River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-07-27
Mo.Es ON PEOPLES FACES.
Why They Are Worn. Though Easily Got
Rid Interpretations About Them.


Rid Interpretations About Them.
81 can not tell why so many people
wear moles on their faces" said a ply
stefan lately. 1T has always been a
mystery to me. They are certainly
very disfguring. One often sees a
woman. otherwise good looking. with
an unsightly excrescence on her chin
or lip, perhaps with a tuft of hairs
growing out OF it. Now, why should
that be?"
There is certainly no reason for
putting mp with such a dishgurement
nowadays 1t can easily be removed by
well-known surgical processes. II It
were NECESSARY TO resort to the knife.
the slight scar left would be infinitely
less ugly. Such an operation is almost
painless, the mole being cut in two
down the middle and extirpated in
moment. Incidentally, the hairs are
removed permanently by the destruc-
ton of the follicles from which they
grow.
But there is 2 simpler and better
method than that which can usually be
applied. A needle connected with one
pole of an electric battery is thrust
down into the center of the excres-
cence. Then the current is turned ON
for brief instant, heating the needle
white hot, and il destroys the root of
the mole There is little pain involved
and il is all over in a moment. Moles
like warts, are abnormal developments
of the skin The root being destroyed.
the growth is atrophied and quickly
disappears. never to return.
col,
an advanced stage of development,
which is attached to the skin by only a
narrow neck. To dispose of it is the
simplest matter Ia the world. Here is
little instrument which. as you will
observe, consists Of nothing more than
tube with loop of fine platinum
wire projecting from one end of 1T
The loop having been adjusted around
the mole II is drawn as tight as may be
desired BY turning this screw. Previ-
ousIy the wire passing through the
tube has been connected with battery.
The current is turned on, the wire be-
comes white hot, and of comes the
mole in second.
The term mole is likewise applied
to discolored patches of skin. The
most unsightly of these are what are
called moth patches which are COW
cred with hair. thiekly sometimes.
Such discolorations are produced by
accommodations of the ordinary pigment
/ Of the skin. They can be removed by
the application Of lunar caustic, which
| breaks up the pigment cells and de-
strovs the roots of the hair at the
same time.
Zone thing which persuades ignorant
persons to reconcile themselves to such
Disbursements, instead Of having them
removed, is a widespread popular no.
| ton to the effect that il is dangerous to
NEEDLE with them. The belief seems
| 70 be shat to do so is likely to produce
cancer. Nothing could be more absurd.
| there is also an impression very gen.
orally accepted to the effect that 1t Is
bad luck TO get rid of mole and likely
| to bring misfortune This superstition
is more or less prevalent everywhere.
1t applies particularly to birth marks.
| saw a woman on L street yesterday
who was decorated with half dozen
big excrexcences on her cheek and chin,
each bearing a tuft of hair two inches
long. and a man who sat opposite me
in a street car had a w<s2 of red beard
a foot in length sprouting from moth
patch on one side of his face, though
otherwise he was clean shaver.
Now. if you ask that man why he
allowed that carroty wisp of beard to
grow. he would probably say that cut
| ting il would be apt to bring i'll luck.
II is true that there is no use in pull
ing out superfiuous hairs. They al
ways grow again, because the true
roots remain. The only way to extr-
pate them is by the electric needle,
| which is thrust down into the bottom
| of each follicle, slight current de
| stroying the root. have known wom-
| en- TO go to great expense to have ex-
| cessive growths of hair removed from
their arms, in order that they might
wear evening dress Brunettes are
much more apt to be troubled in that
wav than blondes Washington Star-