Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-11-09
WRINKLES REMOVED TO ORDER.
Fresh Processes for Making Old People Look
Younger.

Fresh Processes for Making Old People Look
Younger.
ssDHYSICAL CULTURE FOR BEAUTY Is
Il a science of the future" said a fashion,
able Washington physician to writer for The
STAR. ALREADY important advances have been
made in this line Of discovery, some of which I
VIII mention TO you presently. But the time
will come when young women will he regularly
reared from childhood for pulchritude. Even
now that idea is being followed ont to some
extent by the athletic and hygienic trimming
of girls from their earliest years. There is no
possible doubt of the fact that the female Of
our species is a handsomer creature today than
ever before in the history of the world Never
has prettiuess in the fair sex been SO common.
might say usual, in youth as now. Further
more, what may be called the season of beauty
in women is extending progressively beyond
the period of mere girlhood. and physical
charms arc preserved until later periods of life
than hitherto.
MAKING BEAUTIES TO ORDER.
$50 far has the knowledge in these matters
gone that an ugly little girl may be taken now
and turned into beauty. 1 do not say that
such a result can always be obtained from any
raw material, but it can often be done. Take
sallow, freckled child, all bands and feet and
ankles subject her to proper conditions for
health and development. and she may suddenly
burst into loveliness. Her skin becomes clear,
she gains flesh, and with the roundness appro-
PIRATE to youth she acquires grace. What I have
called beauty culture need not be confined to
perpetuating and making the most of physical
charms. Is should be able TO create them also
within certain limitations. You are probably
aware that nowadays surgical art is able even TO
alter the shape of the nose as TO transform
bad feature into good one. Also when good
Looks have been lost il is often practicable to
restore them il degree.
WRINKLES.
"For example, there is scarcely anything so
destructive of beauty wrinkles Methods
for removing wrinkles have been discovered, so
thai those unpleasant signs OF advancing age
can be got rid of 10 a certain extent You must
remember that wrinkles come from variety of
causes. They commonly signify a shrinking of
tissue beneath the skin. 1t NAV be merely the
subcutaneous fatty tissue that shrinks. causing
the skin to fall into lines and folds or the mus
Giles themselves may lose in bulk When an
over-ripe orange begins TO dry up. the contrac-
ton of its substance makes its skin assume
wrinkled appearance all over. like phenonl-
enon you can also frequently observe in the
face of an old man or old woman. or in the
hands OF elderly persons. The wrinklinC of a
dried-up apple strikingly resembles that Of a
human beings skin in extreme old age. The
cause is practically the same. being the shrink
ing OF the flesh beneath in both cases.
NOT FROM AGE ALONE.
However, wrinkles are not caused bv age
alone. They are produced by sickness and
trouble. 1t often happens that a pretty woman
rises from bed after a severe illness to discover
with horror that her beauty is spoiled by fresh
lines and burrows; Pain quickly leaves lite
mark on the face. For this and other reasons
people are apt to be ANNOYED by such disfigure-
ments when youth is hardly passed Up 10 the
present time they have been regarded as ir-
remediable. Happily, the are not necessarily
80. On the contrary, as have said much can
be done to remove wrinkles. An individual may
even get rid OF crows feet abou: the eyes or
wrinkles at the corners Of the mouth by the aid
OF a few weeks proper treatment. But such
wrinkles as those are occssioned in great meas
ure by habitual muscular movemeuts which
naturally produce creases in course of time. OF
course IL Is the same why with the forehead,
set making the skin fold horizontally and the
other perpendicularly. You can observe it for
yourself II you will look in the glass.
HOW THEY MAY RE REMOVED.
snow, from whatever causes the wrinkles
may proceed the method Of removing them is
the same. 1t is always based on the theory
that the creases can be taken out by pumping
the flesh beneath the skin. This is ac-
complished mainly by means of massage. By
giving the muscles artificial exercise they are
stimulated to growth and development 1t ia
just as il you were to take the crinkles out Of
an insufficiently filed cushion by stuffing it,
For instance, a lady about thirty-ive years
Of age, who il a patient Of mine. recently got
up from a sick bed weighing twenty-five
pounds less than what had been her former
avoirdupois. One result Of this in place
Of the plump roundness beneath her chin there
were folds Of wrinkled flesh. 1put her in the
hands of an expert masseuse, who within a few
weeks restored the wasted muscular tissue to
nearly its former contour, 80 that now the
wrinkles are nearly gone. Of course, she has
meanwhile been taking on flesh at the same
time through proper exercise and healthfui
diet
1EcRUITINo TIE TISSUE.
"But to remove wrinkles il Is most i'm ,ortaut
that the subcutaneous fatty tissue should be
recruited. II il the shrinkage of that which
chiefly causes the skin Of elderly people to be-
come furrowed and scanned lust a. In the
dried-up apple, which I used very appropri-
stely for the purpose Of comparison Now, re-
cent discovery has been made Of Q substance
which has the very peculiar property, when APP
piled TO the skin, OF making it, way through
the cuticle and fatssuing the connective tissue
beneath. II you VIM take hold Of the akin Of
the back OF your hand between your thumb and
fors6ngsr you WIN and list Il = readily lifted