The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-22

Gus. have had but fifty hairs a day
treated so far
The improvement the removal Of the
meeting eyebrows has made in her APP
pearance is really wonderful, and in a
day or two when the operation is CON-
pleted her face will assume quite diff
ferent expression. OF course we shall not
know how far the process has been sue
cessful for two or three weeks.
Miss Parks returns from the derma-
tologist's home each day, walking at least
part of the way, and finds her luncheon
awaiting her. She is usually very hungry.
| Luncheon is served promptly ar Ian is
| made up Of juicy broiled steak. UNDERGONE;
! roast lamb, and occasionally a roasted or
| broiled fowl. Potatoes, spinach, carrots,
| and tomatoes are eaten with the meat,
and are followed by a watercress salad,
| this particular green being extremely good
for the complexion.
A dessert of rice or some other simple
pudding, with cream, or ripe fruit termi-
mates this simple but hearty meal.
After luncheon Miss Parks rests for an
hour. Then she is given a facial treat
ment. For this purpose have secured
! the services of a very skillfuI lady special
ist, who win give Miss Parks what might
| be called facial gymnastics, with a view
to restoring the relaxed muscles. remov-
! ing premature wrinkles and lines and get
/ ting back the youthful contour Of the
| face which has been almost lost.
The facial treatment Will be fully de-
! scribed in a later part of Miss Parks his
! tory.
At o'clock my patient partakes of a
| light tea, consisting Of cooked fruit with
sugar and cream, bread and butter, a
| salad CT she chooses of lettuce or water
cress and cup Of weak tea.
I think it best that my patient should
| eat meat but once day at present.
At o'clock Miss Parks takes her hot
scrub. Her face was in a most deplora-
bic condition-the skin dry IN some places
and oily in others, with numerous freckles
and blackneads. She has been told the
merits of the camel's hair face scrubbing
brush, and religiously goes through with
that clearly operation every night, with
the result that the blacl1heads are rapidly
disappearing, and the skin shows every
symptom of quickly regaining a normal
appearance. I wish all the readers of the
Sunday World could see what soap and
water can do and are doing in this case
to improve a skin without other aid.
The hot scrub - q complete bath, one
brush being used for the face and an
other for the body.
1t is followed by the breathing exercises
and a full massage treatment. BY the
time this little ceremony is completed my
patient is delightfully."- tired and very will:
ing 70 obey orders and go to bed.
Half an hour before doing so, however,
she has her last meal. which is a very
simple one and made up of bread and
milk
From the first day Miss Parks has gain
ed over a pound each twenty-four hours.
Already she is well under way and en-
thusiastic at the prospects There are
good many things yet to be attended to.
There is some work at the surgeon-den-
lists and there is shock of black, In
dian, wiry-looking hair 10 be made silky
and tractable
There are some freckles TO be taken off,
premature wrinkles TO be obliterated and
there is a very thin, scrawny neck to be
filed out. There are also some difficulties
in the way of making a pair of unsightly
hands pretty, white and shapely, but we
are going to do it, At present We are
using no cosmetics, with the exception OF
a cucumber cream. This cream Miss
Parks anoints her face and hands witE The
last thing at night.
In the morning she removes the oils
that have not been absorbed during the
night from her skin with warm water and
a pure hygienic soap.
The first weeks care in a case of this
kind is interesting more because of its
hopefulness than for any real work accom-
oIished.
Within ten days 7 expect to be able to
show some remarkable improvements in
our patients appearance.
When I undertook to bring the SUNDAY
Worlds celebrated patient. Catherine
Lane, back to strength and beauty I had
to struggle against a chronic nervous dis
ease for which Miss Lane had been Unsuc-
cessfully treated by the best specialists for
n number of years. Il was my very good
fortune to succeed. and Miss Lane, from
whom I heard today, continues to be in
perfect~health. although when she became
The Worlds patient two years ago every
physician of the half dozen: who examined
her prognOsticated fatal termination to
her Illness
Miss Parks is a very different PROPOSE
ton. She is broken down and prema-
turely aged by care and hopelessness. but
she is raIying and responding to every
effort made in her behalf in a most de-
lightful way. She is very good and obe-
dent patient absolutely trustworthy and
already enthusiastic at the prospect Of an
almost complete transformation in her per
sonal appearance.
HARRIET HUBBARD AVER.