The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-13
WRIST AND ELBOW TREATMENT
Athletic Girls Are Anxious About
Their Muscular Sunburned Arms

Athletic Girls Are Anxious About
Their Muscular Sunburned Arms.
New York, Jan. 11.-There is a ground
glass enclosed little sanctum opening off
a brocade and gold beauty factory to
which the women are ctowding for wrist
and elbow treatment. A change in the
cut of sleeves has brought this new in
dustry to the front, and the artistic who
sits in the little sanctum has to eat her
lunch on the fly and dress every morning
by candle light in order to treat patrons,
who wish to have their arms from the
elbow down made beautiful to look upon.
For the last four years the owners of
red, knobby, or coarse skinned arms have
enjoyed haven of refuge in the long lace
sleeve lining of white chiffon under
the lace did wonders in softening contours
and reducing the ugly flesh, while cuff
dropping to the knuckles, hid big boned
wrists. Now, however, the tendency of the
fashion, so we hear from Paris is toward
angel sleeves for afternoon gowns and
absolutely no sleeves at all for evening
dresses
Already the women who wears a chiffon.
net, or lace sleeve is suspected Of irvine.
TO hide scrawny members, suspicious no
woman of proper pride could endure. and
in order to fit herself for the ordeal of
exposing her arms she is having them
cured Of their defects.
According to the energetic, pleasant
raced sorceress, who sits in the ground
glass closet among pots of pomades,
powders, electric apparatus and mystert-
Gus jars, the feminine arm is rarely a
thlng OF uncriticiseable beauty. However,
she bravely guarantees to convert a pair
as lacking in beauty as wayside finger
posts, into a charming feature AROUND
her closet hang plaster cast models of
beautiful arms, and when her sitter has
put on little sleeveless pink dressing
sacque and frankly revealed the defects
Of her wrists and elbows the good genius
of the place bids her hope
Ii 1t is a thin, red elbowed arm she
gets at the elbow first and improves the
circulation, by using a very, very fine
warm water spray and by rubbing in a
pomade that feeds the flesh. With her
electric neddle she removes superfuous
hair, and then shows her patient how TO
exercise her arms with view to helping
the growth of the forearm, which. in
nine cases out of ten is undeveloped IN
The American woman.
To one ambitious patient, whose 4rn
below the elbow presented a starved
shrunken appearance she recommended
two hours use every day of a carpet
sweeper, which the lazy patient, sitting
in her arm chair. showed diligently in
back and forth over an old rug spread
before her. II was not long before her
wrists rounded out amazingly, and
cream made from oats whitened the
brown skin until it was as fair as a
babys.
But that is nothing to the improve
ments / can bring about" asserverated the
inventor Of the processes. Elbows with
out dimples, or sausage shaped arms from
which all semblance of shape have dis
appeared are about the easiest to deal
with. The elbows covered with tough
horny skin used to puzzle me, but have
learned how to soak, oil and then cap
them with protectors and finally polish
them until they grow as white and round
ed as a child's. The caps are made Of
oiled silk filled with bleaching softening
poultiee, OF which I alone know the COM
position secret, and they must be worn
for at least week, or until / can see
that all the rough callous skin is removed.
When this skin is pealed OF use a nour-
ishing powder in the polishing, and may
be you have noticed OF late how many