The herald., 1898-01-23
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!; Perennial YOUTH and BEAUTY
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The effort to retain the appearance
of youth and efface the ravages of age
and the inroads of time on the human
face is as old almost as the race itself.
From the hieroglyphic writing of AS
syria, Babylonia, Persia, Egypt and
Chaldea it is known that the women of
those countries We're familiar with
rouge, powders. cosmetics and per-
fumes. Assyrian and Chaldean men
Went a step further and were adopts
with the curling tongs on both beard
and hair. Persian men also did not dis
dain the use of perfumes ointments and
curling tongs. In the excavations of
ancient Greece and Rome Iland mirrors
of FURNISHED steel, rouge cups and pow
der puffs We're found among the toilet
trfles of ladies of that time, and the
oomen of both countries were guilty of
bleaching the hair.
Theocritus, a Greek writer of 280 years
before the Christian era, makes Prax-
moe, q woman Of Syracuse, say: THAT
pretty papa of his cher small SOM the
other day, though I told him beforehand
to mind what he was about, when L
sent him to a shop to buy soap and
rouge, brought me salt instead-stupid,
great big interminable animal"
The desire to retard the appearance of
the advance of age has not declined
since Ponce de Leon set out in his
mythical search for the tabled fountain
of eternal youth. Patches and powders
were accessories of the toilet of the
women of the fourteenth and several
centuries later, extending to the days of
the colonial DANES of the revolution.
In our day women have used. cosmetics
with a lavish hand and then disdaining
this means Of covering wrinkles and
crowsfeet in later years have taken vio-
lently to physical culture, athletics, out
door sports of all kinds, to produce
clear skin and ruddy cheeks.
In the last few years face massaging,
steaming, so-called face foods" and
other devices have been resorted to for
the effacement of wrinkles and to pro-
duce a soft, youthful complexion. Toilet
parlors" for administering face treat
ments" are as numerous as grocery
stores, and regular visits to toilet par
lor are as necessary to my lady's face
nowadays as the shampooing of her
hair
Nicola Tesla, the wizard of electric
ity, has recently discovered that women
may retain the soft skin of girlhood as
long as they live by the use of Faradic
electricity. That the Faradic current
will do all that is claimed for it has been
demonstrated by skin and nerve spe-
cialist of this city. That 1t will continue
to do so through life remains to be DEM
onstrated.
The action of the Faradic current on
living tissues is not so complex and is
better understood than the galvanic
current.
Faradization disturbs the particles of
matter which enter into the formation
Of nerves and muscles and excites them
into healthy activity, re-establishing
their functions when impaired or lost
Its slowly interrupted current prevents
the alternate contractions and expan-
sions of inactive or paralyzed muscles
by increasing their nutrition. 1t also
determines a larger supply of blood to
the part electrified. BY it's stimulating
properties it is a wonderful remedy for
loss of voice, nervous prostration in all
it's varied forms, and as a cosmetic is
greater than any tonic. 1t puts more
and firmer flesh on the head and face
than any known remedy. Women who
desire firm, white, beautiful necks, and
clear, smooth, delicate compilations,
without the disfiguring lines and wrin-
kles of advancing years may procure
batteries, learn to use the current and
thus secure perennial youth and beauty.