The Arizona sentinel., 1886-12-04

A pale young man, wearing a gener- ally lean and hungry look and specific brown mole on the epidermis just over his right cheek bone, passed down Fourth and up one of the cross streets at about nine o'clock last Sunday morn- ing. When he rang the bell at the doorway of trim brick building near Fifth street the mole on his cheek was decorated with growth of hair which might have given his mustache odds and then beaten it by a hundred and fifty points. When he emerged, twenty minutes later, the mole was bleached to a pale tan color, and the growth of hair was gone.
 ''Is the doctor in?' he asked, upon servants answering his ring.
 ''Yes, sir; step upstairs, please. :"
 There were about dozen steps to step up before the comfortably-fed fig ure of the doctor met him on the velvet rug at the open door of the consulta- tion-room. The doctor was young, but few gray hairs in his otherwise sandy mustache and an intellectual thinning of his hair in the region of tine occiput told that he was not too young, but just young enough.
 ''Can I remove those hairs from the mole on your cheek?' he repeated in answer to the young mans question. ''Yes, sir, most certainly can do so, and not only that but l can remove the mole as well.r
 "How much?"
 "From a nominal up to an indefinite price"
 ''Ah."
 ''If you wish the hairs taken away temporarily and bottle of depilatory with which you may remove them your self in after times, the charge will be nominal; but if you wish the hair eradicted root and branch, so that it will never return. and the mole colored to the normol condition of the cuticle, the operation will require several sit tings and the charge be corresponding ly increased. Excuse me, one min ute"
 He touched his finger to the hairy mole and examined it closely for sec ond.
 ''There are just nine strong hairs on this blemish," he said. 'tI can remove them with electricity at one sitting; but inc removal of the discoloration will be work of at least four operations.
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 Take a seat in that chair, please. '" He indicated plush-covered armchair with a rounded head-rest, and after the victim was seated he brought out from an inner room a black leather box, from which dangled the insulated wires which accompany every electric battery. To the end of one of the wires was affixed a sponge electrode and to the other very slender, thorn-pointed needle was deli cately clamped.
 ''Now then," he said, pushing back his cuffs with that brisk, professional air which is associated with the tender memories of dental experiences, "this box contains an eight-cell electric bat tery. This sponge, which you will grasp in your right hand, please-ah, thank you-is the positive pole. This needle-made of gold, because that metal is susceptible of being brought to much finer point than the finest steel needle, and the finer the point naturally the smaller will be the puncture which it will make in your skin; this needle is the negative pole. When the needle penetrates the skin and touches the root of the hair it thus completes the circuit, and current of electricity rushes like lightning to the point of the instrument, and blasts the young hair in its prime in fact, it kills it. Now don't start, please; sit perfectly still"
 The young man felt slight tingling when the needle point entered the cuticle. The tingling continued for about ten seconds, and a single coarse black hair dropped from his face and floated to the floor. After a similar operation had been performed eight times his cheek was as smooth as an in- fant's, and, beyond a slight suffusion of blood to the part, making the skin rosy and reckoning the obnoxious color of the mole, there were no visible effects of the punctures.
 ''That hair will never come back. It is not often that 1 remove nine hairs from a single spot at one sitting; but you skin is so thick that 1 judged the chSuluS lnudIumdIlOu NOulu HOb De much, and that you could safely stand the operation; but I think it will be as well to wait two or three days before we begin to reduce the other trouble-the discoloration. Underno circumstances do l ever pull more than dozen hairs with electricity at one sitting, and then make it point not to remove them in one spot, but to take them one by one from as large an area as possible. For instance, in removing objectionable mustaches from ladies upper lips and that is profitable branch of my business-I first remove hair from the extreme right end of the mustache, then from the extreme left; then from the center, and so on. By the way, have you ever noticed that