The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-03
BOON TO FAIR WOMEN.
Nikola Tesla Claim the Discovery of
the Secret of Eternal outh.

New York, Nov. 3.-Has the secret of
eternal youth been discovered by Nfkola
Tesla in the electrical apparatus which
he has discovered? If it 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
powerful 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 inorganic waste constantly settling
down upon it, but that it is the play
ground of minute microbic organism that
drop upon it from the polluted atmosphere
and live and multiply Then Mr.. Tesla
experimental with a big globe covered
with paint Through this he a pow
erful 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 devised a reclining chair, upon
which the subject lies perfectly nude.
Two wet sponges are applied to her feet,
two to her arms The current is turned
on; it thrills, tingles and weakens the
skin, and then, the paint flakes fell
from the globe, fall from her all the
dirt which covers the skin, fiutter
away also the hideous microbes. The skin
becomes the skin of a babe. 1t is as
the fresh skin which replaces that which
sloughs off from scar or a burn. This
is the discovery in a nutshell. So far
as external appearance goes, there will
be no more old men and old women if the
use of this electric chair becomes gen
eral- Everyone will go down to his
grave retaining all the outward appear
ance of blooming youth.
Speaking of this new method, Mr.. Tesla
says:
People, who bathe themselves thor
oughly in soap and water every day have
idea that they are utterly free from
microbes, and that their skin cannot be
made any cleaner. If these people had
only the opportunity to gaze for a mo-
ment through a very powerful microscope,
such as mine, they would be utterly as
tonished to see the millions of germs
swarming over every inch of their own
bodies. These germs, besides making
such a hideOus sight, eating up the
vitality and freshness and destroying the
healthy particles of the skin at rapid
rate I have succeeded in inventing a
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 disinfectant
like alcohol, and the hair of the body
has a particular attraction for the mi
crobes a doubly thorough bath of alcohol
should be given it every time.
Next, the body is thoroughly rubbed
with the hands to stir up electricity, and
through the feet and hands the whole
body is charged with electricity from a
battery I have myself invented. With
this battery I have charged human 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 en-
tirely of microbes. and the skin can go on
living its natural life of softness and
freshness. Still, other microbes will fall
upon it the next day, but these are al
ways removed before twenty-four hours
After the body has been charged it is
given an electric massage by means of
the new current invented by me. The
whole affair is finished off by a slight bath
of the same disinfectant used in the be-
ginning