The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-02
Improving on Nature.

A handsome woman. elegantly
dressed, entered Broadway car il
which reporter was riding recently
and Immediately, but unconsciOuslv
diverted the attention of a dappcr lit
tie man who sat staring out of coun.
tenance all the other ladies in the car
The little man, who looked like some
thing between hairdresser and mid
dle-aged beau. drew a notebook from
his pocket, and, after making a slight
sketch of the face of the lady who had
just entered the car, said to the re-
porter: "Fine woman, that"
The reporter could not but agree
with him.
"What do you think is her special
charm?" asked the little man.
The reporter thought it might be q
sort of 81 don't know whatness," a
combination Of chic and dignity, her
| graceful bearing, her good clothes.
81 was speaking of her face purely
and simply" interrupted the little
man. "Do you notice how complete
ly her face is in resposc?'
The reporter thought the lady was
very pretty when she smiled, and that
her face was as dimpled as that of q
baby or q Vatican shephertless.
"Those dimples are her particular
charln," said the little man. "She is
handsome without them, beautiful
with them. In five years from to-day
perhaps before that-when my
method becomes known, New York
city be filled with women who,
having been plain, become pretty,
having been pretty become handsome,
having been handsome become beauti-
full"
"Oh, then, you are sort of a"
began the reporter. The little man
handed him card. 1t bore simply
the words: "Prof. A. Verroni, No. IL
DatfOdil place." "That is my name
and address" said he. "By profession
l am surgeon, graduate of the school
of Medicine, Paris. l am specialist
however, like many of the eminent
would say like many physicians and
surgeons of the present time, and my
speciality is to place dimples in the
faces OF those to whom nature has de-
can get up a six-inch smile without
doing anything further than put their
mouths in parehthesis, and others
laugh as if they had dimples in their
upper gums, but those, delicate ex-
prcssive little hollows that YOU see in
the cheeks are called up by the slight
est movement of the lips of those who
possess them and speak volumes
whole libraries"
The reporter suggested that he
would be obliged to the professor If
he would tell him what dimple
was.
"Well, sir" said Professor Verroni,
ga dimple-a natural dimple, that is
is simply slight hollow between
two muscles or over a muscle, and the
skin is more firmly attached to the
subjacent tissues at this point than at
other points. Hence, when the mus
cles contract as in the act OF smiling,
the skin is drawn down into the hoI- |
low, forming a dimple, that beauti-
full"
YES" said the reporter, "but how
do You make them?"
81 make puncture in the skin at the |
point where the dimple is required"
answered the professor, ga puncture
that cannot be noticed when it has
healed, and with very delicate in
strument l remove q small portion of
the muscle. Then l excite slight in
which attaches the skin to
the subcutaneous hollow l have torm-
I'd. In few days the wound-if
it may be called-has healed
md charming dimple is the result"
"How many times have you per.
formed this operation?" asked the re-
porter.
MANY times in France" answered
,he professor, "never yet i'll America.
Tomorrow L begin operating on sew
,ral actresses who wish dimples on
heir faces, shoulders, arms, and-yes,
houlders and arms"
'Herc's my street, Professor. Good