Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-08-15
SUFFERING FOR GOOD LOOKS.
The Efforts to Get Rid Of Warts and Moles
ana the DangerOus Cnnsenuences

P,D.'J ."So' anu IcT tnat cnarm she
will risk life and defy death. When
the influence of a pretty face is taken
into consideration, it is not hard to
belleve that most any woman will do
anything and try everything to secure
1T. "A pretty face is fortune, and il
there is any possible chance of attain
ing the one or securing the other nine
women out OF every ten are willing to
take that chance. Not long ago IA
man from Barcelona established him
self in this city, and securing letters to
a few popular families, succeeded in
building up a reputation that gave
promise OF princely income. He
circulated among the wealthier classes
and treated women in their own pri-
vate apartments, and in less than a
month had collected $4,000. He did
little mischief, but the torture he SUBJ
mitted his freckled patients to would
have made him a valuable adjunct to
the Spanish inquisitors. One young
woman paid him S15 an hour for treat
ing the saucy little freckles that dot
ted her pretty nose. Mademoiselle
was tied in chair and her nose plug
ged up with bits of sponge saturated
with ether. When sufficiently stupe-
lied the man went to work with knife
and literally skinned her entire face.
A solution of diluted muriatic acid was
then applied to the raw surface and
the screams of the poor little fool
could be heard all over the house.
But mamma had decided on her little
girls success as debutante, and she
gave directions to have her under mar
cotics for couple of days.
The next step was to cut the brown
pigments right out of the flesh They
came out, too, and the face healed up.
but the young wOman's constitution
had been completely undermined, and
neither doctor nor nurse has been able
to find out what ails her.
Another patron, who worried her
empty little head about meeting eye-
brows, submitted to a plucking, and
as each individual hair had to be
plucked out by the root, it was fully
three weeks before the bridge of her
nose was uncovered; but the operation
cost her $500.
The friend to whom she recon-
mended her artist was less successful.
She was troubled with hollow neck.
but prided herself on her satiny skin,
which, however, could not be displayed
owing to- he unsightly depression be-
tween her throat and collar. The man
applied a suctiOn-pump and under
took to blow out the hollow. An at
tack was made on one side of the de-
preston, but the result was so far in
excess OF expectation that the woman
was horrified at her dcformity and be-
came so ObstreperOus that SenOr Moth
Observation-Disclosures fled the town,
and has never been seen or heard of
since. The now sadly afflicted belle
sought strange doctor, who treated
her for goiter and kept her so long
under coat of iodine that she is
marked for the next ten years with the
ineradicable yellow.
The value OF good looks must be fully
appreciatedwhen women of this country
have recourse to this heroic treatment.
Verify, there is no such element as un-
alloyed happiness, and if woman
have fine teeth, good hair, bright
eyes, and patrician nose, there is
certain to be mole, wart, pimple,
birth-mark, discoloration, moth, patch,
hepatica-spot, hives, prickly heat, or
some similar blemish which, although
but skin deep, sutlices to make her eX-
istence bore.
The worst Of the matter is, that as
soon as the bette noire is attacked
myriads before unseen present them
selves, and the case becomes SO hope
less that Miss Speckleface throws away
her hand-glaSs and devotes her wits to
the powder-puff and rouge-pOt, de-
termined to cover up the blemishes
that, like the sins of her forefathers,
can not be eradicated. This is alter