I shall not pretend to determine." "It is not strange to me" says Boyle,
a good, sensible man, "that persons of the fairer sex should like, in
all things about them, that handsomeness for which they find themselves
most liked." Man reviles woman for her vanity. At the same time it is
the particular delight of the man who will himself wear no decoration to
load upon his willing wife the trinkets of his fancy as far as his purse
will pay for them. Without woman's almost savage love of display, man
would be robbed of nearly all the pleasure which