Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-02-26
NEW YORK LETTER.
rHS GORGEOUS STEWART PALACE 70 BIZ
soLD AT AUCTION.
Cosmetic observation-disclosures and Other
Blsmfshss Removed frsm Fair
women-rhree strikinE Co
than Pictures.
Icorespcndence Of The Richmond Dispssch.l
NV York, February Is, 1888.

Iconcspondence Of the Richmond nspasch.l
NRw York, February IS. 1883
When the late Mrs. A. 4. Stewart died
the bie white marble palace ut the cor
per OF Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth
street, that all the world has read OF and
which that lady so long occupied as q
home. was left in charge of faithful
old housekeeper and a rofinue OF SER
wants. IL is a gorgeous palace. 1t was
bmih by A. 7. Stewart at time when
labor and material were expensive. No
one knows how much II cost, but GER
tainly not q penny less than $500, 0O0
Now II is in the market Tho Stewart
executors have decided to sell it, and
those persons who have desired to in
spect il with view 10 purchase have
bad an opportunity to visit all
the rooms. The establishment has
been carried on the same as though
both Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart we're
alive. The blinds are drawn as they
alvays we're during their occupancy OF
the massive pile. The house Is swept
busted. and cleaned regularly each week.
A solitary gas-jet hickers in the gorgeous
hall as il did when Stewart lived. A de-
tective PAGES up and down in front OF the
house night and day, and the servants
come and 90 just the same as when the
lady of the mansion occupied her mag
nificent boudojr. Nothing in the house
has been disturbed but the pictures.
They were sold at auction. The rich
lace curtains hang at the windows. and
the carpets that were especially made
for each room still cover the floors.
Not a speck OF dirt is seen any
where. The faithful old housekeeper
and the servants live their monotonous
life, and curious passers-by, when they
see the gas lighted in the servants rooms,
wonder If the ghost of the great mer-
ant-prince has not returned TO the pa
latlal home that brought him only death.
The building will be sold in few weeks
Experts estimate that it may bring
$50, 900. Several clubs are negotiating
for il and one or two bonanza-kings hope
to get il, but nobody seems overanxous
about it. The impression has gone
forth that II is unlucky, and few persons
care to tempt fate even in this work-a'
day world.
COSMETIC ELECTRICITY.
OF the many curious stores which
make Fourteenth street, New York, and
its environs, a resort for fashionable city
women or their curiosity seeking coun-
try cousins, one near Mays deserves
more than passing notice. 1t is on the
second floor, and occupies at least two
large rooms These are richly carpeted
and furnished. In one curtained alcove
a pretty young woman, calling herself a
manicure, is patiently trying to improve
the fat red paws of some retired liquor
dealers wife. In second alcove chi
ropodist is undoing the painful conse-
quences of tight boots and high heels.
In side-room some customer is having
her hair bleached. oiled, dressed, or
dyed by q deft and experienced attend
ant Over a door, however, is singular
notice. 1t reads "Hair absolutely and
permanently removed by the electrical
tlepilator. Birth-marks and blemishes
painlessly removed by electricity.
REMOVING MoUsTACHEs FROM LADIES.
The proprietor, a well-fed and portly
parsonage, condescended to talk upon
this phase of his business. "These are
two new ideas which have been lately
discovered, and which are in use in all
the great capitals of Europe and few
cities in the United States don't know
who discovered them. learned
them abroad and introduced them here.
Removing hair by the new process is
very simple. 1 take this needle" and
here he produced queer little tool that
resembled cobbler's awl with long
narrow handle Of black vulcanite and a
tiny blade of polished metal, land pass
a current through it. IL becomes white
hot. but it is so small that the AMOUNT
Of heat it creates cannot be felt except
where the point touches. You insert the
needle in the sac out of which the hair
grows down to the bottom, turn the cur
rent on, let the needle stay less than the
fraction of a second and then take it
ont. The heat and current together
have destroyed the cells which make the
substance of the hair and have also
changed their character, because not
only does the hair come out but no new
hair ever grows from that sac. After
destroying as many hairs as the pa
tient has enough strength to endure,
we wash the part OF the face, ann,
neck, breast. or back with n cooling
lotion and the operation is over for the
day. After one, two, or three days rest
they come back for a second treatment,
and so keep on till all the Objectionable
hair is removed. Some women are
nervous and can't stand more than ten
hairs at an operation others are drawer
than men and will sit there and suffer I'M
complainingly as long as you'll let them.
Women vary much in the number ard
quality of hairs that are unsightly. Most
have few bristles on the chin or cheek ;
a good number have moustaches or whis-
kers, while few have regular boards.
1t doesn't take many hairs to make a per-
ceptible moustache.
OTHER BLEsnsHEs.
"Since decoLette costumes have be-
come 80 fashionable l have done very
large business in removing hairs from the
arms, back, and breast. Mrs. Langtry' s
back and Belle Urquhart's arms set the
rage IN this respect. Have | operated
on many actresses Certainly. But
who they are is q professional secret
which cannot be divulged.
Removing birth-marks and blemishes
ia more beautiful operation. You use
two needles, one connected with the
electro positive and the other with the
electromagnetic pole of quite powerful
galvanic battery. You insert these just
below the false skin on opposite sides Of
the thing TO be removed and let the cur
rent flow from five to six minutes The
current is not an interrupted one like
those which the street peddlers OF
electricity use, but an ordinary one