Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-11-10
o IMPLIES MADE TO ORDER.
Chicago doctors" Mcthod-A French.
mans Pr0cess-A Had job.

man, SAID: II am regularly graduated
ply sician, and believe myself capable Of
performing any ordinary operation. Chi
cago needs a dimple maker and l 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 dimnle rs tho
heart Of man could desire to look upon
or oman to possess. Dimplc making
is regular business in New York and
other eastern cities. think l can in
trodhce improvements into the art.
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
tho skin remove small portion of the
flesh sufficient to leave cavity large
enough for a dimple. The wound is
dressed and nature Is left to heal it. No,
l 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 ono week. The op-
Grafton itself takes but few minutes.
OF course tho healing of the wound is
matter Of more or less time"
The first establishment of the business,
II i can be SO called, in America, was
managed by Frenchman named lie
Compile, who introduced it. He had
been barber in his own country, and
had learned dimple making as an ad-
juIIct to shaving, us the Italians learn
how to use the lancet. He was not an
expert, but he was shrewd. Hc knew
that doctors of certain class come
cheap, so when he hired a first floor front
in one of the old houses on Fourteenth
street, New York, before the reorganiza-
tic N Of that thoroughfare, he hired q
young graduate to help him. This was
In 1875.
lie Compile soon became the rage. He
. early achieved newspaper notoricty 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
! j, to the cheek or chin of the would be
dimpled To the open small end Of the
cone was affixed tube leading to an air
pump. By exhausting the air from the
: como tho integument and flesh covered
by tho open flared end Of it was forced
up, filing the cone. A ligament was
. then tied around the base of tho conical
: portion of flesh to prevent it sinking back
), to tho level Of the facc. The cone was
y then removed and an opening made in
: the elevated particle of face, and enough
. OF that flesh removed to cause tho desired
/ depression, when the hgament was re-
!. moved. AS none of the epidermis was
u removed, there was usually no difficulty
a experienced in causing the wound te
, heal with suppuration. To give the dim
70 pie its required shape, solid cone was
: Inserted in the depression and kept there
!, until the wound had healed by means o.
IL a bandage. During this time it was pre-
sumed that the more or less fair patien
II was not Mt home to callers. Or, If seen
u she had bad toothache or the mumps
y Or any other complaint causing the muf
n fling of the face.
10 LIE Compte did quite business ut first
Fo but it was soon discovered that his opera
q tions left either a scar or permanen
D. redness behind, which was more unpleas
s ant than tho lack of a dimple. He ha'
N imitators, of course, and some of then
improved on his methods. 1t was no
until local anesthetics came into vogu
that the business received great i'm
:. petus. With cocaine q new field wa
VI opened to dimple makers and the othe
IutpToNeIS ilIiu DeLeldClOIo VI Huiustiilty
y. The process was then made PRACTICAL
" painless, and establishments, usually {
u = hdjuncts to dental offices and manicul
=, shops, were located in Boston and Phi
is adelphia as well as New York.
]" 1t rested with Yankee herb doctc
on named Swain to reach the pinnacle {
- the profession. Swain had been n
y tincrant medicine vender througho,
~ ~ New England, In which capacity he ha
ns pulled teeth and performed other min(
surgical operations upon the natives I
VI tho districts through which he Travelled
:, Becoming acquainted with one of
so Complies assistants he soon learned q
lic that the Frenchman knew, and he r.
y solved to see whether American way
ue and newspaper ink would not impro,
% on the methods of Europe. He chos
- = the City Of Brotherly Love as the fiel
;, - tor his operations, and opened with ii
-, ~ glare of brass and the futtering {
~ ~ aodgers-"health and beauty" parlor
70 as he described his apartments on Ma
a. kct street. He chose as chief assistant
- pretty young Quakeress with naturi
- ~ dimple Of surprising beauty. She VIZ
= exhibited as q specimen of his handicraf
iA He did not confine himself to dimple
~ He sold powders and rouges and lotion
and had certain infa,lible recipes Il
badness and paleness and redness an
all the blemishes, real and imaginary
90 with which the bellies of the city thouSl
NJ themselves afflicted. He soon worke
en- up q good trade, and at one time he
he said to have kept two assistants bus
as dimple making, but an end came to h
IT. prosperity.
as His method Of making dimples WI
nd substantially the same as that now pra
ticed. But familiarity breeds carelcs
ue ness as well as contempt, and one da
ost when the chin Of patrician Philade
en- phia belle was In the process of dimplir
Oh n rusty scalpel was inadvertently use
on with disastrous effect. In few da.
,st the lower jaw Of that beauty was Il
la' from heightening her attractiveness. l.
Ia veil be drawn over the picture. Suffi'
IL it, her good looks were gone forever, ar
e, as she valued her appearance at $25, OF
ID 1t was rather serious matter. Swa
as was brought into court on a damage 81
u and mulcted for a moiety of that sur
nd 1t appeared in evidence that he gave
Is. guarantee to each patient to mako
ng dimple without Disagreement, and as
ID. this case he had failed lamentably In bo
as provisions Of his bond, he was charge
re- for the same. That ended his career
ms beautifier of womanlind. Chicago i
,aI ter Ocean.
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