The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-12
BEAUTY'S TOO DOWNY CHEEK.
4 FLEMISH ON THE FACE AND
THE METHODS OF CURING IT.
The TuTted Upper LIP Point OF Beauty
I'm spain n Not Herc~-ways Of Getting
MD or SuperfllOus HaIr-LessOns From
the Case Of Mem Prematurely Bald.

the Case OF Mem Prcmaturely Bald.
The happiness OF many woman has
been wrecked by superfiuous hair upon
the face. And this Is not to be wondered
at, for there is no other one blemish which
| 80 utterly destroys woman's beauty.
II may be that in CASTLE the presence
Of hair upon the face is not considered
a blemsh. But here it is regarded as
not only superfluous but positively ugly.
1t makes woman look masculine it
robs her face Of the soft, pretty curves
of "A man, it utterly spoils the pink and
white of her complexion, and it gives her
fierce, threatening look, where she should
/ look sweet and gracious.
The women Of Spain and Of the other
warm countries regard the slight downiness
as something to be desired. In fact, in
some parts OF the world, especially along
| the Mediterranean and In the Indian Ocean,
the upper lip must be slightly tufted with
hair or woman IL not considered pretty
4 The down shades the mouth, they think,
and makes the lip more graceful in Its
line. Hair on the cheeks of n woman and
the sides of the face is positively dignified
| But the Mediterranean is not the Atlantic.
and different standards obtain here. There
! fore the problem of getting rid of superfiu-
| Gus hair is sometimes very pressing.
| There is a story told of an heiress, a girl
very rich in her own right and worth her
1 millions in diamonds, sables, laces and
ceramics. as well as in money, who had
the misfortune to be afflicted with growth
| of hair upon her upper lip.
| In vain this young woman applied depila-
tories, in vain she sought the services OF
| the electric needle, in vain she scrubbed
with this kind of sand and that kind Of
| pumice, for the more she did to kill it the
coarser and more bristling did the hair
| grow. 1t was a lesson apparently in fatality
until finally she was led into shaving.
| Each day of her life and sometimes twice
a day maid, who had learned barbering
went over her upper lip. 1t was terrible
state of affairs, but the young woman had
| no alternative.
| One day a specialist came to her, a man
who made a business OF causing hair to
grow upon bald heads as we'll as of taking
it away from upper lips.
my young lady" said he, you are doing
just the right thing, or almost the right
| thing. Keep on and your hair will die
| out
There is nothing" continued he, shat
will kill the roots Of hair like abuse. The
more YOU abuse your hair the sooner II
will die"
II do not understand" said the young
woman
abuse your hair and 1t will die like any
thing else that is abused" said the hair
specialist And then he went on to give
! examples.
Men get taid," said he. because they
abuse the roots of the hair. I was called
to see a man yesterday who told me that
he had washed his head every morning
for twenty years, going over it with hot
water when he washed his face in the morn
ing.
ale had washed all the natural oil out of
the roots every morning for twenty years.
And vet he could not understand why he
was getting bald. OF course having no
natural oil the roots of the hair died out
! and bald spots were coming fast.
Another man." continued the special
list, told me that he had contracted the
habit of brushing his head daily and six
OF PlRnl lllIlfN IL NlhN WIFI II Hdlu
! brush. 1t had become second nature with
| him to use the harbrush upon his hair
"He kept the brush in little rack in his
| office, and before putting on his hat, or
when taking his hat off, he would pull out
! the brush and 20 over his head with it
The roots of the hair were all torn and
| the hair was becoming so thin that, inside
! of few months. he would have no hair
! to brush.
F., 4But that is nothing. Another man told
f! me that he had shampooed his head daily
| with some kind of preparation for weeks
! and had brushed il forty strokes night and
| morning Besides this he had had it singed
| frequently and had used a tonic upon it.
Between times he had had it massaged.
Now if ever a man does everything to
| rid himself of hair it is the man who is sham
! pooed daily, Uses his hairbrlIsh often, singes
| frequently and does his head with a tonic
| in between times.
"My first and best advice to all of these
men is to let the hair alone. Don't touch
! il comb il az little as possible, and if ii is
very weak and thin, comb it with the fingers.
/; Don't brush il. Don't put anything upon
it. don't rasp the scalp. don't massage it
I don't do anything at all toit, just let it alone,
"If the hair is very dry il can have a little
viii sometimes arrest falling hair. but other
F., wise let il alone. Even after fever do not
cut it of The latest theory for the heads
of typhoid patients is that the hair shall
be left on the head. and not cut, nor shall
the roots be disturbed in any other way"
The woman who has superf!uous hair
growing upon her face can learn lesson
from the bald man. The very methods
! which a man employs TO kill the hair upon
his head will work in her case to kill the
hair upon her face.
She can kill the hair on her upper lip
without much trouble. But she must keep
mt il, slowly, but surely.
II woman could shampoo her upper
lip with some mixture every day, If she
could brush II a dozen times a day with
n raspiug hairbrush, if she could maltreat
her upper lip as man maltreats the top
Of his head. her lip would be free from
hair in short time.
In trying TO rid her lip Of hair she must
try and try, and keep on trying. Don't
give up after few efforts, but keep at
it, Cutting will not do it, neither will
pulling out the hairs, neither will any other
ono thing. but combination Of these
things will undoubtedly free tho lip from
hair,
The best method of all is the electric
needle, but this is expensive. Still il is
worth the while The electric needle is
long, and sharp and it strikes to the root
of the hair. In the hands of the skiful
operator II Is good thing, the best of any,
for il Hills the root at once