The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-10
piMptes MADE TO ORDER.
A Chicago Doctors" Method-A Trench
teams Process-A Bad job.

| Inc uOCtor, piedSsill iaScu ,'oitS
man. said: Il am a regularly graduated
musician, and believe myself capable OF
performing any ordinary operation. Chi
cago needs dimple, quaker and want
to be the man. THERE'S money in it for
Inc and beauty in it for the ladies. The
process is practically painless and the
after result as beautiful dimple as the
heart of man could desire TO look upon
or woman TO possess. Dimplc making
is regular business in New York and
other eastern cities. | think / can in
trocluce improvements into the art. /
have been 10 Paris and have studied there
under the great dimple makers and
think myself competent. The process II
simple. Through an incision made IN
the skin ! remove a small portion Of tho
| flesh sufficient to leave a cavity large
enough for dimple. The wound Is
dressed and nature is left to heal it. No,
don't care to go into particulars, be-
cause do not want to be initiated. The
charge will be from $25 to $50, and the
time required about one week. The OPP
Grafton itself takes but few minutes.
OF course the healing of the wound is
a matter of more or less time
The first establishment Of the business,
if it can be so called, in America, was
managed by a Frenchman named lie
Compile. who introduced it. lie had
been barber in his own country, and
had learned dimple making as an adj
iunct to shaving, as the Italians learn
how to use the lancet. He was not an
expert. but he was shrewd. He knew
that doctors of certain class come
CHEAP. SO when he hired a first floor front
I'm one Of the old houses on Fourteenth
street New York, before the reorganiza-
ton of that thoroughfare, he hired a
young graduate to help him. This was
in 1915.
lie Compile soon became the rage. He
carly achieved newspaper notoriety from
the novelty of his calling, and this helped
him. His process was not so simple or
so free from pain as the present method.
He applied a small hollow cone of silver
TO the check or chin Of the would he
dimpled. To the open small end of the
cone was affixed tube leading to an AR
pump. By cxhausting the air from the
cone the integument and flesh covered
by the open hared end Of il was forced
M. filing the cone. 4 ligament was
then tied around the base Of the conical
portion Of flesh to prevent it sinking back
10 the level Of the face. The cone was
then removed and an opening made III
the elevated particle Of face, and enough
Of that flesh removed to cause the desired
depression. when the llgament was re-
moved As none Of the epidermis was
removed. there was usually no difficulty
experienced in causing the wound to
heal with suppuration. To give the dim
pie its required shape, solid cone was
inserted in the depression and kept there
until the wound had healed by means Of
a bandage. During this time it was pre-
sumed that the more or less fair patient
was not at home TO callers. Or. If seen,
she had q bad toothache or the mumps.
or any other complaint causing the muf-
fling Of the face.
LeCompte did quite business at first,
but twas soon discovered that his opera
tons left either q scar or permanent
redncss behind, which was more unpleas-
ant than the lack Of a dimple. He had
imitators. Of course, and some Of them
improved on his methods 1t was not
until local anasthctics came into vogue
that the business received great I'M
petus. With cocaine new field was
opened TO dinIple makers and the other
improvcrs and benefactors Of humanity.
The process was then made practically
painless, and establishments, usually rs
adiuncts to dental Offices and manicure
shops, were located in Boston aud Phil
adephiaas well as New York.
1t rested with a Yankee herb doctor
named Swain to reach the pinnacle of
the profession. Swain had been an
itinerant medicine vendcr throughout
New England, in which capacity he had
pulled teeth and performed other minor
surgical operations upon the natives OF
the districts through which he Travelled.
Becoming acquainted with one of lie
Complies assistants he soon learned all
that the Frenchman knew, and he re-
solved 10 see whether American ways
and newspaper ink would not improve
on the methods Of Europe. He chose
the City If Brotherly Love as the field
for his operations, and opened with the
glare of brass and the fiuttering of
dodgers "health and beauty" parlors,
as be described his apartments OH Mar
ket street. lie chose as chief assistant
pretty young Quakeress with natural
dimple of surprising beauty. She was
exhibited as a specimen of his handicraft.
He did not confnc himself to dimples.
He sold powders and rouges and lotions.
and had certain infa,lible recipes for
badness and paleness and redness and
all the blemishes, real and imaginary,
with which the bellies of the city thought
themselves afflicted. He soon worked
up good trade, and at one time he is
said to have kept two assistants busy
dimple making, but an end came TO his
prosperity.
His method Of making dimples was
substantially the same as that now prac-
ticed But familiarity breeds careless
ness rs well rs contempt. and one day
when the chin Of a patrician Philadel-
rsia belle was in the process Of dimpling
rusty scalpel was inadvertently used
| with disastrous effect. In q few days
| tba loyver law of that beauty was far