Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
COSMETIC ElEorRlclIx.
How Hair ana BIrthmarks Are Removed
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from Society Womon's Faces.
OF the many curious stores which make
Fourteenth street, New York, and its en-
vlrons, a resort for fashionable city women
or their curiosity seeking country cousins,
one deserves more than passing notice,
writes a correspondent from that city to the
Philadelphia Press. II 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 pa
tently trying to improve the fat red paws
Of some retired Hquor-dealer's wife. In a
second alcove a chiropodist is undoing
the painful consequences of tight boots and
high heels. In a side room some customer
is having her hair bleached, oiled, dressed
or dyed by a def and experienced attend
ant Over a door, however, is a singular
notice. 1t reads: Hair absolutely and per-
manently removed by the electrical depil-
ator Birthmarks and blemishes painlessly
removed by electricity"
The proprietor, a well-fed and portly per-
sonage, condcsccnded 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 capt.
tails 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. / take this needle,n and
here he produced a queer little tool that re-
sembled cobbler's awl, with long narrow
handle Of black vulcanite and tiny blade
of polished metal, land pass a current
throughit- 1t becomes white hot, but il is
so small that the amount of heat it creates
can not 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 current on, let the needle
stay less than the fraction of second and
then take it out. The heat and current to-
gether 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 patient has enough
strength to endure, we wash the part of the
face, arm, neck, breast or back with a cool
ing lotion and the operation is over for the
day. After one, two or three days. rest
they come back for second treatment, and
so keep on till all the Objectionable hair is
removed. Some women arc nervous and
can't stand more than ten hairs at an opera
ton; others are drawer than men and will
SIT there and suffer uncomplaininglya as long
as you'll let them. Women vary much in
the number and quality of hairs that are
unslghtly. Most have few bristles on the
chin or cheek; good number have mus
taches or whiskers, while few have repu-
lar boards.
Removing birthmarks and blemishes is
more beautiful operation. You use two
needles, one connected with the electro
positive and the other with the electro-neg-
alive pole or quite powerful galvanic bat
terry. You insert these just below the false
skin on opposite sides of the thing to be re-
moved, and let the current flow from five to
SIX minutes. The current is not an inter-
rupted one like those which the street ped
dlers Of electricity use, but an ordinary one
which neither shocks nor pains. There is no
heating, burning nor loss of blood, so that
there is less trouble than in the slightest
prick OF a cambria needle. After few op-
erations the birthmark shrivels up and falls
or DR.. Henry Lassing explains the oper-
alton as consisting in the current decom-
posing the cells which make up blemish and
which are weaker and less resistant than
the natural cells of healthy flesh ana blood,
and so separating the birthmark from the
normal tissue beneath. What do remove
In this wayl Moles, wens, face marks,
strawberry marks are a few of the common
things. Among rare birthmarks l have
taken of are horn from the forehead and
mouse from the neck, a coiled caterpillar
from the shoulder. These were some I'M
natural kinds of flesh which came away
very readily. OF course 1 charge high
never less than five dollars for my work per
hour