THE QUEST OF BEAUTY.Vfeal Omm Wmmmm Safcrci Fw th«, IMihit mi Hmw ApwmmwmmmmlTou must suffer to be beautiful according to a French saying. Tharo-teems to be some truth In the state* ■sent, If a lady's maid In to bo bo I ley ad. She has revealed the secrets of her mistress' boudoir, or, rather, torture chamber. Thu lady herself Is now beautiful, but one wonders that she Is still alive. For months she lay Hat on her back oil the floor, motionless, with her arms close to her sides, during ser-eral hours every day. This was, It appears,* to Improve her figure. During tho rest of the day, for the same period of time, she sat on :i high stool, giving and rocking the upper part of her body backward and forward and from aideto side unceasingly. By this process sho is said to have acquired a statuesque throat and a sylph’s waist. The lady's nose, having a soaring nature, was corrected and made Grecian by the constant application day and night for months of a spring bandage. One nostril was originally larger than the other, so she wore a small sponge in it for a year Her cheeks huvo been filled out a ltd rounded by Injections of paraffin. Her eprs for months were compressed a gal us I; the shies of lier bend by springs, while heavy weight* were attached to the lobcn to produce the required elongated shape, which 1ms been successfully achieved. If»* lug suffered this complicated martyr doni for a year, the lady, as already' stated, Is now beautiful.—Baris letter.