." When You Come to the End of a Perfect Day," by Dorothy Parker, was initially released in the Nov 1917 issue of Vogue.For additional of the most effective from Vogue's older post, sign up for our Fond memories e-newsletter here.It all started when I traversed the French gray threshold of Mme. Claudine, appeal expert. Up to that time, I have actually constantly considered myself satisfied. My life was singularly without treatment and also sadness, as well as I recognized nothing of the anger of work. But that is all over right now. I will certainly never be the upright female that I was prior to Mme. Claudine, appeal expert. entered my life. I may dog over it, yet I shall certainly never be actually the same.You view, I have actually consistently had a hoping to be stunning. It was actually a real obsession along with me. Because of having folks state to me, in early young people. "Do not you look after-- beautiful is as beautiful carries out," or "Never you mind. dear, it isn't regularly a fairly deal with that brings in the guys," I developed very brutal concerning things. I took every fairly lady as a private affront, and each time some abnormally amazing animal passed me, I murmured, resentfully, "' There, but also for the elegance of The lord, go I!" Yet, though I wanted with all my soul to be wonderful, I never took any sort of action about it. I failed to know precisely what to perform. I recognized that there were actually much too many gorgeous girls in this particular world for beauty to be a plain present of nature, but I possessed no concept how it was actually obtained,-- that is, I possessed no idea till I visited Mme. Claudine. Mme. Claudine's mauve and also French pray hair salon was a deceit-fully unbusinesslike area, cloying along with the smells of myriad creams and also particles. Mme. Claudine herself was actually high and also sulky and exceptionally repainted, outfitted in a gray gown that looked as if it had actually been placed on along with a comb. She possessed a method primarily at variance along with her looks, for she was actually lively and also businesslike, and she spoke volubly, in a crystal clear, somewhat loud voice.The Extras of BeautyWhen girls quit would like to be beautiful, and also Mme. Claudine is obliged to discontinue her organization as an appeal specialist, yet another contacting is actually awaiting her. She can come to be an agent for "The Lifestyles and Characters of the Globe's Greatest Composers," in fourteen quantities thus apparent a skill I have actually certainly never observed. Asunder a hr she had sold me even more lotions, lotions, soaps, salves, and devices than I had also understood existed. When the case having all the write-ups was actually deposited in my venue that mid-day, I could certainly not feel that it kept my investments. I thought that some one had actually hoaxed me and also sent me a Ford.Mme. Claudine was actually nothing or even comprehensive. She put down a diet regimen checklist, strictly excluding whatever flavorsome, she created a set of workouts, as well as she provided me a folio of guidelines concerning the particular use of each assistance to charm that I had actually obtained. It appeared that the essential part of the treatment was that it needs to be applied in the evening, prior to resigning. The final hr, just before I went to sleep, was to become the busiest hr of the time. She provided me the perception that every little thing would be actually destroyed if the ceremonies were con- ducted through sunshine. It should all be carried out at night,-- the physical exercises very most be undergone, the lotions administered, the creations to take beauty nearer needs to be actually donned. Those were her last words to me, "Keep in mind, during the night, right before you go to sleep.".