text:  Instead of making himself smart pretty becoming beautiful--or any other word that you can find in the dandy's dictionary--he frequently succeeds in making himself positively ugly--frightful in the pure abstract sense of the term--or detestable in the lingo of the Stultzean tribe--and relapses as a Frenchman would say from civism to brutism: _Ah! quel animal que l'homme!_ But let it not be supposed that we speak of man only as applied to that great branch of the species designated by the most experienced naturalists as _homo vir_; it is quite as true of the other moiety the _homo femina_