The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-03
HYGIENE TREATMENT oFwRlNkLe1
a New York Woman Has n Hundred Dol
lar Method OF Eradication.

( a New York Woman Has n Hundred Doll
lar Method OF Eradication.
a New York woman has opened a mag
/ nltcent boudoir where she Is Graduating
/ wrinkles at the rate Of 500 per customer.
| That she will make an everlasting fortune,
whatever becomes OF the lines of time, goes
without saying
The conquering heroine receives her
patron in a marble hall, where, seated in
/ old ecclesiastical chair, with her feet on a
! prayer rug Of venerable antiquity and
holiness, an appointment is made for the
course Of twenty treatments and a check
signed for payment in advance. Buttons
precedes the lady 70 her carriage, for every
woman who can afford to buy 500 worth
OF wrinkle wash is sure TO have q carriage.
On the appointed day the customer Is
received by the parlor maid and conducted
TO the boudoir, where a French artistic. as
sisted by couple OF landmarks, takes her
in charge. Barber fashion she is seated n
q couch chair, wrapped in a lavender
scented linen sheet and her face Is washed
hygienically.
What this process consists Of Is a secret
past finding out. The owner Of il, however,
says few women know how TO wash their
faces.
Said she: ''They seem 10 think that all
that is necessary is 70 dabble with little
soap and water; others go 10 work with
Turkish towel and succeed IN rubbing the
skin of in spots; there are others who
thump the very life out Of the face by
massage
"Now, that the face Is delicate is an adj
mitted fact, and that it requires delicate
handling Is a natural inference; but that
it Is more exposed than the hands, and
therefore requires more attention, Is not
credited or believed as fact. IL IL never
theless 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 il is smoke stained But 10
know just how much dust and dirt lodges
in the pores Of the face IL is only necessary
to study the Accommodations on the furni-
ture, the pictures and everything ia and
about the houses we occupy
I'm washing the face good soap is used
TO elean the surface Then several rinsings
are required TO remove the soap, and this
done the face is steamed, not heated, but
steamed 20 open every pore and remove the
dust with which it may be elogged
-Four distinct treatments requiring two
weeks time are consumed in the prepare
ton Of the face. .rhen come eight days
of manipulation by "A specialist who under
stands how 10 pinch and slap the face with
out bruising or irritating the skin. In this
process all haccidity OF muscle and flabbi-
ness of the flesh is worked up until the
face il firm Various lotions and tonics
are applied, and If there are blemishes.
eruptions or diScolorations they are treated
until they disappear.
Then comes the attack on the lines and
burrows that wrinkle the face OF beauty.
Baths are frequent, tonics are literally APP
piled, and after liquid stimulation a hat |
terry Is brought in and an electric current !
turned into the well washed face. The |
effect of this IL to quicken the circulation. |
brighten the color and so strengthen the !
muscles that they become infused with |
new life and take a new hold. a. it were
The administration of electricity IL on /
the same principle that a surgeon charges !
a MANNED OF withered limb II there is any !
life in it. This fair electrician claims that /
she can restore thesmoothness 70 any face !
under sixty and add ten years OF youth 10 !
any woman's appearance who is not dissi- /
pated or past the allotted three score years. /
The beauty Of the hygienic treatment |
lies in the total absence Of cosmetics Alb =
solutely no make mp is used Nor il any /
attempt made to give maturity the prom /
Use even OF the bloom Of sixteen. The claim |
made is the removal Of all lines. spots and /
from the face New York /
World.