The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-23
TREATMENT OF WRINKLES.
New York Woman's Hundred ID olIar
Method of Eradication.


From the N. Y. Herald.
Now for the restoration of youth and beauty
A New York woman has recently opened a
magnificent boudoir, where she is eradcating
wrinkles at the rate of 500 per customer. That
she will make an everlasting fortune whatever
becomes of the lines of time, goes without say
ing. The conquering heroine receives her
patron in marble hall, where, seated in an old
ecclesiastical chair, with her feet on prayer
rug of venerable antiquity and holiness an ap-
pointment is made for the course of twenty
treatments and q check signed for payment in
advance. Buttons precedes the lady to her
carriage, for every woman who can afford to
buy 500 worth of wrinkle-wash is sure to have
carriage. On the appointed day the customer
is received by the parlor maid and conducted to
the boudoir, where French artistic assisted by
a couple of handmaids, takes her in charge.
Barber fashion she is seated in couch chair,
wrapped in a lavender-scented linen sheet, and
her face is washed hygienically.
What this process consists of is q secret past
finding out. The owner of it, however, saysfew
women know how to wash their faces. Said
she: "They seem to think that all that is neces-
sary is to dabble with little soap and water;
Others go to work with Turkish towel and sue
ceed in rubbing the skin off in spots there are
others who thump the very life out of the face
by massage. Now, that the face is delicate is an
admitted fact, and that it requires delicate hand
ling is natural inference, but that it is more
exposed than the hands and therefore requires
more attention is not credited or believed as q
fact. 1t is nevertheless so. The face is dirty.
There is only one place where it can be said to
be free from dust, and that is on the sea. And
even on shipboard it is smoke-stained. But to
know just how much dust and dirt lodges in the
pores of the face it is only necessary to study
the accumulations on the furniture, the pictures,
and everything in and about the houses we oc-
cupy. In washing the face good soap is used to
clean the surface, then several rinsings are re-
quired to remove the soap, and this done the
face is steamed-not heated, but steamed-to
open every pore and remove the dust with which
1t may be clogged."
Four distinct treatments, requiring two weeks
time, are consumed in the preparation of the
face. Then comes eight days of manipulation
by a specialist who understands how to pinch
and slap the face without bruising or irritating
the skin. In this process all flaccidity of muscle
and fabbiness of the flesh is worked up until
the face is firm. Various lotions and toncs are
applied, and if there are blemishes, eruptions, or
discolorations, they are treated until they dis
appear. Then comes the attack on the lines
and burrows that wrinkle the face of beauty
Baths are frequent, tonics are literally applied,
and after liquid stimulation battery is brought
in and an electric current turned into the we'll
washed face. The effect of this is to quicken
the circulation. brighten the color, and so
strengthen the muscles that they become in
fused with new life and take new hold, as it
were.
The administration of electricity is on the
same principle that q surgeon charges a
manned or withered limb if there is any life in
it. This fair electrician claims that she can
restore the smoothness to any face under sixty
| and add ten years of youth to any woman's ap-
| pearance who is not dissipated or past the al
| lotted three-score years. The beauty of the
| hygienic treatment lies in the total absence of
| cosmetics. Absolutely no makeup is used.
Nor is any attempt made to give maturity the
promise even of the bloom of sixteen. The
| claim aHa ic a nf oil 1irac &c
and discolorations from the face So far en-
| gagements are booked up to December.
How He Revives Electrocuted Mice
| From the N. Y. Star.
A cruel young friend of mine invited me to
go to his "shop," on the top floor of Madison
avenue residence, and accepted the other day.
His father is wealthy and allows the young fell
low handsome sum of money to permit him to
pursue his studies in electricity. 1t is great
fad with the youth. The steXhibition'' which
my young friend treated me to was the s'electro-
cution'' of rats and mice and theirresuscitation.
An electrc-light wire passes over the roof, and
he has made secret connection for expert
| mental purposes. He shocked several rodents
in various ways and they fell lifeless, to all ap-
pearances "Now you see they are dead" said
the little chap, and then he proceeded to bury
them in box of EARTH He left the noses of
the rats and mice sticking out of the soil, and
| When everything WAS collPieIe nc escorteu ne
down stairs to lunch. After an absence of an
hour we returned to the 'shop," and sure
enough three Of the victims showed signs of life.
The largest animal was able to crawl out of the
earth, and will probably live to be shocked
again by the cruel young scientist, who main
tains that to ''ground" an electrically shocked
animal or person is to insure their recovery,
provided the earth treatment is reSorted to
quick enough
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