The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-01

diet. They viii suffer almost ANYTHING
except little self-denial in the way
of sweets and a little trouble in the
| way of prorer and systematic cxer-
else. They will endure almost any in
convenience. that can be undergone
| spasmodlcally. but to take up a
method of reform they won't.
| The other day a New York woman
brought a case into court against a
dermatologist who had guaranteed to
| remove certain wrinkles which my
lady considered superiluous. Whether
or not the specialist did what he agreed
was not specified. The ground of com-
| paint was mat in his attempts to OBJ
| literate the wrinkles he left sears sew
eral times as objectionable. Hence
her tears. Hence her action in law
| The mans defense was that he could
| have made a brilliant success of his
work If my lady had only heen con-
tent to allow him the privilege of max
ing Sits on her vsage where his
knowledge and experience dictated.
The lady in the case had her own
ideas on the subject and insisted upon
selecting the exact spot on her cotin-
tenance where the incision should be
made which was supposed to take up
several laps of skin in order to tighten
1t and smooth out the wrinkles. The
man declared that her choice made 1t
impossible to have the wounds heal
without a scar. So his patient has a
Disagreement which she considers
more disastrous than even cross
section of wrinkles and just as In
effaceable. Hence she wanted damages.
The court seemed to be rather unsym-
pathetic. or course Il court is COM
posed of horrid men and now we
know they never could understand, so
my lady's pathetic plea was ineffect-
ual. There ought to be some sort of
roller arrangement connected with our
scalDs so that when the skin on o,ir
faces becomes a triile loose, by a few
turns of a crank we could tighten it
up like a pulley belt or window shade.
The other day a young woman made
great sensation which also was
chronicled in the court proceedings be-
cause of hel eccentric methods OF
getting rid of her money-methods
which her kinsfolk considered highly
reprehensiblc. When they appealed to
legal means to restrain her the fact be-
came known that she had bleached
her hair by some powerful French
nostrum and that ever after her brain
had seemed to be affected. There Is a
somewhat prevalent idea that people
who bleach their hair have something
the matter with their brains previous
to the process. but it is not always
that such definite results are manifest
ed thereafter 1t takes q woman OF
considerable balance of character to
witness with euuinaminity the first
appearance of Il gray hair along with
its sisters and its cousins and its
aunts, Il doltful train. In the first
shock of the appalling discovery the
platitude regarding "prematurely turn
ing Il "beau:iful frame for a youthful
face Il distinctive crown of dignity.
etc, etc. etc, are of little comfort and
she feels like throwing things at her
mirror and is apt to be rather silent
at dinner. That is the period in her
career when she reads with apparent
abstraction the remarkable vegetable
discoveries'' chronicled in the news
papers as good for falling hair and
warranted To restore gray tresses 20
their natural color.
Then is that she believes the guar
antees and goes to experimenting on
her unlucky head. She possibly tries
everything - from harmless walnut
Juice, which stains her scalp and fin
gers u rich, Clark ITIemish-Oak tint. to
the willy bleaChes. which once actively
at work, really perform Il miracle more
or less hOrrisying to the victim. Once
bleached, there are two courses open to
her-to keep it bleached and have all
her friends look askance at her, OF To
wait dolefully for the reverse results
leading through pale sea-green locks to
hideous streaked effects. made up of
and old mahogany, with !
the hateful gray hair predominating.
Then it is that she pathetically decides
that the only worse thing than to have |
gray hair is to have it bleachcd artitici- !
ally. No wonder, in some cases. her |
intellect totters on its throne and her |
relatives have to get out a commission |
in lunacy. 1t isn't half as much the |
result of the chemical effect of the |
bleach as the mental process of worry |
and humiliation.
Men are much to blame for this dole |
full condition of feminine pride ana |