Take your baths, madame, in milk, or wine, or perfumed water; summon your masseuse, your beauty-doctor.

The planting of her firm black bulk in its chair, and the grasp of her broad red hands on the gilt arms, bespoke an organized and self-reliant activity, accounted for by the fact that Mrs. Heeny was a "society" manicure and masseuse.

" The ladies' faces drooped again, and the masseuse went on promptly: "

It'll be more sociable," the masseuse suggested, lifting her bag to the table and covering its shiny onyx surface with bottles and polishers.

Mrs. Spragg exclaimed, with a tragic emphasis that made the masseuse glance up at her.

" This solacing thought enabled Mrs. Spragg to yield herself unreservedly to Mrs. Heeny's ministrations, which were prolonged for a happy confidential hour; and she had just bidden the masseuse good-bye, and was restoring the rings to her fingers, when the door opened to admit her husband.

Undine waited till their adieux were over; then, opening her door, she seized the astonished masseuse and dragged her into the room.

Not all of her money couldn't 'a bought her thatand she knows it!" Undine stood for a moment with bright cheeks and parted lips; then she flung her soft arms about the masseuse.

She had not seen Mrs. Heeny for two days, and this friendly young man with the gentle manner was almost as easy to talk to as the masseuse.

Mrs. Heeny's clippings supplied her with such items as her own reading missed; and one day the masseuse appeared with a long article from the leading journal of Little Rock, describing the brilliant nuptials of Mabel Lipscombnow Mrs. Homer Branneyand her departure for "the Coast" in the bridegroom's private car.

Hitherto she had avoided the masseuse, as she did every one else associated with her past.

the masseuse exclaimed in her round rich tones.

The masseuse dropped into a chair and let the twist slip through her fat flexible fingers.

The masseuse must know where the pearls had come from, yet it had evidently not occurred to her that Mrs. Marvell was about to ask her to return them to their donor.

She kept Mrs. Heeny in Paris for a fortnight, and between her more pressing occupations it amused her to listen to the masseuse's New York gossip and her comments on the social organization of the old world.

His mother, alarmed by an insidious gain in weight, had brought the masseuse back from New York with her, and Mrs. Heeny, with her old black bag and waterproof, was established in one of the grand bedrooms lined with mirrors.

" It was by such deliverances that Mrs. Whitney posed, not without success, as an intellectual woman who despised the frivolities of a fashionable existencethis in face of the obvious fact that she led a fashionable existence, or, rather, it led her, from the moment her masseuse awakened her in the morning until her maid undressed her at night.

From July to October she walked two or three hours a day, heavily dressed, and had a woman especially to attend to her hair and complexion, in addition to the masseuse toiling to keep her cheeks and throat firm for the fight against wrinkles and loss of contour.

She had heard that he was on the Chicago expresshad heard it from her masseuse, who came each morning before she was up.

By EDITH M. TEMPLETON, Secretary of the Incorporated Society of Trained Masseuses IV.

On application to the secretary of the Incorporated Society of Trained Masseuses, information can be obtained with regard to the training schools in London and the Provinces where a course of instruction in massage is given, which is accepted by the society as adequate.

In this way all students have opportunity during their training of seeing and giving treatment to the various cases which they may have to deal with as qualified masseuses when working under private doctors.

In addition to supplying the independent examination in these subjects, the society watches over the interests of the masseuses.

The value of a thoroughly reliable society such as that mentioned cannot be over-estimated, not only for its certificate, but also on account of the information it can give as to the respectability of posts advertised for masseuses.

These included a masseuse, a manicurist, and a maid to look after the lapdogs.