The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-09

into large sunny operating parlor where
the secrets of many complexions are re-
vealed hourly, but the dermatologist is
prompt and business-like. She hands you
into capacious reclining chair under a
window, screws 1t to the right elevation,
runs up the yellow shade till a strong
white hight is brought to bear on your
face, and proceeds to examine every inch
of nose, chin, cheeks and brow through a
powerful magnifying glass. She does it
all with as pittleSS a disregard for your
feelings as though you were a turnip."
Does she accept all the patients who
applyg' was asked.
mo, indeed. She says where ones heart
Is weak or the skin disorded through inn
purities of the blood, or the patient Is
very much out Of health. she won't apply
her treatment at ALL If, however, the in
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 Inundated visage
is roundly blistered by a warm current
transmitted through a queer-looking
sponge. This is daintily manipulated
from brow to chin and from ear to ear
1T must feel pretty nasty" was sug-
gested.
ing lively little mustard plaster, not ex-
actiy severe enough to merit tears, nor,
the electrician tells you, to call for any
administration of an anaesthetic Thus,
just about the time you feel you could
not endure am iota more of electrical
sponging the current is turned off and
to put your face into a curious sort OF
plaster. 1t sticks closer than a brother
is not a pleasant Jacket for ones features,
and when it's all on you are charged to go
home at once and remain indoors for three
days"
but suppose you don't wish to go home?
That is, you don't care to have your hus-
band and family see you in the guise of
masked lady. What them"
Just tell the electrician about it and she
will do your head up in a veil, put you in
a cab and send you off into happy seclu-
sion in her own house. Here rooms are
prettily fitted up and let out to the wo-
men who are growing into their new COM
pleXions.
For three or four days this first stiff
drawing plaster is worn, and then comes
the second and last treatment. The plaS-
er is gently removed, and with it comes
off every flake of your old wrinkled cuti-
Gle, having the flesh beneath rendered as
tender as that of a newborn baby. Inn
mediately, however, a second plaster Is
applied, light soothing one, and direct
ly it goes on nature begins to spread on a
brand-neW epldermis, to replace the old
scarf skin. When at the end of three days
the last plaster is lifted off you find to
your joy and establishment that your COM
pleXion presents almost the exact appear
ance of a 16-year-old girls. 1t sounds like
fairy tale, but the truth is that after an
electrical treatment the skin grows back
just as f1ne or coarse in grain, just as rosy
or divinely pale and just as absolutely
free of wrinkles as ever you knew it in
your youth.
This boon to womanhood was first dis
covered, the electrician tells me, by an
Australian physician, who had an idea
wrinkles didn't extend below the epider-
mis-, and that if he could peel off the scarf
skin nature would grow out another and
perfect surface to take it's place. or
course, his first efforts were clumsy, but
they proved the truth of his theory and
more, too, for with further elaborate in
designations and experiments it has been
found that a woman of so can shed her
wrinkles as easily as one of Is, and that
by taking two treatments at intervals
of twenty years one can successfully drop
into grandmotherhood, even dotage, and
never show so much as a line or a quicker.
Here in America the dermatologist in
formed me that wrinkles, like white hair,
are not always a sign of age. Many a
German, English, Scandinavian or Scotch
matron can, she says, display a satin
smooth countenance at So when her
American sister at 40 shows pitifuf
wreck of her youthful roses. Climatic IN
f1uences with us are much to blame.
ours is a hard, dry atmosphere, she
says and subject to such violent changes
that the cuticle is alternately contract
ed and expanded beyond a healthful limit.
The foods we eat have also much to do
with early pickering OF young faces.
Massage, steam baths, skilful nesh
kneading or the use of soft electric hesh
brushes are advised for those whose skin
is not sufficiently corrugated to guaran-
antee removal. But when the worst
does come in the form of heavy creases,
folds and deep indentations. under the
magnifying glass the skin shows callouS
in some spots. thin and ragged in others;
warped drawn, shriveled and stretched
like an old piece of leather.
Then it is that, like benign fairy god
mother. electricity comes to the rescue
and neatly and mysteriously obliterates
every trace of times handwriting.
Rev. Phoebe Hanaford. a very cour-
ageous New York Feformer, believes wo-
men should be appointed on the police
force; Miss Hanaford is emphatic II, IN