go I!" However, though I yearned with all my soul to be beautiful, I never took any sort of action regarding it. I failed to recognize exactly what to carry out. I realized that there were far a lot of lovely females within this world for charm to be a mere gift of nature, however I had no suggestion just how it was actually obtained,-- that is actually, I possessed no idea until I went to see Mme. Claudine. Mme. Claudine's mauve and also French pray beauty salon was a deceit-fully unbusinesslike area, sickening along with the smells of myriad creams as well as powders. Mme. Claudine herself was actually high and dark and remarkably coated, clad in a gray dress that appeared it had been actually placed on with a brush. She had a manner primarily at difference along with her appearances, for she was actually speedy as well as businesslike, and also she communicated volubly, in a very clear, rather loud voice.The Etceteras of BeautyWhen females quit desiring to be stunning, and Mme. Claudine is compelled to stop her service as a charm expert, one more contacting is actually awaiting her. She may end up being a broker for "The Lives and Letters of the Globe's Greatest Composers," in fourteen volumes thus unmistakable an ability I have actually never ever observed. In half a hr she had offered me even more creams, lotions, cleansing soaps, ointments, as well as devices than I had actually even understood existed. When the case containing all the write-ups was deposited in my hall that afternoon, I could certainly not believe that it secured my acquisitions. I presumed that some one had hoaxed me and also sent me a Ford.Mme. Claudine was actually absolutely nothing otherwise extensive. She ascribed a diet regimen checklist, rigidly leaving out everything flavorsome, she wrote a set of exercises, and she offered me a folio of directions concerning the precise use each help to charm that I had actually acquired. It seemed to be that the vital part of the procedure was that it should be administered in the evening, just before resigning. The final hr, prior to I went to sleep, was to be the busiest hr of the time. She gave me the feeling that every thing would certainly be actually spoiled if the rites were con- ducted by sunlight. It must all of be actually done in the evening,-- the exercises most be experienced, the lotions used, the creations to bring beauty nearer has to be actually donned. Those were her last words to me, "Always remember, in the evening, right before you go to bed.".