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She used them daily . Also she bathed , massaged , exercised , took facial and electric treatments ; worked like a slave ; lived like an athlete in training in order to preserve her hair , skin , teeth , and figure ; almost never ate what she wanted nor as much as she liked . That earlier lady of the closed casement and the white rose probably never even heard of a dentifrice or a cold shower . The result of Harrietta 's rigours was that now , at thirty-seven , she could pass for twenty-seven on Fifth Avenue at five o'clock -LRB- flesh-pink , single-mesh face veil -RRB- ; twenty-five at a small dinner -LRB- rose-coloured shades over the candles -RRB- , and twenty-two , easily , behind the amber footlights . You will have guessed that Harrietta , the Heroine , is none other than Harrietta Fuller , deftest of comediennes , whom you have seen in one or all of those slim little plays in which she has made a name but no money to speak of , being handicapped for the American stage by her intelligence and her humour sense , and , as she would tell you , by her very name itself . `` Harrietta Fuller ! Do n't you see what I mean ? ''