Evening star., 1902-03-08
IVORY COMPLEXION
Lovely Woman Severely
Lectured.
A BEAUTY DOCTOR TALK
NO EXCUSE FOR WRINKLES TILL
AFTER FIFTY.
Up to That It's Simply Circulation
and Cleanli-
4 BEAUTY DOCTOR TALK
Written FOR TIE Evening Star.

Written for TIE Evening Star.
1.-THE reckless and amateurish applica-
tion Of even the best skin tonics. facial
balms newly advanced massage theory,
is largely responsible for the numbers Of
pale, rough or impoverished compleXlons
seen at this season." said the retired beau
ty doctor. Il only drew out of active
practice to go into matrimony a month
ago, so l know what 1 am talking about
when I say that the last few years Of ny
professional experience were lucratively
devoted to undoing the sad mischief mary
a woman had wrought with her own hands
on her originally nice skin Lots of pa
tients come to me too late for the rescue
of their wrecked compilations, and every
one told the same story: Mrs. Brown had
recommended steaming, massage, or ap-
plications Of this or that, and seeing Low
wonderful the results had been In Mrs.
BIS case, the helpless little victim of hope,
ignorance and credulity had pounded her
poor face black and blue or creased it into
the consistency Of a farmers boots or
steamed 1t into the condition Of a nice
brown carriage sponge
Il always began by scolding, like a set
ting hen, and then tried to impress on my
patient the fact that the skin of her face
same quality as that of Mrs. Brown S,
Jones or Robinson's countenance, and In
consequence not to be benefited by the
same treatment Now, mind You, l have
not a word to say against massage ard
skin tonics and steamng, except when they
are used at the wrong time and IN the
wrong way, though | believe all unnatural
means are powerless to really aid in cleans
ing and nourishing complexion.
after years of work l found that in so
per cent Of the faces brought under my
glass cleanliness end renewed circulation
was all they needed. In my own practice
l never used steam and | never handled a
patients face 1t is imperatively necessary
to examine a complexion first with pow
erful magnifying glass to see whether It
is too dry, too greasy or prenaturely
wrinkled; whether there Is loose. unneceS-
sary fat under the natural sheath of skin,
which is dstending the pores in order to
throw OF its waste, or whether undue
acidity of the blood is not making its pres
ence felt by its astringent qualities.
Facial Packs.
Large pored skins are not always greasy,
though they are invariably exceedingly un-
clean, and when 1 found impoverished
complexion, of what we call big mesh, |
treated it first to pack. My pack took the
place of steaming. The patient was put in a
reclining chair, her hair and shoulders pro-
tected with oiled silk, and then with cloths
wrung out In hot water 1 regularly put the
face in moist flannel oven. When the
skin was dry, as we'll impoverished and
coarse, a thin veil of grease was put on be-
fore the hot applications, and when the
pack was over | wound strips of sterilized
linen around curved ivory stick and dried
and slightly kneaded the cheeks and chin
and forehead until the whole surface looked
pink and clean. After one or two hot
packs the cold ones were used until was
ready to give massage after my own
methods
"All my massage rollers and kneaders
were Of ivory. Pure, polished ivory balls
preferred to rubber. l can't say why it is,
but the contact of true ivory is beneficial
to the skin, and my rollers We're shaped to
treat the muscles, and they were always
clean-oh, as Immediately clean as q
first-class dentists tools. There were roll
ers to reach the muscles about the lips,
others l used for ironing out the anxious
Fuckers in the forehead, and tiny, hollow
ivory balls that We're rolled gently around
the eye socket. Though / never put my
hands to a woman's face, my patients al
ways insisted they could feel my animal
electricity through those ivory rollers, and
/ am prepared to believe them.
Premature Wrinkles.
when a woman gives herself massage
she is apt as not to injure far more than
she benefits, and I've seen the wrinkles
fairly multiply under ignorant manipula-
foods. Wrinkles that come before the age
of fifty has been reached are indications
of disordered skin. In healthy woman
the blood should run rapidly and feed
every minutest blood vessel and vein. A
perfect circulation insures healthy, elastic
muscles and exqusitely tuned nerves.
When you see a woman at twenty y-eight
lose her color and gain crows feet, lateral
lines in her forehead and draw-string puck
ers about her lips, you may be sure that
her skin Is losing its life. The surface
veins are empty, the exquisite nerves along
their course get hysterical or refuse to
act, the muscles are contorted. and this is
all as clear as print on the lifeless surface
of the skin. No amount Of grease, chok-
ing the inactive pores or. steam that forces
them wide open will help matters.
ITO a patient in that state ! gave lumin-
Gus talks, and I sent her to her family
doctor to have a tonic or diet to get her
circulation up. Sometimes I refused to do
anything unless two hours were spent out
OF doors every day, and oatmeal and hot
cocoa and bonbons were forsworn. It's no