The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-17
A CuHous Question.


 This lady, I remember. one day asked me a rather curious question.
 Doctor" she said, have you ever fallen in love with one of your own clients?"
 I do not know what prompted her to ask the question; she may have thought I had fallen in love with her, and although she was greatly in love with another man, and certainly not in the least in love with me, l dare not say that 1t would not have dis pleased her to think that I had fallen in love with her.
 Indeed, I think many of my clients have imagined that I have fallen in love with them, or at all events have hgreatly admired them. It is indeed necessary for a beauty doctor to make his clients think so.
 You see. mems love and the admir- alton of men are the things that a beauty doctors clients think more of than anything else, and they expect every man with whom they arc thrown into intimate contract, if not actually to fall in love with them, at all events to very much admire them
 ItAis a rare thing for a beauty doc tor to really fall in love with one of his own clients. Obviously it would place him in a very awkward posi- ton if he did.
 A Most Attractive Woman.
 During the war I had three or four ladies as clients who were in the British Secret Service. They did not come to me so much with the object of acquiring beauty getting a com pleto arferattoni made in their appear ance.
 One was an extremely pretty wom- an of about twenty-five. Itold her that 1t would be easy to carry out the alteration in her appearance, which she desired to have made in it. but" I said If I do so it will greatly detract from your beauty"
 My life is worth more to me than my beauty" she answered, and in life wouldn't be worth a red cent if certain people were to recognize me-"
 Another of these ladies said a curi- ous thing to me one time. I saw her one night at dinner at the Carl ton Restaurant in company with 5 man. Some few days late she came to me for treatment, and I recognized her at once. Directly you came into my room" I said to her. T knew had seen you somewhere be- fore. I sat opposite you the other night at the Carlton"
 She looked at me rather strangely. and then said. Do you know why companion was?" I shook my head. ''Well,' she replied. ''it doesn't matter who he was but believe he was shot this morning as he deserved to be-"
 This lady. by the way. was one of the most attractive women I thought l had ever met. She was not very beautiful, but she had a great person. al charm. I have said that have never fallen in love with a client, but I nearly did so with this one
 The personal relations between a beauty doctor and his clients should be of a friendly and even intimate character. But even with the best in- tentions in the world 1t is not always an easy thing for a beauty expert to maintain the relations that should exist between himself and his clientsa
 Sometimes it happens that a client falls in love with her beauty doctor. and this may place them in quite an awkward position as if he fell in love with her. In the latter a case a man of a strong will and character may conquer his feelings so far, at all events. as to prevent them being ap- parent to his client; but if a client falls in love with him he Is placed in the most helpless position.
 I know of Paris beauty expert one fo whose clients. a beautiful lady. the wife of a wealthy banker. fell desperately in love with him.
 An Awkward Position.
 It was a most unfortunate circurn- stance for both that she did so. The lady was about % years of age; she had been on best of terms with her husband during the ten years of her married life, but when she fell n love with the doctor she took a vio- lent dislike to her husband.
 MADAME, REvAHfIEyR