The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-01
BEAUTY REPAIRED TO ORDER.

Toilet ParIors Where Women Go to Have
Their Faces, Hands, Feet and Hair Over
hauled.
Beauty is not skin deep. At least,
the beauty specialists say not, and in
all big cities there are w~ell-known tot
let parlors where women out of repair
go, and in a few hours have their looks
mended and renovated in a remarkable
manner.
The process begins with the mani
cure, who can pare, clean, file, bleach
and polish the most neglected finger
tips till the ugliest hand takes on a
look of symmetrical refinement aston
ishing to its owner.
Then, if desired, the clever girl will
roll up the customers sleeves to the
elbow, plunge hands and wrists in a
crystal bowl filled with warm water
and perfumed liquid soap, and give
them a genuine bath.
She rubs and kneads them, uses a
soft little brush the while, dries them
on a linen towel, applies a soothing,
-odOrless white cream, whitens them
with a vegetable preparation, touches
d liquid boraX to moisten palms,
scorches away disfiguring hair along
the forearm, and at the end of twenty
minutes produces a pair of as white,
smooth. dainty polished members as
ever beauty would ask to display below
her ball-gown sleeve.
BY making engagements to come at
regular Intervals she will treat them
till this aspect becomes permanent, and
as she works she'explains all the means
whereby at home the course of i'm.
prOvement a be kept up.
Ont of the manicure's hand the eX-
pert pedicure carries one off to a little
alcOve. The canOnS of true beauty now
read in favor of the feet that are not
only straight and seemly inside long,
well-shaped patent-leather shoes, but
satisfactory objects as well for the
owners contemplation when denuded
of all covering.
The halrdreSScr comes long after a
little and in another alcove, without
more injury to ones toilet than remov-
al of ones hat, inaugurates and exhila-
rating shampoo.
There is yet another process that is
followed by women who desire facial
treatment for wrinkles or pallor or
bl%emishing mOles, moth patches, or the
distiguring blackheads hat in the
dusty city settle into the closest woven
skins. Here with steam and electricity
the most wonderful results are accom-
plishcd. \ half hour is spent hanging
over a cloud of steam, while a firm
fingered attendant smoothes and
pinches, washes and brushes, polishes
and douches the offending features
till they glow with color and cleanli.
ness.
Now so heartily do women advocate
and benefit by this species of treatment
for good looks that those who can af-
ford it make a regular round of the
toilet parlor by appointment on certain
hours and days. They nave their own
lockers in a big dressing-room, where
they keep a flannel or white Turkish
bath robe. a pair of slippers and a COM
plete set of toilet implements for mani
cure and pedicure, hair dresser and
masseuse. Numbers of them, who be-
lieve in the truth of a pound of proven
ton, bring their school girl daughters,
too, for here the hair dresser will treat
a scant fuit for richer growth, encour.
q their eyebrows to take a deeper,
clearer line, keep n girls feet from
corns, cure her of biting her nails and
lips, and tone up a complexion that
threatens to grow coarse or thick
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