The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-08-07

WARTS AND MOLxSs ~ liA@c
HSv - Kxssrminats These Posts Of Pretty
Faces.
An old monk is credited with saying
that the one ambition OF woman Is o
pretty face, and for that charm will she
risk life and defy death. When the
influence OF . pretty face IN taken into
consideration, it is not hard to believe
that most any woman will do anything
and try everything to secure 1t. A
pretty face 10 q fortune, and II there is
any possible chance of attaining the
one or securing the other nine women
out of every ten are willing to take that
chance. No long ago man from Bar
celona established himself In Chicago.
aud, securing letters to few popular
families, succeeded in building up o
reputation that gave promise OF a
princely income. He circulated among
the weather. classes and treated women
In their own private apartments, and In
less than month had collected So, 900.
He did little mischief, but the torture
he subjected hi, freckled patients to
would have made him valuable adj
junct to the Spanish inguisitors. One
young woman paid him SIS an hour for
treating the aaucy little freckles that
dotted her pretty nose. Mademoiselie
was tied in chair and her nose plugged
up with bits of sponge saturated with
ether. When sufficiently s,upefied, the
man went to work with knife and lit
orally skinned her entire face. A solu-
ton 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 girls success as a
debutante, and she gave directions to
have her under narcotics 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
has 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 plucking, and as
each individual ha r had to be plucked
ont 10y the root it was fully three
weeks before the bridge of her nose
was uncovered; but the operation cost
her s. 90.
The friend to whom she recommend
ed her ai tit was less successful. She
was troubled with hollow neck, but
prided herself upon her satiny skin.
which. however. could not be displayed
owing to the unsightly depression be-
tween her throat and collar. The man
applied suction-pump and undertook
to blow out the hollow. An attack was
made on one side of the depression, but
the result was so far in excess of ex-
pectation that the woman was Mortified
at her deiormity and became so obstrep-
erous that Senior Observation-Disclosures
Termination fled the town, and has never
been seen or heard of nee. The now
sadly icted belle sought a strange
doctor, who treated her for goitre, and
kept her SO long under q coat of iodine
that she is marked for the next ten
years W tn the ineradicable yellow.
The value of good looks must be
fully appreciated when women of thi,
century have recourse to this heroic
treatment. Verify, there is no such
element az unalloy ed happiness, and if
a woman have fine teeth, good hair,
bright eyes, and n patrician nose, there
Is certain to he mole, wart, pimple,
birthmark, discoloration, moth, patch,
hepatica-spot, h yes. prickly-heat, or
some similar blemish which, although
but skin-deep, suflices to make her ex-
istence a bore.
The worst of the matter is, that as
soon as the bette noire is attacked, myr-
lads before unseen present themselves,
and the case becomes so hopeless that
Miss Speckleface throws away her hand
glass and devotes her wits to the pow
der-puif and rouge-pot, determined to
cover up the blemishes that, like the
sins Of her forefathers, cannot be Grad
icated. This is after all, as it should
be, for til rty days fretting are more dis
astrous to youth and beauty than a
bushel o. skin eruptions.
I here is one foe to beauty, however,
which Lothing short of mask viii
cover, and that is the little wart or
mole, ma lie doubly hideous by the tuit
of hair, which sometimes grows to be
two inches long. That this defect is a
thorn in the flesh. any woman so aliiict-
ed can testify, and there really is no
reason why the irritat on should be en-
dured. Any woman who cares for APP
pearances can certainly take time to
pull ont the hairs. TO be sure, more
will grow, but they can be watched and
plucked out also as soon rs they reach
tire surface. If this simpler operation
is continued-daily, if necessary-the
roots will one by one yield, and finally
the growth will cease. Now take q
piece of strong, fine twist, tie it sec Lre-
~ around the mole, and, as circulation
is thus cut off, decomposition will set
in and in two weeks the annoyance will
disappear.