The morning times., 1896-02-02
HoW TO Preserve
Your Beauty
FACIAL ELECTRICIANS CAN NOW
DELIBERATE WRINKLES.
Any Woman May Grow Smooth
Rosy Skin-Seams and Crow
feet Burned Off.

My dear, il beauty is but skin deep,
electricity proves that ugliness extends
nn deeper, at least 50 far as wrinkles are
| cuucerncd.'
This comforting assurance was una de
by matron who met her best friend on
the corner the other day and displa yed
under the mercilcss morning sun, a face
as smooth and rosy as that OF a school
| girl. or course. the best friend demanded
instantly Ia know the cause of this mar
| veious reiuvenatioD; how long it had
| required To- eradicate lines or crowsreet,
aud when they might be- expected t. re-
| turn.
The cause was electricity. as 1 suG-
ges,cd before" explained the matron ami
ably, ''aud 1t took just one week for me
To put off every pucker in my countenance
/ have shed them pretty much on the same
principle that IA sLake gets rid uf his Sd in.
aud now / confidently look forward TO at
least fifteen years more Of wear and tear
in this wicked world before another seam
or wrinkle mars my nice, beautiful skin"
Though. I'm not saving you need it.
dear, went on the good-naiured lady,
wiiha sly little wink, PERHAPS you wouldn't
mind hearing Just how it is done. My
experience proves that there is no longer
the smallest excuse for wOfnan's ever
showing her age and the ravages OF care
in withered check"
Urged to 20 into detail tho experiInentcr
continued: Last week / surrendered my
self, ON the advice of a sympathetic ac-
quaintancr, TO the tender ncrcies OF an
expert. facial ciectrician-Daturally not
a man, bu 1 u tall, dIgI!fied young spinster
in rustling silk gown, whose big gray
eyes looked as if they cou I'd see right through
the tbickest sort OF veil and whose hands
Noticed seemed as strong Il Il black smiths
and as fine as a lace makers"
Why, ny dear, her waiting room was
crowded us like that OF q fashionable
with women done up in stout
tissue and grenadine face coverings, for
the marvellous achievements of this scicn-
tfic dernIai olOgist are becoming known
In the land"
what did they 90 rirst?" inquired the
absorsed listener.
Behind the waiting room one is
shown into "a large sunny operating par
lor where the secrets OF many complex
ions are revealed Lourly. but the dcInia-
tOiogisU is prompt and buslness-.ike. She
hands you INTO q CapaCiOus reclining chair
under window, screws 1t 10 the right
elevation, runs UP Ike yellow shade III
a strong white light is brought to bear
on your face, and proceeds to examine
every inch Of your nose, chin, cheeks, and
brow through a powerful nagnifying glass.
She does it all with Us piti!ess disre-
gard for your feeling as though you were
q turnip.''
DOCS sire accept ali the patients who
apply" was asked.
No, indeed. She says where ones heart
is weak or the skin diSor,tered through I'M
purities Of the blood, or the patient is
very much out of health she wont apply
her treatment at all. II. however, the liz
spection proves that you are ripe sub
ject for an electric cure. the stands sup
porting big batteries are rolled up along
side the chair and your humiliajcd visage
is roundiy blistered by warm current
through a queer looking PONCE.
This is daintily manipulated back and
forth on the surface-of the skin from brow
TO chin and from ear TO ear
1T must feel pretty nasty was sug-
gested.
why. the sensation is very like that of
wearing a li.ely little mustard blister. not
exactly severe enough TO merit tears. nor,
the electrician tells you, to call for any
tion OF an anesthetiC. Thus,
just about the time you feel you could
not endure an iota more of electrical
sponging the current is turned off and
the dermaiologist. prompt
y begins to put your face into a curious
sort of plaster 1t sticks closer than Il
brother. is not pleasant jacket for ones
'eatures, and when it's all on you are
:harged to go home at once and remain in
Dors for three days"
But suppose you don't wish to go
lone. That is, YOU don't care to have
-our husband and family see you in the
.uise of masked lady. What them"
Just tell the electrician about 1t and
he will do your head up in n veil. PIT
-ou in a cab and send you off int, happy
eclusiur in her own house. Here ruOms
ire prettily fitted up and let out to the
NOtneIl WHO 6tDNlht Ut"
,ompiexi ons.
For three or four days this first stiff
rawing plaster is worn, and then cuTnes
he second and last treatment The plaster
s gently removed. and with il comes Of
very flake of your old wrinkled article,
aving the flesh beneath rendered as ten
Ter as that of n newborn baby. Imme-
iateiy. however, 4 second plaster is ap-
lied. a light, soothing one, and directly
goes on nature begins to spread on a
rand new cpidernis To replace the old
CART skin When at the end of three days
he last plaster is lifted off you find to
our joy and astunishment that your COM
lexicon presents almost the exact appear
nee of a sixteen-year-old girls. 1t sounds
Ike fairy tale. hut the truth is that after
n electrical treatment the skin grows
ack lust as fine OF coarse in grain. just
s rosy OF divinely pale. and lust as alb
,luteiy free of wrinkles as ever you knew
in your youth.
This boon to womankind was first dis
Dveret. the electrician tells me. by an Aus
allan physician who had an idea
-rinkles didn't extend below the epiderrniS.
nd that IL he could peel off the scarf skin
,ture would grow out another and
erfect surfa ce TO take its place. or
,urse. his first efforts were clumsy, but
ey proved the truth of his theory. and
ore, too, for with further elaborate in
.stirations and experiments it has been
,und that woman OF eighty can shed her
rinkles rs easily rs one of twcnty-richt.
nd that by taking two treatments at in
rivals OF twenty years one can success