The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-02
BOON TO WOMEN.
Tesla Claims to Have Found the Sc
cret of Perpetual Youth.

NEW YORK, Nov. HAS the secret OF
eternal youth been discovered by Nikola
Tesla in the electrical apparatus which he
has discovered? If 1t has, woman by its
means can really retain the pure, soft, pink
white skin of babyhood as long as she lives
Mr. Tesla experimental with the most pow
erful microscope ever built, which he turned
upon the human skin. He found that it
is practically never clean-that in the cities
especially it is not only covered with NOR
ganic waste constantly settling down upon
it, but that it is the playground of minute
microbic organisms that drop upon it from
the polluted air and live and multiply. Then
Mr. Tesla experimental with big globe
covered with paint. Through this he ran
a powerful electric current, which caused
the paint to scale off, leaving the globe
clean and fresh. That's precisely what the
wizard of the wire proposes to do with fair
woman to make her more fair. He has de-
vised a reclining chair, upon which the sub
ject lies perfectly nude. Two wet spongeS
are applied to her feet two 10 her arms.
The current is turned on; At thrills, tngles,
and Weakens the skin, and then, as the
paint flakes fell from the globes, so fall
from her all the dirt which covers the skin,
so flutter away also the h1cous microbes.
The skin becomes as the skin OF a bab9.
1t is the fresh skin which replaces that
which SlOughS off from scar or a bur \.
This is the discovery IN n nutshell. So far
as external appearance goes, there Will be
no more old men and old women ii the use
of this electric chair becomes general.
Every one will go down to his grave retain
ing all the outward appearance OF blooming
youth.
Speaking Of his new method, Mr.. Tesla
says: People who battle themselves thor
oughly in soap and water every day have
an idea that they are utterly free from mi
crobes and that their skin cannot be made
any cleaner If these people had only the
opportunity to gaze for moment through
very powerful microscope, such as mine,
they would be utterly aStoniShed to see the
millions of germs swarming over every inch
making such a hdeous sight, are eating
up the vitality and freshness and destroy
ing the healthy particles of the skin at Il
rapid rate. l have succeeded in inventing
means by which the skin can be kept
free from their raVages.
MY method is to battle the body thor
oughly every day with some 6isinfectant
like alcohol, and as the hair of the body has
a particular attraction for the microbes,
doubly thorough bath of alcohol should be
oughly rubbed with the hands to stir up
electricity, and through the feet and hands
the whole body is charged with Gle ,tricity
from battery I have myself invented.
bodies so successfully that the microbes
have been thrown off in a perfect shower to
the ground. This charging of the hands and
feet relieves the skin and hair entirely of
microbes, and the skin can go on living it's
natural life of softness and freshness. Still,
day, but these are always removed before
tWenty-four hours. After the body has been
charged it is given electric massage by
means of the new current invented by me.
bath of the same disinfectant used in the
beginning"