Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-05-07
BEAUTY PARLORS.
REPAIR-sHoPs WHERE WOMEN
HAVE THEIR LOOKS MENDED.
Faces, Hands, Feet, and Hair Are
Regularly Overhauled Once q
Fortnight, and They Are Reno
waited in a Remarkable Manner.
fCorrespondence Of the Dispatch.)

Correspondence Of the Dispatch)
NEW YORK, May 6.-Beauty Is not
skin-deep. At least, the beauty-specialists
say not. and in all big cities there are
wel-known toilet-parlors where women
out OF repair go. and in few hours
have their looks mended and renovated
| in a remarkable manner.
The process begins with the manicure.
who can pare clean, nle, bleach, and
polish the most neglected finger~tips till
the uglest hand takes on a look OF SYM
metrical refinement astonishing to its
owner
Then. IL desired. the clever girl will
roll up the customers sleeves to the ell
bow, plunge hands and wrists In crys-
tai bowl filled with warm water and
perfumed. liquid soap, and give them
genuine bath. She rubs and kneads them,
uses a soft little brush the while, dries
them on a linen towel, applies sooth-
ing. odorless white cream. whitens them
with a vegetable preparation, touches
liquid borax to moist palms. scorches
away disfiguring hair along the forearm,
and at the end of twenty minutes pro-
duces a pair Of as white, smooth, dainty,
polished members as ever beauty would
ask TO display upon her ball-gown sleeve.
BY making engagements to come at re-
gular intervals she will treat them till
this aspect become permanent, and as
she work she explains all the means
whereby at home the course OF improve
ments can be kept UP.
THE PEDICURE.
Out OF the manicure's hand the ex-
pert pedicure carries one off to a little
a1lpua Tho If hpalIfv
read In favor of feet that are not only
straight and seemly inside long, we'll
shaped patent-leather shoes, but salts
factory objects as we'll for the owner S
contamination when denuded of all COW
ering.
II is only under the pedicure's direction
that the true luxury of the perfect foot
bath is enjoyed. In a tub full OF luke
warm. then cold saltwater. accompanied
by vigorous scrubbing. The soothed ex-
tremities are lightly touched with tai
cum powder, the nails pared and bleach
ed. and then swift, painless treatment
OF troublesome corns, Of sensitive joints.
with instruction to apply a salve where
dancing has rubbed blister or tight
shoe broken the skin, and a hot fiaxseed-
meal poultce for an infamed digit.
The hair-dresser comes along after a
little and i'm another alcoye. without more
injury to ones toilet than removal Of
ones hat, inaugurates an exhilaratlng
shampoo. A big bib OF waterproof Han
mel a few towels, and n lap-cloth are
ample protection to ones dress, while
the hair is let down, combed out, ANA
then, bending over n porcelain basin.
through spray tube the hot, soapy
water runs over the scalp, followed by
the attendants agile fingers. It's a mat
ter OF three minutes before the electric
fan is turned on the clean. damp. sweet
smelling locks, and In fifteen minutes
more the hair is dry and ready for an
application of a brlliantine that restores
the oil TO the scalp and strands. In half
| an hour the hat can be pinned on smooth
| ly-piled locks. with no danger of snee2,
ing after the thorough baptism.
FACIAL TREATMENT
There is yet another process that is fol-
| lowed by women who desire facial treat
ment for wrinkles or pallor or blemish.
| ing moles. moth patches or the distigur-
ing blackheads that in the dusty city
| settle into the cosest-woven skins. Here
with steam or electricity the most won
derfui results are accomplished. A hall
hour is spent hanging over a cloud Of
steam. while a firm-fingered attendant
.mooths and pinches. washes and brushes,
| pOlishes and douches the offending fea-
| cleanliness.
Or massage is given dry with gentle
streams of electricity coursing down from
! brow 10 chin, and the customer, at the
| end of a toilet that has lasted two hours.
sallies forth once more into the world
| feeling as though born again clean, whole,
| and new.
| Now, so heartily do women advocate
| and benefit by this species of treatment
| for good looks that those who can afford
| II make a regular round Of the toilet par
lor by appointment on certain hours and
| dayc. They have their own lockers in the
| big dressing-room, where they keep a
| flannel or white Turkish bath-robe. a
| pair Of slippers. and complete set of
| toilet implements for manicure and padi-
cure, hair-dresser, and masseuse. Num-
bers OF them, who believe in the truth Of
a pound OF prevention, bring their school
| girl daughters. too, for here the hair
| dresser Will treat a scant suit for richer
| growth. encourage their eyebrows to take
a deeper clearer line. keep girls feet
| from corns, cure her of biting her nails
and lips. and tone up n complexion that
| threatens to grow coarse or thick. The
| presiding genusAs OF these colleges OF
| beauty are always women who by their
| successful experiments, have proven that
| this Is a profitable business for members
| of their SEX since there is nothing one
! woman will more gladly purchase from
| another than "A receipt for improving or
! retaining her looks. A. 4. AUSTIN.