The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-16
COMPLEXION IMPR0VER.
Face Massage Treatment Taking the
Place of Paint and Powder.


A well-known young lady, who al
ways takes a prominent position i'll
all social events, read in the 15'aUeI1er
recently of the famous Patti being
made over" by the artistic work Of a
Sixth avenue specialist in the mass
age-treatment business, who confined
her work mainly to the diva's face.
The latter's complexion is said to have
been much improved by the treat
ment and the Boston young lady de-
cided at once to tell all her female ac-
quaintances of the discovery and thus
look for a great improvement in their
| countenances without the use of the
usual harmful cosmetics.
Her announcement met with instant
favor among the girls, and they de-
cided to visit a well-known mass
ageure,n who occupies an elegant suite
of rooms on fremont street.
The ''massageure" in question was
somewhat surprised at the object of
the girls visit, but at once saw a
chance to increase the number OF her
patients by adopting the new meth
cd, and soon was perfectly familiar
with the scheme reported by the
girls.
Before they left each had received
the first part of the treatment, which
was similar to the general message
work, consisting Of pinching all parts
of the face. the fingers of the operator
being moistened with a cooling and
sweet-smelling lotion. This was fol-
lowed by a thorough rubbing of all
parts of the face, and for at least five
rt,irarfac nffor t1n arNornfOr hnd
finished her treatment the face of
the patient resembled the sides of
a thoroughly boiled lobster. Gradu-
ally, however, the face assumed its
natural color. The advocates of the
face treatment declare positively that
after four or five visits to the mas
sageuren the complexion takes on a
decidedly handsome hue, one which
it is almost impossible to produce in
any other way. After q patient has
been through the treatment and her
complexion appears as much improved
as could be desired it is only neces-
sary for her TO visit the 'smassageure"
once or twice a month to keep her
complexion fully up to the standard
of excellence
The effect of the face massage
treatment tends to. keep the blood
well to the surface of the cheeks, and
to make it visible through a thin
coating of paint or powder. Thus
the new fad is less injurious to the
system than many unnatural methods
SO long adopted by fashionable wo-
men, and for that reason may receive
the appropriation of many persons
opposed to enforcing nature to add to
beauty.
The TraUeller man also called upon
a well-known fremont street massage
specialist for the purpose Of adding to
his stock of information Of the new
complexion improver. The lady Wis
tied said that she had a good many
patients who wanted their faces beau
titled, and there seemed to be no
doubt about the practical working of
the new remedy. ut makes business
quite lively most of the time" the
s'massageuren said, and we are do
ing our best to satisfy the girls and
women who do not like the complex
ion nature provides for them. The
treatment is certainly much sem
sible and healthy than the applica-
ton of poisonous paint and powder.
We hope that it will become general,
and the number of new patients we
are receiving seems to indicate that it
will be-"
Inquiry at several stores where the
sale of paint and powder for the
beautifying OF the complexion is
made a speciality. certainly indicated
the massage treatment had already
resulted in a marked lessening of the
demand for the paint and powder
remedies Boston IrGyelle2.
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Good Cause for Astonishment.
Newspaper men and others accus-