New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-30
THE UON1N BEAUTIFTER.

An advertisement to the effect that ladies could
be beautiied If not forever for bSSlul season Al
least, and that its treatment was " delightful,
balny and pleasant" prompted TRIBUNE reporter
to call on the advertiser at one of the
principal hotels. with view OF learning,
if possible how nature can be aided by
the appliances of art His card was answered
with I'll see him in just minute" The reporter
was seated III an ante-rOom where several women
were mpauently waiting for an audience with
the dispenser of youthful charms. The callers
were all beyond the budding period. One
of them was old enough 10 be studying decorative
art for the next world. She was an illustration of
the cynical remark that "the last sigh Of the
dying woman is not so muc for the loss OF life as
the loss of her beauty" Another woman who
future youthful appearance and beauty,
went ont of the room, saying; Pm
| living woman tomorrow Iii come back As the
weather indications were far and she seemed IN
good health, 1t is probable that she made another
call
The reporter was ushered into the presence of the
embalmcr. She was plainly and SIMPLY dressed IN
wblte-wbich added TO the beauty OF her smooth,
marOle-llke complexion. The reporter stated his
business and she began with
II have a great many callers-the majority are
ladies over thirty years OF age. but great many
old bachelors and young gentleme2 also come. The
Young men generally give a fictitious name; the
Old bachelors do not seem to be afraid of anything
give their right names. pay literally, and recon-
mend their acquaD tances TO come. A bachelor Ill
Boston gave me 500 10 take the wrinkles OUT OF his
face, when my charge is only S3 treatment"
How is tins effected, and does your treatment
| conceal age Il
yes; | can take a bachelor of fifty years, with
crows feet under his eyes, and III three or four
months the crows feet will he gone and he Will not
look to be over thirty. l treat the face week
this line white power Is rubbed into the wrinkles,
| and the agreeable change Is elected"
"Of course the same treatment is applied to la
90 yes the majority of the ladies come here to
have those hOrrld crows feet removed. Noting
worries a lady much as increasing signs OF aging
a
made even more so. The Improvement OF beauty ls
a aGdable desire, just the same as line dressing, and
ladies' should not censuTed iOr endeavOrIng TO
make themselves attractive. One lady came III
yesterday-she as pretty as she could
be. | frankly told her that she was pretty enough
and that | could not improve Icr. she went away
smiling, and seemed Just as dehghted as II had I'M
proved her complexion"
do the ladies express any fear when being
treated r
some wish to know whether the improvement
will be lasting, and ask thousand and one ques-
lions as TO the ultimate effects OF The Urea ment
assure them that use no cosmetics; nothing
that viii lbjuTe the skin or the heath !;
and so eager are they TO have their compilations
improved, that believe they would run The risk of
losing what beauty they possessed, had my pTepdra-
tons such effect. But such Is not the case
DO use my own treatment Yes; once had
fTeckles my forehead. DO you any there
now put preparation that took the outer
skin Off, and when It grew over the Ireckles were
gone mad TO remain the house three tour days
and dld nothing but walk, WIIngn9 my hands II
agony. " nat Will woman not suffer Tor her OeautyT
IneIe being no answer, she con tlnued: lhefe Ii
nothing OF any value gained i'll tins world without
laboIIng and suffering, and as beauty Is wOmans
chief distinction sne values 1t above other
gifts OF Nature, and will use all possible arts
10 enhance or make 1t durable. DO you know
more than half OF our physicians owe their
success to cosmetic wash for the
complexion. more than TO their skill or incidence
do not say that cosmetics are Ill every case luJur-
Gus TO he complexion, Yet feel positive that
are applications scientific principles, that
might De used beneicially, thus dlscardlng all art
1cIal means"
At TINS moment a card was handed to Mile. Marie,
and she smiled patrouiZngly she SAID: In a
moment" he reporter took III the smile and
situation at glance ana, with thanks for the inter
view, bowed himself from her presence.