Ladies have to paint it, and powder it, and cosmetic it, and diet it with arsenic, and enamel it, and be always enticing it, and persuading it, and pestering it, and fussing at it, to make it beautiful; and they do not succeed.

But these efforts show what they think of the natural complexion, as distributed.
As distributed it needs these helps.

The complexion which they try to counterfeit is one which nature restricts to the few--to the very few.
To ninety-nine persons she gives a bad complexion, to the hundredth a good one.

The hundredth can keep it--how long?
Ten years, perhaps.
The advantage is with the Zulu, I think.

He starts with a beautiful complexion, and it will last him through.