The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-09


place, so it lies over in folds; lateral
and horizontal wrinkles come in the
forehead; crow-tracks branch out from
the corners of the eyes, and the dimple
in the cheek, that pride and glory of
youth, becomes a long, perpendicular
line down the face. The weight of the
skin prizes the muscular tissue apart,
and wrinkles deepen until the bone is
reached. Wrinkles so deep as these can
not be removed, except by facial cleo
trical treatment or by d surgical opera
ton.
But certainly in all this an ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of cure.
In other words, it is better not to al
low time to etch any lines at all.
An Austrian scientist, after years of
study, and many discouraging failures,
suggests a treatment for self-facial
massage, that would seem to be all that
could be asked. Professor Pick, dean
of the Clinic for Skin Diseases in
Prague, treated one of his women pa
tents in the way suggested, and the re-
suit was so gratifying that he employs
the method altogether. In Austria mat
terS of this kind have to successfully
pass the inspection Of the imperial Aus
trian state board of health before they
can be put upon the market. There are
no exceptions to this rule. A man can
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until his formula is known TO the board
of health.
In speaking of America and Ameri-
can women, the discoverer of this self
facial massage treatment, who is now
in the United States said: 1.-The Ameri-
can women wrinkle much younger thai.
the women Of Europe. This is due to
several causes. The climate has some
thing to do with it, but one great con-
tribution to it is that American I5omen
talk too much with the entire face
They are so captiyatingly earnest that
they call all the muscles of the face
and many in the hands and arms and
body, to the aid of their words
The face self-massage apparatus con-
sists of three pieces, that might be
called rubber rubbers. There is also a
small brick of a peculiar kind of pun
mice stone that is made in Germany.
When fat massage is desirable, some
kind of an emOlient must also be used
These three little rubber rubbers, which
are made of several composite parts
rubber, talcum, and ground almond pits
are of sizes to enable them to get into
all the little cracks and corners where
massage treatment is desired.
The first thing for a woman to do
when she wants to apply this self
massage to her face and neck is to
study the constitution and conditions
of her skin. She must know whether
she has fatty skin or a dry skin. If
the skin is too dry, then elasticity and
power of tension are lacking, so that
the skin cannot follow the movements
of the facial muscles and nerves, and
the consequence is that the skin relaxes
and wrinkles come. In this case your
skin must be fed with the lacking fat.
To this end vegetable fat is preferable
to animal fat.
If the skin is too fat it seems to exude
parafine, the pores become enlarged by
the tallow; pimples and bIachheads
come to you as natures friendly warn
ing that your skin is abnormally Sc
creting fatty substances. This super
fluous fat must be removed by dry IA
cial massage. Even if your skin is
good. your face without a blemish. you
should still give it a massage treatment
occasionally. 1t is as necessary as
gymnastics and exercise for the body.
By skillful treatment of yourself you
can remove the fatty secretions, there
by producing a natural, transparent.
white color of the face. The circula-
ton will be accelerated, and wrinkles,
if not too deep, will in a short time de-
materialize.
The average healthy person, when
disrobed, cannot fail to notice how
much smoother and whittier the skin is
under the clothes than it is on the face
and hands. Just exactly what your
clothing does for your body is what
you want to do for your face; that is,
frot the upper, stained, discolored cuti-
Gle off. And just here is where your
little piece of German pumice stone
gets in its work.
Let us suppose that you want to free
your face of tan, patch, moth, freckles
You will first annoint the face and
neck with some kind of cold cream.
then you take the largest one of your
massage rubbers or the tips of your
fingers will do; the rubber enc has three
bisected cones at the face end Now,
with the lightest touch, rub this from
the roots of the nose upward over the
forehead, and again, beginning at the
middle of the forehead with the same
light stroke, run toward the left, and
from the middle of the forehead again,
toward the right. For every direction
that you take, about five strokes is the
beneficial number. Be careful to go es-
pecially against the horizontal Wrin-
kles in the forehead; those that usually
start out from the top of fat sway
nose.
Now stroke from the right and left
corners of the eyes, over the temples,
especially against the crow feet. near
the eyes. Close your eyes and give the
same number of strokes over the up
per and lower lids, beginning AT the
nose and stroking Que. Begin at the
tip Of the nose. go over the nose proper,
and over the wings of the nose toward
the right and left sides. Under the
lower lids, beginning at the nose, and
over the cheeks toward the ear. Here
you will noe that your apparatus will
be describing a circular movement,
which, if continued. one below the
other. so that the lower strokes reach