The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-09

Your Face Made over.
oh Beauty Docs since you can now con-
To grasp some sorry face or two entire.
How do you shatter. skin a bit and then
Remold it nearer to the hearts desire.
New York, Aug. s.-Really it's get
ting to be quite the thing to have
ones face done over every season or
so-quite like one has the house or
the limousine refinished and redec-
GRATED, don't you know? Only when
it comes to face values, it certainly
takes a bit OF doing.
If Charles V or Philip II of Spain
could only peep in on one. of our up
to-date beauty parlors in full opera
ton, they'd blush for very shame over
the puerile and feeble accomplish
ments of their erstwhile inquisitorial
torture chambers. SHINING 'em alive
was one of their particular pet pas
times. Nowadays, however, fragile fe-
males suffer a skinning as d mere in
cident in their frenzied seeking for
pulchritude. They turn one cheek and
then the other to prove that beauty is
only skin deep. With the aid of a
skilled beauty expert. several assist
ants, some acid and a bit of slow
agony, they shed a weather. beaten
epidermis for a peaches and cream
new babesfin and call it a well spent
day. If you are contemplating a
skinning, however. it were we'll to
count on more than a union day. A
few hours will see you skinned all
right, but you will still have to do a
bit of time and a bit of suffering in
the privacy of your boudoir before
your face is quite itself in its brand
new cuticle.
Then there's the fatal double chin
the dreaded crows-foot and all the
other. ills that beauty's heir to. II
You don't object to snip here and a
slash there and a bit of plain and
fancy sewing. these can all be put
! quite out OF countenance. Some Of
our best known movie idols and idol
cites have had gussets and cores and
tucks and French seams taken in their
physiognomies, till there isn't even a
poor little elusive laugh wrinkle left
among the lot
As yet this facial surgery and wrin-
Kle removing science is in its infancy,
put among the theatrical profession il
has undoubtedly proved a great sue
cess, With the perfection that time
| and experience and experiments al
ways add, it will soon become as COM
mon thing to have your face done
| over as to have your crooked teeth
Strengthened up into plumb.
! A bit of butchery changed the man
! OF Europe and now a bit of butchery
VIII do the same for Milady's map. All
the wonders the surgeons performed
durlns the war on the unfortunate
jaw and face victims OF the Huns
atrocities will now be turned to the
account of the willing female vic
ums, eager to suffer in the cause of
pulchritude. This new method of
cutting and lifting the skin and draw
ing 1t up over the temples and fore
head to eliminate wrinkles and puffs
about the eyes. the eliptical incisions
and sutures and such like to abolish
a superfluity of chins certainly has il
! all over that recently exploited method
/ OF filling up the hollows with LIQUID
paraffin. At the hard finish, a sort
OF lump jaw effect was the oftenest
result obtained.
Tho our old friends Charlie v and
Phil II would undoubtedly feel quite
at home among the fiendish para
! phernalia attendant upon the process
OF turning perfectly good straight hair
into the crooked path of the curly, the
permanent wave process is really not
so bad as II looks or smells. So greatly
has it been perfected since its first
invention that now it is as simple and
| painless as a manicure. Sometimes
! OF course you do get a bit "het" up
in the scalp and feel as If some love
locks were being plucked out by the
roots, but on the other hand and Oft
times both some of our best little
manicures souge out corner and go to
bloody lengths on the cuticle, so there
You are.
To be sure It takes lot of cash and
a lot of fortitude, but IL you don't
weaken you can weekend at a beauty
parlor these days. going in a plain
Jane and emerging perfect Mary
| Pickford.
With so much beauty right ready
just for the pay and the pain, you
can't help thinking that the years to
come will be so cloyed and surfeited
with just one beauty after another
that an ordinary au naturelle girl with
a wrinkle or a chin or two will stand
out refreshingly amidst so much
pulchritude, like an oasis in the
| Sahara Just as A gamble, I think I'll