Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-11
WRINKLES.
A Subject of Interest to Those Who Are
CROWNS Old. J,


A suhjeat Of Interest to Those Who Are
Growing Old. !
We all become interested sooner or
later on the subject of wrinkles. They
are the ''irreparable outrage of Ra-.
cine; but although they are SO univer-
sal few have endeavored to explain
their origin and progress. NJ. Mante-
gazza, in the Italian scientific journal
Naturo, has recently published a study
on the subject, which appears to con-
tain all that can be said on it at pres
emit. Wrinkles are produced in the
first instance by the frequent repetition
| of some muscular contraction or by
| sickness. According to one writer
they are not merely superficial, but ap-
pear when the epidermis is removed,
and are found not only in the face but
| all over the body. They do not run in
any regular direction, and nc law has
been found including all their direc-
tions. They are said to depend mainly
on the tascicuE which form the reticu-
| lar part of the dermis. M. Mante-
gazza thinks that the life history of q
man can be written from his wrinkles.
Corneille has expressed the same idea:
''Ses rides sur son front ont grave ses ex-
plOits."i
But physiology andpoetry hardly agree
in this instance; for it has still to be
proved that a Generals wrinkles differ
from those of a physician, or a labor
er's from a lawyers. A man does not
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3 faithful autobiography in his face.
Although no part of the body is free
from them they visit chiefly the face,
particularly around the eyes and
lips. They run in all d.
r%ections, horizontal, vertical and
oblique, straight, curved and
crossed. NJ. Mantegazza then goes
rapidly over the commonest and most
remarkable sets OF wrinkles. These
acrossNthe forehead are found even in
children who are rickety or idiots.
Going iii the sui with the face insuffic-
iently covered brings them on prema-
turely. But they are in every case
normal at forty, or even earlier.
Vertical wrinkles between the eyes
come quickly to men who study or
worry themselves. This can readily be
imagined; the eyebrows contract natur-
ally when in deep thought; grief or
worry produces the same action, which
when repeated frequently produces a
fold in the skin, marking emotion
undergone many times. One of the
rules of the Jesuits was that the eye
brows were not to be contracted. This
was excellent from a moral point of
view, but it was also excellent to pre-
vent wrinkles between the eyes. Be-
tween these and the straight lines on
the forehead already mentioned come
the arched wrinkles of the forehead.
found above the root of the nose.
These often tell of long and cruel
physical suffering, or of still more pain
full mental torture. They arise from
a great development of the vertical
wrinkles and the resistance of the skin
above. The crow's-feet mark the pass
ing of the fortieth year. They are
especially detcsted by ladies, says M.
Mantegazza; and he forthwith relates
an anecdote of a lady who succeeded
in keeping off the dreaded visitation
long after it was due by the expedient
OF using springs to keep the skin
stretched at night at the corners of the
eyes. These wrinkles are characterized
by burrows which diverge from the en-
ternal angles of the eye in all directions,
like the claws of the bird from which
they are named. The wrinkles of the
are less frequent and less notice.
able, and appear in old age. Those
which descend from the nostrils down
each side of the mouth (the rides easo
l0biales) are perhaps the first to appear.
The reason is simple. These burrows
are created in laughing or m~astication;
a simple smile is sufficient to produce
them, so it is not surprising the repiti-
ton OF the commonest acts should
soon be craven on the face. They are
also hereditary. M. Mantegazza had
them when he was twenty-five years of
age, and his children have had them
from their earliest years. The wrinkles
of the cheeks and chin follow the oval
of the face. and are caused by a dimin-
ution of the fatty substance under the
skin. which then falls into folds. The
small wrinkles which form a network
in the lower part of the cheeks near
the ears have the same origin, and
only appear in old. age Those found
in the upper eyelids, and sometimes in
the lower, which give the eyes an air
of fatigue, are the results of hard liv-
ing. grief, or worry. * y
The study of wrinkles, concludes M.
Mantegazza. has still to be prosecuted;
1t would be necessary to compare
them in the different races of mankind
to see if there are any sensible differ
ences. and if so their causes and ex-
tent. 1t would certainly be interest
ing to know something more. of ''those.
democrats who won't tlatter,'r as
Byron puts it somewhere.-PaE Mall
Gazette.
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