Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-01-29
FOR THE FADED BELLIES.
CLEAR coMpLExIoNs MADE TO
ORDER.
Treating the Faces of Fashionable
City DANES to a Steam Bath and
Massage-A New "Wrinkle."

quence of keeping late hours
and breathing the heated atmosphere
of crowded rooms has always been the
difficulty of retaining a youthful COM
plexion. The New York society dame
has long wished for some method of
overcoming the law of nature which
goes into effect under the circum-
stances indicated, and it would seem
that measure of relief is at hand.
There is in that city a shrine of beauty
over which presides lady eminent in
the art of making women distractingly
fascinating. The lady holds daily re-
ception in magnificent psrlors at
Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue,
where women, young and old, pretty
and ugly, receive the benefit of her
knowledge of subject dear to every
feminine heart-how to have good
complexion. A female reporter for the
New York World entered the place few
days ago in search of beauty and was
received by bright-faced, rosy
checked girl.
81 want to see someone who will tell
me what / require to give me good
complexion" said the seeker.
After inviting the visitor to be
seated in a cosy corner draped with
bamboo curtains, with its furnishings
of Turkish chairs, and a table upon
which was steaming teapot and dainty
china tea cups, the girl went to the
other end of the room, returning with
a tall, stately woman, dressed in black.
This was the high-priestess of the
shrine. The high priestess avowed
her power to scare untimely wrinkles
from the marble forehead of any too
thoughtful lady. She laughed at the
idea of ladies Tor gentlemen, either,
for that matter), having pimples,
freckles, blotches or other dis6gure-
ments on their faces, when nature and
art had combined and placed secret
for their entire eradication at her dis
posal. She led the seeker to corner
of the parlor, and throwing aside q
screen of Persian tapestry disclosed
private apartment.
'This," said she, pointing to an
elaborate silver apparatus on the
table in the centre, "is the greatest
invention of the age for administering
medicated steam baths to the neck
and face. By its use guarantee that
any lady who will put herself under
my care shall be free from wrinkles,
shall have smooth, velvety skin-a
bright complexion-without the use
of any cosmetics and shall look at
least ten years younger than she really
is"
A natty crimson silk cap was placed
over the seekers hair, and she was
told to lie back at ease, with her face
directly in front of the trumpetlike
end of the tube, whence the steam was
elected. The seeker settled back in
the chair, comforted with the good
news that hers was not ahopeless case,
and waited for the operation to begin
The first thing the operator did was to
sponge her face thoroughly with a To-
tion, explaining, as she did so, that its
object was to open the pores of the
skin and to expel all foreign matter
and "blackhead" impurities She let
it dry on. Next she rubbed cream all
over the face, after which she gently
massaged it, beginning first with the
cheeks, rubbing around and around,
explaining that it made them firm and
plump. On the forehead she rubbed
straight across the lines. All around
the eyes she massaged very thoroughly,
saying that it was to remove crows
feet. Sometimes she pinched the
face, but it was all done soothinRly
and gently.
After the massage came the import
ant feature of the treatment, the steam
ing. One end of huge Turkish towel,
the other end of which was fastened
over the tube of the apparatus was ex-
tended over the seekers head, making
a sort of funnel connection between
her face and the tube.
"Close your eyes. said the attend
ant, and in minute the seeker felt on
her face the perfumed steam, which
came out of the tube in volume. 1t
grew hotter and hotter.
'How long was it? ?" asked the seeker,
with a sigh of relief.
"Only fifteen minutes, and your face
is as rosy as peach.
81 should think it would be-" ans
wered the seeker, wondering ii "rosy
as peach" was not the polite way of
saying it was as red as lobster.
From bottles, powder puffs and the
appurtenances indispensable to such
treatment the attendant took cellu-
loid knife, resembling a paper cutter,
and began to scrape off the cream. To
her surprise and slight modification
the seeker noticed the cream, which,
when put on her face was perfectly
white, came of decidedly dirty brown.
Feeling that some explanation was
necessary, she remarked, apologeti-
cally, 81 suppose that discoloration is
due to natural accumulation of dust. :"
"Not at all, )" answered the little wo-
man briskly. SIT is dirt which has
been clogged up in your pores for
months.
The operator continued: "Steaming
is the only thing which will dissolve
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