The next few days he spent dusting, cleaning and cooking in his work clothes; in the evenings he would dress up in formal evening wear or some other nice cos- tume, and eat the dinner he had had cooking during the day, sometimes eating by candlelight.

One morning he woke up to a beautiful spring day-- warm sunshine, balmy air, singing birds--which made him feel glad to be alive, and gave him an idea. He quickly ate, dressed in "shopping" clothes and drove to "his" department store. There he selected a wardrobe of sports clothes, sunsuits, shorts, halters, swimsuits, and also picked up several bottles of suntan lotion, and a tennis racquet and several tennis balls.

Returning to his apartment he put on a tennis cos- tume with pretty lacy panties and spent a happy hour in the courtyard, hitting tennis balls against the wall. When he was out of breath from so much exertion, he showered, rubbed suntan lotion on his body, donned a sunsuit, and stretched himself out in the sun in the courtyard. He dozed away the entire afternoon, and every day after this he spent some time sunning him- self, acquiring a nice tan.

He found a book on feminine beauty care, and be- gan to spend an hour or so each day on the care of his nails, face, hair, skin. His beard had never been heavy, so he kept the whiskers plucked out along with plucking his eyebrows. He practiced a bust developing exercise recommended in the book, which did seem to help a little. He laid in a good supply of beauty aids, as cleansing creams, cosmetics, home permanents (to use when his hair became longer), manicure sets, etc.

He wore cotton gloves to protect his hands and nails when he was handling heavy material and rubber gloves when he washed dishes. His complexion became clear and his skin soft and lovely.

He filled the swimming pool in the backyard and went swimming every day, combining this with his sun- bathing. The tan he acquired by doing this gave him much pleasure as he looked at his figure in the full length mirror while dressing. He could see the creamy white skin begin where the tan ended at his swimsuit

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