The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-15
MISS PARKS PRETTY
Experiment on Wichita Girl in
New York Is Finished.
LOOKS VERY N0BBY NOW
ALFRED in a Spring Bonnet and
Tailor-Made Dress.

| Amanda Parks, pronouncing her about
| complete. It may be that the attempt was
a failure, for the World portrait showing
Amanda Parks as beautifed put a beau
| tiful spring bonnet on her head and covers
up her high forehead. They also dress Aer
| correctly and tastefully.
The World publishes two final portraits
of her The first is one as she appeared
five weeks ago. The second shows her
neatly attred and very attractive.
The experiment ends without Amanda
Parks revealing her true name. If she
has the temerity to return to Wichita how
ever. she VIII be easily identified by her
new clothes
Mrs. Ayers closing article to the World
is as follows:
On Sunday, FYebruary II, the Sunday
World readers first became acquainted
with Miss Amanda Parks. AT that time
1 told in detail the circumstances which
led to Miss Parks becoming a patient of
the Sunday World, and for the benefit
Of the Sunday World readers her treat
ment has been given week after week,
until now. at the expira ton of the month,
she leaves me, and 1 think understands
perfectly well how TO care for herself and
how to make the most of herself in the
future
quote from letter received from Miss
Parks last November, in which she said:
Every time I see myself in the glass
it makes me sick 1t seems 20 me that
every other girlintheworl dismore wgys
every other girl in the world is more at
ira hat
1 have heard SO much about you, and 1
have wanted to write you for two years,
but 1 have always been ashamed Please
don't throw this letter away now, but do
be kind enough to read on. On, if you
only knew how poor girl, way out here
in Kansas, will watch for your answer!
1 am twentyfour years old, five feet eight
inches tall, but 1 stoop dreadfully, and
1 don't seem to be able to straighten my
self out, although 1 have tried practicing
movements I have seen illustrated in the
papers. / have black hair that looks like
an Indians. My eyes are my best point,
but they have lines under them and my
eyebrows are simply horrid. They are
black and all in one piece. They seem to
meet right a tiny nose.
my complexion is not good. I am
freckled and have some terrible black
heads, which are so disgusting. I ought
to have very good teeth, but 1 have lost
two on the right side near the front, and
my grandmother would not let me have
false ones put in. 1 know I am too young
to have linesSand wrinkles in my face,
but I've got them all the same
Then followed an earnest pleading for
help which 1 could not resist
When I first saw Miss Parks, months
later. she bore out her own description
very fairly. -Four weeks ago, when she
began her treatment, she brought the
scales down at Ill pounds. She was fat
and narrow chested. and wore the most
dreadful corset L think I ever saw. She
had a wretched complexion, the result of
improper nourishment and lack Of exer-
else. Her eyebrows were very backbone
much longer than the other, and they al
most met at the nose.
Today Miss Parks weighs 191 younds.
She measures nearly three inches more
around the chest. Her shoulders are al
most straight. The eyebrows have been
made shapely by the aid of electrolyss,
and, while this operation has not been
hairs treated have returned-it viii be
successful finally. and Miss Parks ar
rangement permits her to return to the
electrician until every superfuous hair has
been destroyed.
The two teeth have been replaced by a
skllful surgeon-dentist, whose work is so |
perfectly performed that it is impossi-
bic, on the closest examination, to tell
the artificial from the natural teeth.
Good. simple and nourishing food. phys
ical culture, massage, daily baths and
friction have made a wonderful improve
ment in her general appearance, and her |
skin. which was very stubborn, finally re-
spends and will shortly be in excellent |
condition.
She viii never have a beautiful COM
pleXion, such as Miss Lane now has
the Sunday Worlds patient two years
ago. But She will have a skin free from |
b.ackheads and similar Affections
Facial massage is doing much for the |
premature lines. but this treatment she |
VIII have to continue for some time
Amanda Parks of today is certainly a |
different looking woman from the girl who |
wrote me so a5jectly last autumn.
The average observer would call her a |
transformed girl. but, truthfully speak |
ing, however much she has improved in |
appearance, she is only entering upon the |
road. which if she pursues it persistently |
and patiently Will make OF her really a |
handsome woman.
Mss Parks, since the beginning OF her /
Treatment until last week, has not been /
70 wear a corset. she has /
passed her DAYS in a loose corsej-wafst |
Without any restriction she has learned !
TO breathe properly, and yesterday when |
she tried on her old corset she was as 1
founded to find that il would not meet any /
place, and she said had properly termed |
il "a coffin corset
Miss Parks continues her practice in /
deep breathing. She also usss dumb !
bells twice a day and spends an hour every /
morning n a gymnasium.
She arises regularly each morning al 1
O'Clock. and is given q ,epid sponge bath, /
with friction after 1t. I should Ike her 4
10 take 81 cold plunge, but two or three /
experiments have proved that she IS 10. /
ao.e yet 10 endure the shock
The daily regimen. beginning always i
with the bath. has been about as fol- 4
lows:
Breakfas; az $50. az which the na-len,
has eaten freely of fruit-oranges. grape
fruit or baked appIe-the first Two weeks
and more recently stcwed prunes, sJewed
ags and steWed apples. % which she -
fond.
The fruit has been followed by a cereal.
oatmeal or hominy. for the first form ght.
rice and w.leaten alternating OF late. as
she has srown :. llrtle t.rei q he ham.nv. !