The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-23
A BEAUTY TALK
BY SAUCY BESS
Women Who Never Talk 10 Their Mir.
rors, but Make Grimaces.
lNFALLlBLE RULE FOR NO WRINKLES
How to Manage That Furrowed
Brow-.The Advice of n Practical
Mnsseuse--The Fatal Drop of the
Chin--A Method for Obliterating
Harsh Lines at the Corners of the
Mouth.

SO many people have signified their
interest in the proposed series of ar
ticles on facial massage and have asked
so many questions concerning special
treatment of the face and neck that
it has been thought advisable to give
an opportunity for inquiries and re-
plies. Hereafter this column will con-
tain such questions with as full answers
to the same as possible. Those con-
tanning queries obviously unavailable
for publication, in that requests are
made for the names of firms, dealers,
brands of toilet preparations, etc., will
be answered by mail if a stamp is en-
closed to the writer of these articles
for reply.
To continue the subject as began
two weeks ago: Just a. word of ad-
vice to the young woman whose face
is as yet unlined by time, but which
may soon show traces of emofions or
habit. The only sure way to avoid the
acquisition of wrinkles is to never
think, never feel never weep, never
smile. If you can live in the world and
not do any of these your brow will be
as smooth as that of a madonna in
pastel Your dimples will never settle
into sharpened lines, the crows feet
ners of your eyes to deepen in mo-
ments of merriment or grief. But it
Will not be life you will lead, after all,
it will be sort of hibernation neither
lovely nor useful We admire the calm
soft look in the eyes OF a COW, but the
placidity of her existence is not a con-
dition to be envied. Wrinkles and
crows feet are not the calamitieS to
be most dreaded in the world and the
character lines that gradually slip over
the countenance may be so directed as
to add charm. What you may do is to
so mould the lineamentS as to give
them the fascination any intelligent
face may assume even with the touch
of years to straighten curves and fash
ion hollOws.
If many women talked to their mir
ror as they do to their acquaintances
the sight of the grimaces they make
would be such as to stiffen the live
liest tongue. How they do screw up
their brows, wrinkle their noses and
twist their mouths! There are women
who never utter the most common
place statement without distortion of
the visage that would naturally lead
one to suppose that an acute attack
of gout or neuralgia had seized them.
- NhSS iCilldl n lIldl IL Is IL lONely udy
this information is given with an ac-
compartment of frown and a smirk
that would indicate great mental, if
not physical, pain. Almost invariably
this unconscious habit of grimacing is
begun in early girlhood and not only
must the facial masseuse perform a
miracle if she attempts to obliterate
the ugly wrinkles, but the subject her.
self must spend months of effort in re-
forming her facial movements. 1t is
well to express grief, JOY or content
ment by the face, but it is nothing
short of absurd to allow oneself to
grow into the habit of distorting the
countenance by unnecessary emphasis
of the facial muscles.
The woman who has thus acquired
undesirable lines must first set about
1t to change her mode of expression
and it is no easy task In this the
masseuse is Of important assistance.
BY gentle, persistent manipulation of
the muscles the lines will be lost if a
care is taken to talk with less facial
accompaniment.
A well-known Scranton girl had un-
consciously fallen into the habit of
lifting her broWs in conversation, until
deep burrows extended across from
temple to temple. BY advice of a mas
seuse in this city she wore strips of
court plaster whenever it was possible
in her own home, and in the mean
time took massage. The plaster caused
her to remember to keep her brows
smooth, and the treatment gradually
lightened the lines, as the forehead
was gently pinched and pulled in an
opposite direction from the wrinkles,
always with fingers dipped in cocoa
nut oil.
Another had a deep line at the cor
ners of her mouth. She is young and
pretty and she objected extremely to
that indentation which stayed even
when she was not smiling, so she prac-
ticed a new smile" that promised to
make another wrinkle, but she didn't
smile as eXpansively as before and
meanwhile the old crease began to yield
to the five minutes rubbing given
every night. She used to go to sleep
rubbing that wrinkle, and now you
would never know it had existed. Not
only was this delightful result achieved,
but the persistent massage developed
her too thin face, and her cheeks grew
plump as could be desired.
So you can be assured that 1t IS
really possible to accomplish wonders
although it certainly does take time
and patience and the average Scranton
woman has scarcely time enough to
keep her face decently washed, to say
nothing of the patience necessary to re-
move wrinkles.
There is one spot that needs excep-
tional attention and that is the soft
swell of flesh beneath the chin. Every
woman draads that fiabby pendulous
effect which comes with years. No
other portion of the face so quickly
shows age as this, The hair may be
gray, the eyes dim. the cheeks
sunken, but If the full roundness be-
meath the chin holds the pretty firmness
you will never call that woman old.
1t is only when she looks in the mirror
some morning and suddenly discovers
that the muscles relax and the skin
begins to fall loosely in folds that she
realizes the approach OF age. This can
he prevented and the public may be de-
ceived a long time beyond the popu-
larly accepted heyday of youth, but it
must not be neglected for a day. Again
the hot water both about. the chin and
throat, again the careful and persist
ent moulding of the muscles must be
given. Work in as much of this skin
food as the flesh will absorb, wash gen.
tly with soaps and water and rub with
oil. When no more can be taken in
wash onoa more with the sponge and
hot water after which dash cold water
over the surface. If this course is
Faithfully followed there is no reason
in the world why woman need to take
unto herself "dewlaD" as they say