St. Paul daily globe., 1885-08-15
MAIDENs WITH MUsTACHEs.
How Louisville Ladies' Get Rid of
Eirsute AdOrnments.

Airsute AdOrnments.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
y reporter yesterday afternoon stepped
| into the Office of DR.. Sam Woody, on West
Walnut street. The young physician was
seated at table and wore over his eyes a
pair of strong spectacleS that brought his
eyes within an inch or two of the cOunten-
ance upon which he was working. 1t was
the face of handsome brunette just verg-
| ing into wOmanhOod. On her upper lip,
and slightly shading its scarlet hue, grew a
dark. silken muStache that on a dude would
have been cherished and cultivated as the
choicest treasure on earth. Her head rested
in a metal plate connected by wire with a
! galvanic battery on the table.
The doctor took up from the table, at his
elbow, something that looked like an ebony
/ pen staff. This also was connected with
| the battery. In the end was very fine
! gold-plated needle. The doctor looked
cautiously over the young lady's dainty little
nustache and at length, singing out hair,
inserted the point of the needle down by
| the hair bulb and, pressing a little spring
| in the handle, turned ON the current from
| the battery.
! When the electric current ran down the
/ point of the little needle, the young lady
WINGED and clenched her hands, while the
! tears came to her eyes. This lasted only
for moment, for as soon as little froth
| appeared around the needle, it was removed
/ and a hair dropped out. After forcing
! out about a dozen of the hairs on each side
of the lip, the doctor stopped. The young
| lady removed her head from the metal
| plate, wiped her face with scented
pocket handkerchief and tripped gayly to
| to the mirror. She took a long glance of
intense satisfaction and gleefully remarked
that they would soon all be gone. Then
she put on her hat and left, after having
made an appointment for another sit
/ ting.
$50 You remove mustaches from the
| young ladies who are unfortunate enough to
have such hirSute adOrnments?" remarked
the reporter. ''Will you tell me how it is
done?"
1.-The operation is not very new" was
the reply. lit has been known and prae-
| ticed rOr several years, especially in the
East. The electric current decOmpOses the
| salt in the skin into acid winch goes to
the metal plate and alkali which accumu-
lateS around the needle, and destroys the
| hair bulb, so that the hair can never reap
pear"
1T is, then, very easy thing for a
woman to have a mustache remOved?"
1.-The chief objection to the process is its
tediousnesS. Every hair bulb must be de-
strOyed sngly, making the removal of an
entire muStache big job. For instance, it
will be five or six weeks at least before l
finish that young lady's lip but then it will
be finished forever. This method is
also very useful in removing the ugly bristles
that grow in mOleS, for the hairs are then
large in size and few in number"
But doesn't it take up grea deal of
the physicians time?''
Not much. 1t is only necessary to
spend few seconds on each hair, and but
a few minutes on a dozen, after which a
rest of several days is taken to allow the
Inflammation to disappear before undertak-
ing any more. In this way doctor can
employ his spare moments very prOftably,
for young ladies will not only bear the pain
! gladly but pay literally for the time and
care necessary to remove the blemish from
their lips"
care many young ladies in this city
| troubled with muStache of their Own?"
"a pretty good number of them are, but
many are having them removed. Others
are too bashful to go to n doctor and un-
dergo the operation"