The Jersey City news., 1899-05-02
WOMAN'S WORLD.
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you would nave been burned at the
stake''
said this to my masseuse because her
uncanny fingers had wrought a marvellous
it of work. call fingers uncanny when
they can take in hand face, SCARED by
burns. into state that is pitiful, and so
change it that but hint of former un-
happy conditions remains.
The young woman who presented her.
self for close inspection must have been
a very sweet-looking person befor the
dreadful accident marred features and
skin.
She will be again. 1t is only a question
of time, and not long time either. Elec-i
tricity, that marvellous agent, and the
cunning of the modern witch who handles
the buzzing little beautifer prove a mag
ical combination.
Nothing strikes with deeper cruelty
than burn. A woman with one iota of
vanity cannot rise superior to the ever
haunting consciousness such dishgure-
ment brings.
And to think that science comes for
ward and without much-ado so manipu-
lates the scanned skin that it returns to
an almost perfect state from grotesque
ugliness which arouses my hearts ten
derest emotions.
The science that can do all this belongs
to our world. We find it among our beau
ty doctors, not men any one of them,
but t~skilfui creatures wearing petticoats.
1t is fitting that woman should help
woman, and that as time goes on we
should compel even stubborn man to ad-
nit there is more in all this chatter
about. beauty than we in our widest
haxs n Connective
The young lady patient as she stood
under the unblinking testimony of my
strongest lorgnettes, proved to me the
utter faiiacy of skeptics longer sneering
at this hue and cry about beauty making.
II we are not the happier for being
corleIg within the next ten years it will
be our own iau.t. ard not the fault of
sc.snee There were SO many wretched
comd:t.o-s 20 this case, which I examined
with sech iasersst ihe picture of the girl
showed :. rii3eta drawn down at the corn
e., an eyalsi disiisorea IN the same way,
ana on tbs cheek Doaa and under the eye
scars that had gone deep, deep into the
tender flesh. The other cheek showed how
fair the poor face had once been.
Electricity says. "A fig for scars! What
care I Tor them? Give me a chance. 1t
is all L ask And then the modern witch
gets little instrument to work and
gradually, the process IS slow, for great
est caution is used there is change.
The mouth assumes its normal curve, the
eyelid falls into more nataral lines, the
skin begins to smooth out and soften, the
face is changed A new girl appears and
a very nice-Iooxing girl at that, a girl
who has been carrying the heaviest cross
a woman can bear, hourly conscious OF
an ggliuess which makes even those fond
est OF her vince at sight of It.
Doctors, Did practitioners, view such
case II wonder, and have bur one COM
ment, 1.-The work IS a good one" Some
day the sternest-aeaesed masculine will
say the same of all our attempts to be
beautiful.
1t is woman's right to be lovely, charm
ing, dainty, until she is laid in that mar
row bed of hers
- Eighty gracious years may roll over
heads that are wise. There is nothing
sweeter than pretty old lady; there is
nothing more repulsive than wrinkled
crone.
In the many chats that I enjoy with
my nasseuse we touch On all sorts of In
teresting topics for women, the dear dain-
ty old lady winning hands down. She is a
pleasing prospect, the result of the steady
march of progress toward higher phys
ical aims
/ had a great deal to say of soul eulti-
walton. 1t is my hobby. 1 frankly declare
1t a wicked shame to cabin beautiful
soul in a body marred by rolls of super
fiuous fat, hatehet-like bones. blotches,
coarse-grained pores. wrinkles, moles,
moth patches-there l might go on and on
with the list. 1t is tireseme one- Our
irnperfections are many.
How odd we ever should have been pa
tient enough to put up with them. We
did it because we thought we had to. we
know better now; we. at least, who are up
and a-stir looking after ourselves in order
to head off the artful dodger, 8 Time.
wrinkles were an especial blemish we
supposed we must tolerate They have
ben. until recently, regarded as rightfui
nero1isftes of that greedy monster-old
Father Time. He has gobDled up ana
chucked away more promising material
in IeokY than we. will ever be able TO
coax Rack into our domain. He has had
many a gIeefll skirnish with the heart
throbs of womankind. and, until lately,
has come off triumphant.
Electricity and all the clever arts that
accompany it are defying our tormentor.
He is being pushed into one OF the many
corners reserved for his victims. He VIII
die some day natural death. We may
NOT live to see it. The women to come
are going to be looked out for as we
have never been and never can be.
should like to be living a hundred
wears from now, when 1t will be dis
grace to be unwholesome looking: when
wrinkles will create as great Hutter as a
beautiful women does these days; when
only the poorest and most Ignorant neea
90 about un1ovely and unloyed.
We shall indeed be mother Ewes daugh-
ters and we will not have to seek far for
our Eden The worlds miseries at the
nresent moment are many; not the least
ours which thoroughly plain exterier
whips into daily agony.
The oppression IS intense that We'gns
down the spirits when the theught Is
brought home that the worlds sweet
meats go to those of as who win on sight.
Gracious souls are smothered beneath
riffraff of bodily faults. To clear them
avav that the charm of the spiritual may
he appreciated takes more cunning tnan
the chance acquaintance or frlena cares
~ ,,ea This is why woman,s realm IS