San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-07

Moies May BE Removsd-A Stitch 1
Time-Freckles Not Feared as Formerl,
A Cure.
Nothing except wrinkles is so disliked b,
the feminine variety as the unexpected ap
pearance Of a long wiry hair protrudin,
from the chin or any part Of the face. They
seem to come without any warning; no pre-
monitory fuzziness, but in night they ar
rive.
The first resort when they are discovered Il
the scissors But they grow again, like mush
rooms after an August rain, all the thicker
and more bristling after each cutting. Then
comes the reign Of the tweezers, and, regard.
less of pain, out they must come. But, as in
the case Of gray hairs, they, too, come to the
funeral Still, such were the only remedies
OF the women of yesterday, and they had to
bear this sign, as well as others, of advancing
age with what courage they could Poor old
thingsl you had to put up with such lot of
trials we escape.
Nowadays woman with superauous hair
mas only to make two or three or four visits
to an electrical physician. Indeed, the fam
lily physician often undertakes the removal
and at each visit he removes some half dozen
OF the Objectionable capillaceous adornments
by the aid Of his electric needle. One tiny
puncture at the root of each hair, one Quick.
little shock from the battery, and good-by
hair forever and aye. 1t is very unwise to
have more than six or seven hairs removed
at once. 1t becomes then a case of more
haste less speed, for the operation is apt to
produce sore which will prevent any fur
fhQr xloS l..
rev may be removed at a time-say, twice a
week-wlthout any inconvenience. Nor
need any person fear any after effects what
ever from this cause if done carefully a few
at time
Another discovery of modern study of
physical development is that there is no need
OF allowing such unsightly disfgurements as
moles to continue upon the human face or
BODY, although persons rarely 90 to the
trouble of having any such thing removed
from the body unless on the arms or neck.
touch the surface of a mole very
Iigh,. WITH pencil or sharp pointed stick
dipped in fun os NITRIC acid. When in the
embryo state it requires 40 more than two
applications to entirely eradica>@ the deface-
ment, and it is very unwise to awaI+ tpe GER
it treated.
1t is, perhaps as well not to give here the
strength Of the acid necessary to perform the
operation, for it is dangerous thing to trile
with and should be left entirely to the use of
physicians or surgeons A single drop too
aucch aE a time will not only eat away the
mole, but Very nice little round hole in the
kin all about the place where it used to be.
Women must remember that they forbid
children to play with fire.
Certain small round brown moles are con-
'dered 9 mark Of beauty, and therefore
Inless they are as thick as freckles, which
hey resemble, it is not worth while to !
amper with them. Especially should one
appear on the back of the neck, it should be
like ruby, for what says the old
lynne we learned with our Mother Goose?
Moles in the neck, money by the peck
1t is the clear, white watery kind Of mole
rom which hairs grow that Is So tsiy-such
u afflicted List, the c.s8poser, who was
lnown by his moles, bis waxen death mask
howing them plainly. There is kind of
white mole or bard pimple which grows
about the eye and eyelids which is one of the
most disfguring things seen on a face. Some
low one never likes to look directly at a per-
'on who is so afflicted and has not gone at
once about their removal. They grow with
rapidity and sometimes come in
little groups, which as they grow are suddenly
discovered 70 have run together and made
5ne large 6lie.
Getting rid of these is such an easy matter
hat there is no excuse for permitting them
TO remain. One visit to a surgeon or oculist
one touch of his sharp scalpel and the cause,
4 little hard, round, white lump, rolls out,
and the little cut in the skin soon heals
sometimes the puncture of the skin with a
needle is all that is necessary, but usually the
foreign substance is imbedded so deep that
one fears to fool around the eye with a sharp
pointed needle. There is no lotion or wash
Or ointment which has the slightest effect on
these sort of things.
Freckles are looked at in a very different
light today than they were formerly. They
are regarded as beauty, and women go so
far as to have them painted on in certain
emporiums, where the art of
bleaching, calcimining and
painting is carried to a remarkable degree of
though it must be confessed the
result Of their experiments and researches is
art, very evident art, and not nature at all,
nor even the semblance of it.
There are hundreds of preparations for re-
moving freckles, some of them pleasant.
agreeable washes to us, but none of them
truly efficacious. Freckles which come in
summer time wear away when the bright,
hot sunshine goes. A few days spent indoors,
in cool, dark rooms, makes them disappear;
little attention to the diet, the abstinence
from food and drink containing iron is a par
tial cure
But freckles have a comely, healthy,