St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-03
MASSAGE OF The FACE
The Newest Fad Among the
Fashionables Of Mime
apolis.
A Lady's Experience in TAX
ing the Treatment Re-
lated by Herself.
The Secret of Cheeks Like
Roses Created by Natural
Means.
The Latest Craze Of Women
Of Leis ure and Money
Explained.


bare living, now he may be said to lux
uIiate; and he even has the audacity to
keep many fine lady waiting her turn
In his chair.
This is what the command of fad in
Gotham will do for one.
When Western women first read of it,
they ridiculed the bare idea, but they
have actually ended by embracing it,
and are giving supporting patronage to
an artist in the profession, who came to
Minneapolis directly from New York a
few months ago.
Who can blame the women or wonder
at their yagaries? They realize full
well that beauty is power. and what
ever enhances beauty increases power.
a visit to Nine. Lenolie'S parlOrS in
the Guaranty Loan building discOses
the fact that it is a bright little woman,
with decidedly French airs, WHO has in
troduced among US this new feature Of
the toilette.
Madam is very busy, and the maid
gives you chair in the outer room to
wait y1ur opportunity. There is table
III til pom covered with various tot
lette ~ paratiOnS ready for purchasers.
IheSO tSu examine leiSurely, while you
are KEEP waiting. Dainty packages of
soap, little pots and jars of cream, bot
ties Of toilette water and perfumes
whose OdOr family reaches your nos
trilS; and under the combined influence
of these tempting articles you clutch
your purse nerV0uSly and wish you
had S25 to squander recklessly.
At last the patient goes and madam is
ready to see you. But you do not know
exactly how to begin. Would madam
be kind enough to tell yen something of
face massage? You have read of it,
heard it talked of very much lately, and
you do not really know whether you
want TO try it or not. Of course you do
not suppose yourself beautiful beyond
her skill to improve it, but - Oh, yes.
madam understands exactly; certainly
she Will answer your questions; is, in
fact, delighted to do so. and invites you
into the inner room, where you may sit
costly and chat until her next patient
arrives, feeling that you have her entire
sympathy and are not being secretly
laughed at for your vanity.
At first you are horritied to learn how
many things you have been doing with
the idea Of self-imprOvement which
are absolutely ruinOuS to beauty I'M
der the light of modern criticism, but
after a while you grow more comfOrta-
BILE when you hear what marvellous
things can be done TO plain woman.
mo, no, my dear" says madam,
"Hou must not use those lotions on
your face indiScrminately which are
designed for healing sore aud chapped
conditions of the skin; they are too
strong in their nature. Vaseline, cold
cream, or any lotion of that nature,
will cause down to grow on your face,
which it is dangerous to attempt to re-
move, and utterly impossible to entirely
eradicate. The first attempt may seem
to be successful, but the hairs will come
back cOarSer and stronger in their
growth"
The patient expected does not keep
her appointment promptly, and after
waiting a few moments beyond the hour
you ask If you may not have the time
for a treatment. Madam looks at her
watch and out at the driZZling rain, then
says she thinks you may.
The curtains are drawn and you hand
your wraps to the maid. A chair is
placed for you in front of a marble
basin, through which hot water is flow
Ing. Towels are tucked in around your
throat to protect your apparel and
towel is given you to hold over your
head something like canopy. This is
for the purpose of combining the steam
over which you bend your face to soften
the cuticle. This is the unpleasant part
of the operation, as you discover before
the fifteen or twenty minutes of endur-
ance are over, but who would not en-
dure fortunes unspeakable for the
worthy cause of acquiring beauty.
When you are released from this pur-
gatoxY you are placed in a reclining
chair, just as If you are going to have a
tooth drawn, only you have the restful
assurance that nothing torturous is
about to follow. Madam sponges your
chest with alcohol that you may not
take cold on going out, and wipes your
face gently with soap and water and
soft cloth. After your face is thorough
ly cleaused it is covered with myS-
ferrous ointment and the massage be-
gins, The delightful, soothing strokes
from the delicate, firm fingers pass over
your face and your eyelids droop with
languOrouS pleasure. 1t seems to me-"
you say, ''that one must need some
thing of intelligence in ones finger tips
to succeed in this work."
Madam gives a silvery little laugh
and says, "YOu have it exactly, my
dear; good massageur must know the
anatomy and physiology of the skin,
also of the nerves and muscles. No two
people come to me with exactly the same
conditions Of the skin, and so | cannot
advise in general way as to what will
be best for application. l must first see
my patient" You commence remark,
but are Interrupted; do not lift your
eyebrows in that fashion; it does not
help your expression, and you are bring
Ing back those horizontal lines as fasta as
can efface them"
"Do. you really take away the
wrinklesM you ask.
Eyes, but my work is likely to be I'M
done unless decided effort Is made to
correct contracted habits of scowling
and squirting. This preparation that l
am usipg now contains an astringent,
which contracts the skins, and also
uovrshing properties which feed the
starved creaseS in the flesh" All this
time the fingers are working gently
around the orbit of the eye, resting the
tired nerves of sight, and you feel that
Rll your resolutions to learn to do 1t