The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-11-08
plMPLEs MADE TO ORDER.
A Chicago "Doctor's' Method-A French
mans ProceSs-A Bad Job.

DlMPLEs MADE TO ORDER.
A Chicago Doctors" Method-A French
mans Process-A Bad Job.
The doctor, pleasant faced young
man, said: 81 am a 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
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
troduce 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 an incision made in
the skin / remove small portion of the
flesh sufficient to leave cavity large
enough for a dimplc. The wound is
dressed and nature is left to heal it.. No,
l don't care to so 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 op-
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
Compte, who introduced it. He had
been barber in his own country, and
had learned di1nple making as an ad-l
junct to shaving, as the Iralians harm
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 fiocr front
in one of the old houses on Fourteenth
street, New York, before the reorganiza-
ton of that thoroughfare, he Iired a
young graduate to help him. This was
in 1876.
LIE Compte 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 small hollow cone of silver
to the cheek or chin of the would be
dimpled. To the open small end CT tho
cone was affixed a tube leading to an air
pump. By exhausting the air from the
cone the integument and flesh covered
by the open hared end Of it was forced
up, filing the cone. A igament 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 made in
the elevated particle of face, and enough
of that flesh removed to cause the desired
depression, when the hgament 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, q 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 muf-
fling of the face.
LIE Compile did quite business at first,
but it was soon discovered that his opera
tions left either scar or permanent
redness behind, which was more unpleas-
ant than the lack of dinple. He had
imitators, of course, and some OF them
improved on his methods. 1t was not
until local anesthetics came into vogue
that the business received q great inn
petus. With cocaine a new field was
opened to dimple makers and the other
improvers and benefactors of humanity.
The process was then made practically
painless, and establishments, usually as
adjuncts to dental offices and manicure
shops, were located in Boston and Phil
adelphia as well as New York.
1t rested with a Yankee herb doctor
named Swain to reach the pinnacle oI
the profession, Swain had been or
itiIerant medicine Yender throughout
New England, in which capacity he hao
pulled teeth and performed other nlinol
surgical operations upon the natives oi
the districts through which he Travelled
Becoming acquainted with one Of L.
Complies assistants he soon learned al
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 the fluttering oi
dodgers-'bealth and beauty" parlors
as he described his apartments on Mar
ket street. He chose as chief assistant ;
pretty young Qual1eress with a patura
dimple of surprising beauty. She wa!
exhibited as specimen of his handicrafs
He did not confine himself to dinlplcs
He sold powders and rouges and lotions
and had certain infailible recipes for
badness and paleness and redness ant
all the blemishes, real and imaginary
with which the bellies of the city though
themselves afflicted. He soon woTke;
up good trade, and at one time he i
said to have kept two assistants bus,
dimple making, but an end came 80 hi
prosperity.
lis method of making dimples wa
substantially the same as that now prac
ticed. But familiarity breeds careless
ness as well as contempt, and one ca,
when the chin OF patrician Philaclel
phia belle WIS in the process of diulplini
a rusty scalpel was inadvertently use
with disastrous effect. In few day
the lower jaw Of that beauty was ia
from heishtening her attraetiveness. Lo
a veil be drawn over the picture. Sulic
it, her good looks were gone forever, an
as she valued her appearance at $3.50
it was rather n serious matter, swat
was brought into court ON q damage &
and mulcted for lnoistpc1 lnat sun
1t appeared IN Evidence that he gave
guea---h.ee to each patient to make
! dimple without Disagreement, and as
this case he had failed lamentabiy il hot
| provisions Of his bond, he was charge
for the same. That ended his career :
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