The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-05
A FACE ABLUTioNIsT.
The Latest Successful Profession Adopted
by a Woman in London.

] The Latest Successful Profession Adopted
by Woman in London.
At present there is but one lady face
ablutionist in London, and she began
timidly in a remote corner Of the me-
tropolis to let a few friends know that
she had system by which beauty could
be preserved forever, and wrinkles Tor
that much more intellectual word.
thought creases) gently rubbed away,
never to return. Such a fascinating light
was too bright to be hidden under bush
Ell. For the sake of society it seemed
wicked to conceal her secret. Urged.
therefore, by the constantly increasing
number of applications for her remedy,
she took handsome rooms in handsome
quarter and boldly announced her new
profession. Her success was marvellous.
Lady after lady came, saw and was alb
lutioned.
For $1.82-seven shillings and sixpence
IN English money-old oryoung could be
made beautiful Who would resist it?
The process was very simple, there was
nothing of the charlatan about it. It
rested on a scientific thesis, as the fair
lady deliberately explained while she
powdered and pinched, and pinched and
powdered. We all know that to be sci
entlfc is the craze of the day, and when
to be scientific means to be beautiful as
well-what more can mortal want?
During the first three months the face
ablutionist coined at the rate of 60 900 a
year. AS the business developed she took
ladies to train as assistants, enlarged her
premises, furnishing them sumptuously;
and not the least interesting part of the
performance was the period of waiting
In dimly lighted apartment, fragrant
with rare exotics, melodious from the
carols of birds in gilded cages, the walls
adorned with dainty bric-a-brac, the
tables loaded with modern literature.
pleasing if not profound.
Friendships have been begun in that
aesthetic anteroom which have influenced
the after life of many. Titled ladies are
not ashamed to have their carriages seen
waiting In the street below, and the
humber pedestrian runs up the stairs,
with heightened glow in her cheeks
which is the glow of pleasurable antici-
patton, not sham.
The face ablutioning lasts but fifteen
minutes. After being enveloped in the
conventional white sheet, the fair visage
is first submitted to rapid sponging
from sponge dipped in the hotted water
This is to break and crack the outer skin
OF the face; for the theory is that wrin-
kles are only on the surface, and that if
the first skin is removed the one under
meath will be smooth and even. Then
comes a smearing with glycerine, Wig
orous massaging of the physiogomy till
the friction seems to have set every pore
In feverish action; more hot water, more
face emolients, more scrubbing Qess Wig
orous this time), some powder, some
scent, and you rise, feeling hot and un-
but with the satisfaction
that you have done your duty valiantly
and will be rewarded for it. A peach |
bloom complexion is after all worth some
amount of face manipulation and the
of being scrubbed.
The lady face ablutionist asserts that
she has as many applications from men
as from women for sitting, but she |
sternly refuses to let them participate in !
the benefits she confers on her own sex.
Cor. Philadelphia Times.