The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-08
QUEST
 OF BEAUTY Foolish Things Women Do to Improve Their
 Faces.
DOCTOR SAYS MASSAGE
Makes Wrinkles Instead of Smoothing Them Out.
 Face Skinning, etc.

What 60 women do that is wrong when they get the craze to beautify themselves? Well, really they do so many thoughtless, silly things that if tried to answer in one sentence l would say they made fools of them selves"
 The speaker was a physician who is skin specialist, and he sat In his off, flee having questions fired at him by the reporter
 Massage is about the least harmful thing they do when possessed of the beauty craze, and yet that is bad enough he went on. "The usual for mula for facial massage is, I believe, first to open the pores of the skin by steaming or bathing with very hot wa ter, then to rub in a lotion or cream of some sort, Now, wouldn't you think that treatment would stretch the skin?
 'The immediate effect is good, yes. But why? Simply because the skin is thoroughly cleaned, the thirsty pores are filled with a soothing lotion and in the process the blood is drawn to the surface sufficiently to impart glow of health to the face.
 But the result, when the immed- fate effect has passed, is to cause more lines or wrinkles The harder the mas sage the more injurious 1t is to the face.
 While I strongly advocate the gen. tie application of a good cold cream I have not found massage at all sat- isfactory. I also advocate the appli- cation of sweet milk to the face, It is not only soothing and healing, but Whitens the skin.
 "Just the usual bottled milk may be used It should be applied at night with a soft rag or bit of cotton, and allowed to dry on. I know of nothing better for tan, sunburn or chapped skin. It is a simple, inexpensive rem edy, and for that reason will never be very popular
 "A step worse than facial massage is the peeling or skinning process That is usually done by the application of an acid which causes the outer cutcle to peel off
 "Of course, the stronger the acid the quicker the peeling, and also, might add, the more painful. Why, I have had women come to me who described their sufferings while having their faces skinned in agony How any thinking human being could ever im- agine that such treatment would im- prove the skin is beyond me!
 "A woman who came to me few weeks ago told me that when the first application was put on her face swelled so that her eyes looked like pinheads. Yet she went back for a second treat ment and finally had the satisfaction of seeing the skin peeled off her face in great flakes.
 "Of course the first time she went out and exposed her delicate new skin to the air all the old marks returned. Fortunately her experience was so se- we're that when she was told that a second skinning was the only recourse she rebelled.
 ''Yet another step to be had, and it would be hard to imagine anything worse, is taking out slips of skin as a means of restoring the contour oi the cheeks and chin. It Is done every day, and women who should know bet ter allow it and pay high prices to have 1t done.
 "Only few days ago woman came here and suggested that I take out little slip of skin over each temple Her cheeks had lost their youthful con tour and were sagging around the jaws
 '"The operation, so she told me, had just been performed on a friend of hers. Three stitches had been taken in each temple.
 q asked if the wounds had healed She was very cheerful about it, and she said: oh, no But the surgeon says the operation was a perfect suo- cess, and it is only question of 1 time.'
 q sent her back to her friends sur geon, of course. l wasn't going to cut wedges of skin out of her temples tc draw the sagglng skin up from around her jaws
 "There is one amusing instance tha' has recently come to my notice. A wo- Sl bunch of curls on each side of her face the kind that were in fashion cen tury ago.
 "When she made her appearance wondered what had happened. Her OK pression was not happy, so it didn't take much guessing for me to be sure that the curls were necessity and not whim.
 "She had been having her face treat cd by some one of the many women who advertise to do marvellous feats in the way of making the homely beau tiful. She had had her face blistered for the purpose of removing a discolor- ation.
 'The blistering had been repeated several times with the result that long white patches were left to take the place of the pigment. The poor wom an had to cover the white patchS! 1 in some way, so she resorted to those | old fashioned punches of curls. "But, do you know, I blame the state officials, the men who have the power | to prevent incompetent persons iron, posing upon the public, more than I dc l their victims Why should man or woman without q diploma, or thu 1 slightest pretensions to medical know | ledge, be allowed to treat person.! l face when he is not allowed to treat { l persons feet There is a great and in crossing demand for facial treatment and the authorities should see to it tha the public is not deceived by ignoran l charlatans.
 "While l do not wholly reeommen the use Of pagiffin, il ia much bette | than some of the devices resorted l.
 by people who wish to cure or con
 ceal facial deformities. Nov take tn 1 case of sunken cheeks.