The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-06
A VALEDICTORY
AS TO THE FACE
Men Who Wonder Why They Are So
Beautiful.
OTHERS WHO WISH IMPROVEMENTS
A Letter from n Mau Who Wants n
Rest--A wife who Is TOO Enthus-
iastic over the Beautifying Pro-
neutrality-suspicious. the Result of
Facial Massage.

A puzzling thing connected with this
identifying" subject is that men seem
actually interested in the matter.
Whether they disguise their own per-
sonal interest in apparent anxiety to
renovate wives, daughters and sis
ters, is not easily determined, but at
any rate they ask many questions
concerning facial massage. 1t is my
private opinion that a large number
of men in this city might be found
during their hours of solitude, CAREFUL
ly making up before the mirror, en-
deavoring to eradicate crows feet,
smile prettily and rub out the first
development of a double chin.
One man writes to ask If / know
Of anything that will reduce redness
of the nose. With the exception of
leaving off tipping, it is difficult to
recommend a sure cure for this facial
defect. After some research find that
you'll mean man-may soak his nose
in a preparation of ichthyol, some
thing or other with q consequent TN
provement. ...
Another wants TO get a recipe for
something that will cause his beard
to be silky and soft. Still another
anXiously inquiries whether / can rec
fess to being able to reclaim hopeless
noses and pare down superlluity of ear
or chin. ! really don't feel competent
to give advice on this matter. In fact
1 always supposed that men considered
themselves so nearly perfect in feature
and disposition that no radical steps
were needed for q change, but 1T seems
l was laboring under a hallucination.
One of the letters received ran az fol-
lows:
My Dear Saucy Bess:
VIII you be so kind as to let UP on this
beauty business? We've had enough of
it. In fact in one family we've had al
together too much. My wife always looks
we'll enough. She isn't any great beauty
and never was though l probably told
her so when we We're first married. Any
how she says l did and maybe 1 did. All
men are fools at some time in their ca
reer, but there's no call for her ta start
in primping and fussing with her face at
her time of life. Instead OF going to ben
like respectable person she is possessed
to sit up nights and maui her face and
by the time she is done mauling, greas-
ing, pulling and pinching her counte-
nance she is a holy show. l never eX-
pected to live to see wife Of mine per-
form in such a manner.
Since she has an idea that she's going
pendent. When 1 demonstrated with her
the other night about letting the gas fare
in my eyes when l wanted to sleep she
assured me that l was afraid my wife
would look SO fresh and young that Ia
be taken for her father, and then went
serenely on with her greasing operations
until l felt Hike pitching lot Of stuff
she bought out of the window.
This thing must be stopped She's
taken to setting before the glass most
of the time and when L said something
to this effect, she coolly remarked that it
was in imitation of me, since l have a
glass before me entirely too frequently
| but of a different kind. If there's any
| thing ! can't stand it's insubordinatiou
| in the family and for pity's sake give
us rest on the face question. Just as
| long as you persist in writing a lot of
stuff about making homely folks beau
| titul she'll continue trying everything
| you recommend and / shall have to see
her going round looking like a CREASED pig.
Why don't you jump on the wOmans $
| rights business as you used 10, and not
| get foolish women into the notion that
! it's any use to try to look fascinating
| after they're married? If you'll start on
new tack next week you'll oblige AZ
| weary Martyr Husband.
Perhaps your faces are all tired af-
| ter reading so much about the manip-
ulation necessary to the contenance
| beauty. Perhaps they need a rest, and
| If a dissertation on care Of the hands
| is taken up next it may be of inter-
| est. I know a sure cure for finger
nail biting-that disgusting habit,
| which is almost as bad as chewing to-
bacco. BY the way. I can now recon-
mend an excellent skin food, IL any
one cares to know of such an article.
| Saucy Bess.