Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-12-09

and BIrtlh-Marks Washed Away.
A pale young man, wearing a gener-
ally lean and hungry look and a 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 mustachc odds
and then beaten it by hundred and
fifty points. When he emerged, twenty
minutes later, the mole was bleached to
pale tan color, and the growth Of
hair was gone.
SIS the doctor inp' he asked, upon
servants answering his ring.
Eyes, sir; step upstairs, please. f"
There were about'a dozen steps ia
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 the occipu1
told that he was not too young, but just
young enough.
''Can remove those hairs from the
mole on your cheekP" he repeated in
answer to the young mans question
Eyes, sir, | most certainly can do SO
and not only that, but can remove the
mole as WE'LL"
''How muchp"
''From nominal up to an indefinite
price"
"Ah."
''If you wish the hairs taken away
temporarily and a bottle OF depilatory
with which you may remove them your
self in after times, the charge will bt
nominal; but if you wish the hail
eradicted root and branch, so that i
will never return. and the mole coloret
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 OF
this blemish," he said, II can remov,
them with electricity at one sitting; bu
the removal of the discoloration will b.
work of at least four operations.
"Fire away"
Take a seat in that chair, please.
He indicated plush covered arm-chai
with rounded head-rest, and after tn
victim was seated he brought out iron
an inner room black leather box, from
which dangled the insulated wires whic
accompany every electric battery. L
the end of one of the wires was affixed
sponge electrode and to the other yer
slender, thorn-pointed needle was deli
cately clamped.
"Now then," he said, pushing bac
his cuffs with that brisk, professional al
which is associated with the tende
memories of dental experiences, ''thi
box contains an eight-cell electric bal
terry. This sponge, which you wi
grasp in your right hand, please-ah
thank you-is the positive pole. Thi
needle-made of gold, because tina
metal is susceptible of being brought t
much finer point than the finest stet
needle, and the finer the point natural
the smaller will be the puncture whic
it will make in your skin; this needle
the negative pole. When the needl
penetrates the skin and touches the roc
of the hair it thus completes the circuit
and current of electricity rushes lik
lightning to the point of the instrument
and blasts the young hair in its prime
in fact it kills it. Now don't star
please; sit perfectly STILL"
The young man felt slight tinglin
when the needle point entered tn
cuticle. The tingling continued fo
about ten seconds, and single coars
black hair dropped from his face an
floated to the floor After a simila
operation had been performed eigf
times his cheek was as smooth as an il
fants, and, beyond a slight suffuson {
blood to the part, making the skin ros
and reddening the obnoxious color {
the mole, there were no visible effec
of the punctures.
.'That hair will never come back.
is not often that / remove nine hail
from single spot at one sitting; bl
YOU skin is so thick that l judged Il
ensuing inflammation would not |
much, and that YOU could safely stan
the operation; but / think it will be
well to wait two or three days before v
begin to reduce the other trouble-tl
discoloration. Under no circumstane,
do ever pull more than dozen hal
with electricity at one sitting, and the
make il point not to remove them
one spot, but to take them one by OF
from as large an area as possible. Fl
instance, in removing ob;ectionah
mustaches from ladies' upper lips
and that is profitable branch Of n
business-1 first remove hs
from the extreme right end of Il
mustache, then from the extreme lei
then from the center, and so on. !
the way, have you ever noticed th