Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-11-15
pIMpLEs MADE TO ORDER.
A Chicago Doctors" DTcthod-A French
mans Process--A Lad job.

Inc DOCTOR, q pleasant tacel young
man, said: II am regularly graduated
physician, and believe myself capable of
performing any ordinary operation. Chi
cago needs dimple maker and want
to be the man. There's money in it for
me 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 Dimple making
is regular business in New York and
other eastern cities. ] think can in
troduoe improvements into the art. l
have been to Paris and have studied there
under the great dimple makers, and
think myself competent. The process is
simple. Through am incision made in
the skin remove small portion of the
flesh sufficient to leave a cavity large
enough for a dimple. The wound is
dressed and nature is left to heal it. No,
/ don't care to so into particulars, be-
cause do not want to be initiated. The
charge will be from S25 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
q n1atter OF more OF less tlLlc.
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. He had
been barber in his own country, and
had learned dimple making Us 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 first floor front
in one of the old houses ON Fourteenth
street, New York, before the reorgani=a-
ton of that thoroughfare, he hired
young graduate to help him. This was
in 1875.
LIE Compile soon became the rage. He
early 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 Il small hollow cone of silver
to the cheek or chin of the would be
dimpled. To the open small end of the
conc was affixed tube leading to an air
pump. By exhausting the air from the
cone the integument and flesh covered
by the open fared end of it was forced
up, filing the cone, A ligament was
then tied around the base of the conical
portion of flesh to prevent it sinking back
to the level of the face. The cone was
then removed and an opening mado in
the elevated particle of face and enough
of that flesh removed to cause the desired
depression, when the ligament 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
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 bad toothache or the mumps,
or any other complaint causing the nuf-
| fling of tho face. ~
LIE Compile did quite q business at first,
bit it was soon discovered that his opera
tons left either scar or permanent
redness behind, which was moro unpleas-
ant than the lack of dimplc. He had
imitators, Of course and Some of them
| improved on his methods. 1t was not
until local anaosthetics came into vogue
that the business received great i'm
petus. With cocaine new field was
opened to dimple makers and tie other
| improvers and benefactors of humanity.
| The process was then made practically
painless, and establishments, usually rs
adiuncts to dental Offices and manicure
oil ~, nI
adclphia rs well as New York.
! 1t rested with Yankee herb doctor
named Swain to reach the pinnacle Of
the profession. Swain had Lcen an
| itincrant medicine vender 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 to see whether American ways
and newspaper ink would not improve
on the methods Of Europe. He chose
the City of Brotherly Love as the field
for his operations, and opened with the
| glare Of brass and tho fluttering Of
| dodgers health and beauty parlors,
as he described his apartments on Mar
ket street. He chose as chief assistant q
pretty young Quakeress with a natural
dimplc Of surprising beauty. She was
exhibited us specimen of lis handicraft.
He did not confnc himself to dimples.
He sold powders ard rouges and lotions,
and had certain infa,lible recipes for
badness and palencss and redness and
al the blemishcS, 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 havo kept two assistants busy
dimplc making, but an end came to his
prosperity,
Ills method of making dimples was
substantially the Same rs that now prac-
ticcd. But familiarity breeds careless
ness rs well as contempt, and ono day
when the chin Of q patrician Philadel-
phia belle was in the process Of dimpling
q rusty rcalpel wcS inadvertently used
with disastrous effect. In few days
the lower jaw Of that beauty was far
from heighteHing he: attractiyc2ess. Let
q veil be drawn ove- tho picture. Suffice
1 IT, her coed looks were CCno forever, and