Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-17
MOLES ON PEOPLES FACES
why They Are Worn, Though Easily Go,
Kid Interpretations About Them.

| my hTe worn, though Easily Go
| Kid Interpretations About Them
CANNOT TELL YOU WHY so MANY
| people wear moles on their faces" said a
physician to writer for The STAR. at has
always been a mystery to me. They are GER
tainly very disiguring. One often sees n
woman, otherwise good looking. with an un.
slightly excrescence on her chin or lip. perhaps
with tuft of hairs growing out of it. Now,
why should that be?
Ihere Is certainly no reason for putting IN
with such Disagreement nowadays. 1t can
easily be removed by well-known surgical
processes. II 1t were necessary to resort to
the knife, the slight scar left would be infinitely
less ugly. Such an operation is almost pain
less, the mole being cut in two down the middle
ana extirpated in a moment. Incidentally, the
hairs are removed permanently by the destruc-
ton OF the folicles from which they grow.
But there is a simpler and better method
than that which can usually be applied. A
needle connected with one pole of an electric
battery is thrust gently down into the center OF
the exerescence. Then the current is turned
on for brief instant. heating the needle white
hot. and 1t DESTROYS the root of the mole
There is very little pain involved and 1t is all
over In a moment Moles. like warts. are alb
III.
ing DESTROYED the growth is atrophied and
quickly disappears, never to return.
sometimes You will see a mole in an ad-
vanced stage OF development. which is attached
to the skin only by a very narrow neck. To
dispose OF 1t is the simplest matter in the world
mere Is little instrument which, rs YOU will
observe. consists OF nothing more than a tube
with loop OF fine platinum wire projecting
from one end of it. The loop having been adj.
justed around the mole il is drawn as tight as
may be desired by turning this screw. Preyi-
ossly the wire passing through the tube has
peen connected with a battery. The current is
turned on, the wire becomes white hot and off
comes the mole in a second
ihe term mole Is likewise applied TO dis
colored patches of skin. The most unsichtly of
these are wha! are called moth patches which
are covered with hair, very thickly sometimes.
such discolora.ions are produced by accunu-
lations of the ordinary pigment of the skin
They can be removed by the application of
lunar caus;ic. which breaks up the pigment
cells and destroys the roots of the hairs at the
same time.
"One thing which persuades ignorant per-
sons to reconcile themselves to such disigure-
ments. instead OF having them removed, is a
widespread popular notion 20 the effect that il
Is dangerous to NEEDLE with them The belief
seems to be that to do so is likely to produce
career. Nothing could be more absurd There /
Is also an impression very generally accepted 10
and likely to bring misfortune This supersti- |
ton Is more or less prevalent everywhere. 1t |
applies particularly TO birth marks Isawa |
woman on street yesterday who was deco |
rated with half dozen big excrescences on her |
cheek and chin. each bearing n turf of hair two |
inches long. and a man who sat opposite me In a |
street car had wisp of red beard a foot in |
ength sprouting from a moth patch on one /
side of his face, though otherwise he was clean |
,haven.
NOW, IL You asked that man why he allowed |
hat carrosty wisp of beard to grow, ne would
probably say that cutting it would be apt to
bring i'll luck. 1t is true that there is 10 use In
pulling out superiuous hairs. They ALWAYS
,row again, because tie true roots remain. The
'rly way TO extirpate them is by the electric
,ecde, which is thrust down into the bottom of
zach follicle, a sigh: current DESTROYING the
DOT have known women 20 go to great ex-
'ense to have excessive crowths of hairs re-
moved from their arms, in order that thew
night wear evening dress Brunettes are
much more apt to be troubled in that way than
,loIdes,'