The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-18
MAKING THEMSELVES BEAUTIFUL.
Women Engage in 1t in a Systematic,
Business-Like Way.
New York Commercial Advertiser.

New YORK Commercial Advertiser.
Business is brisk with the beauty doc
tors just now. March freckles are being
bleached out of existence. Necks are be-
ing 'ivoryiZed" and blanched to look beau
tiful for the spring cotillions-and the
transparent yoke of summer. The woman
of to-day thinks that science can do any
thing. BY science she understands sur
geonS, palmiSts teachers of athletics, con-
and youth p~rolongers. Once in awhile she
loses her faith in a particular nostrum or
person, but her confidence in her own ca
pacity 10 be transformed never wavers for
an instant. The ugliest or worst tempered
OF women thinks tha<she could be beau
teous and amiable if she only had enough
OF time and money or her own way.
But with all their scientific beliefs the
majority Of women cling TO the idea that
prevailed even when the beautiful Gun
nings" lived (and one of them died from
using poisonous cosmetics), that greatness
is to be attained through beauty, and
beauty through cosmetics. The first as
sumption is hardly less mistaken than the
second. Beauty, of course, helps a woman
TO attain many of the prizes of life, but it
is Of comparatively little use by itself.
The beautiful women who have risen TO
almost always treated their beauty as a
means of introducing themselves to the
favorable notice of strangers. If, disre-
garding our contemporaries, we look back
upon the celebrated beautiful women of the
past, we shall find that almost all of them
eXerted themselves to entertain. Some
were actresses, some were. good takers,
some adrolt hoSteSSeS, some Wire-pullerS,
some hatterers: but hardly one treated her
beauty as idle capital and neglected to
keep life humming around her.
The really indolent woman, however, be-
lieves implicitly in such attractions as a
smooth, pink, unwrinkled complexion, a
fashion-plate figure, and hair newly waved
from the shop. So she wanders about
among the beautiiers. She attends lee
lures from persons calling themselves spe-
~cialists, who receive her in dimly lighted
rooms. offer her a wonderful rigamarole of
talk and at the end assure her that the only
remedy for plainneSS is their magic, golden
priced unguent. She goes about among
manicurists and masseuses, face-washers,
wrinkle-removerS, w~aist-improvers, eye
brow-thickenerS, neutrality-suspicious., erup-
tion-erasers, youth-restOrers and the whole
amazing countless crowd of quick-wltted
folk who live upon her craving for lowell
ness. She does not mind what money she
s~catterS among the artists in transforma-
ton, and there are so many women of her
type that her individual hckleness is little
felt.
Five hundred dollars for a treatment of
FIVE days, during which the beauty spe-
cialiSt never leaves her patient, night or
day, is not considered too large a sum
by the modern striver after perpetual
youth. AS for the beauty doctor, she de-
clares the course TO be cheap at the price,
and points proudly TO her successes as a
confederation Of her assertion.
h best beauty-prOducers, and the only
ones who command large incomes, are
AN AAdNO SaAGLAAl " lit
career-in a hospital to learn anatomy,
in a pharmacy to learn the use of un-
guents, and in the most-renowned sa-
Ions Of great and wOrld-famed beauty
specialists to learn their methods. Paris
is the home of the most wonderful cures"
and disciples of the big specialists study
those and afterward set up for themselves
in New York, which is the favorite stamp
ing round for these beauty doctors in this
country.
Fashion aids the beauty specialist. Just
now in Paris every little woman of rounded
proportions who is dissatisfied with her
style is crazy to add a few inches TO her
height so that she may wear the Greek
costume TO advantage. The classical gar
ment, leaving the limbs free beneath the
covering and not interfering with their ac-
zion, will strengthen and lengthen them in
time, say the doctors, but who would wait
for time? A much quicker and therefore
more satisfactory route TO height leads
through the waiting room of a certain fash
ionable physician, who has a salon in the
most expensive boulevard quarters and who
lengthenS the limbs by a process performed
with an electrical Instrument.
Take next the cOiffure. The hair special
lists business is not to arrange his clients
hair eXQuiSitely, but 10 guard il from all
the weaknesses to which ii is prone, to i'm
part to scant and ugly hair a gloss and
vigor as well as a curlineSs; in short, TO
render it as near perfection as may be.
1t is wonderful TO see a specialist take a
handful of stiff, gray, ragged locks into his
hands. The saddened possessor of this IN
compromising mass says with tears in her
voice that she once had nice golden brown,
glossy hair: then she was i'll and il grew
gray; she resorted to dyes and took to curl
ing irons. With profound gravity and at
tention the head of TIE establishment
listens. Then he makes inquiry whether
grayness and thinness are hereditary, and
receiving a negative answer orders his as
sistants TO examine the head, takes samples