The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-30

II it comes out of the process a good
lustrous tint, well and good-but it is
gamble every time. The best OF
dyers cannot tell how the human hair
viii act, and many time after a six
hours trial the hair turns bad color,
and the whole operation must be re-
peated. Even after a skillful dyeing
the patient must visit a hair specialist
at least one a week and have the
roots touched up at a price varying
from 81 to S.
Strengthening the Features.
Dermatological SURGERY has ad-
vanced under the influence of wo-
mans pursuit of beauty until il has
become one of the money-making in
situations of city life. Projecting or ILL
shapen ears. hare lip, thick and pro-
truding lips. bumped. fiat or crooked
noses, all can be reduced to normal
lines; and facial blemishes, such as
freckles, moth patches, scars, birth
marks, smallpox pits. moles, super.
f1uous hair, liver spots and eruptions
will yield to the right sort of treat-
ment-and the mighty dollar. No
scale of prices for these operations
can be quoted The specialist gauges
his price by the financial rating Of
his patient. An operation may cost
Fifty dollars or five hundred dollars.
Dimples are inserted by surgical
methods. and a double chin is remov-
ed by one of two ways. The chin is
laid open and the surplus tissue is
removed. after which the skin is
sewed together, and by modern meth
DDS of surgery all traces of the
stitches are removed. BY the use OF
anesthetics or cocaine. this is practi-
cally a painless operation, but 1t is
less effective than the newer meth
cd of irritating the skin of the face
and chin by some secret process
which draws the superfiuous album
dance of flesh away from the chin
and distributes 1t evenly over the rest
of the face.
ion.
Women will finch at the thought
Of "a visit to the dentist, or make
much ado over some trif1ing cut or
burn on the hand, but they will cheer
fully submit to the shocking and pain
full process known as facial skinning.
In this operation the entire upper
layer of the skin of the face and
neck is eaten off by acids, and a new
layer is grown with what is promised
to be the first flush of youth. 1t is
generally known that the Jersey
Lily" Mrs. Langtry, undergo& this
operation as often as once i'm three
years, and to this she owes her much
Wanted English complexion" But 1t
is not generally known that she pays
Sc, 900 to a French specialist every
time she undergoes this operation.
Nor is she alone when undergoing
the trea trnent. At the same SANTA
rum in Paris are many other women,
Americans in the majority, who are
willing to take chances with their
lives to acquire a baby complexion.
The operation represents complete is
olation for two weeks. during which
time the patient should neither speak
nor laugh, because any facial express
sion, or gramace, or active used of the
muscles OF the face, breaks the deli
cately new-formsd skin and undoes
the work of the specialist.
II must not be thought that the ac-
tress is the main sdpport OF the
beauty specialist. The actress Of the
hour is too busy woman to pursue
beauty as patiently as does her lay
sister. 1t is the society woman, the
miNionaire's WIFE and many foolish
woman who cannot afford the luxury,
who are the main support of beauty
shops.
How the Thin Woman Wrecks Her
Health.
Education and science have done
much to open the eyes OF women re-
garding the care of her body and her
health but they have not cured her
of MANY follies. She stfil eats arsenic
for her complexion, still petrifies her
eyes by the USE OF belladopna, still
takes anti-fats to reduce her weight,
and swatf1es her body in rubber bands
for the same purpose.
The thin woman does the most dam
gerous thing of all when szfe submits
to parafine injections with the hope
of taking on flesh. The paraffina Is
injected under the skin, much as
morphine or any other narcotic. with
the exception that the blood will
absorb It and make flesh. What the
blood generally does absorb is poison
in it's worst form, and the womaus
health is wrecked for life.
But many q woman Will take any
chances to gain beauty. She will even
allow a facial surgeon to lay open
the skin on that most delicate point.
the temple, cut out V-shaped piece
and Join the skin, so that her cheeks,
whioh have grown fabby, will be
raised or drawn up to resume the old
rounded contour.
The most striking evidence Of the
statement that many woman will
pay any price even that of health,
is shown in the rushing business done
by a New York sanitarium whose
speciality is undoing the mischief
wrought by Irresponsible. so-ca1ied
beauty doctors. Here come women
with ruined digestions, disfiguFing
er%apAions with blood poison in its
most Yirulent formal the result of
q proftless, foolhardy chase after
beauty.
Copyright, 1904, by T. O. Mccsure.J