Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1922-08-30
In the Beauty
Parlor

BY JOHN PALMER
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|saged pretty nearly every day7 Fine
looking woman she was, wasn't shel
Yes, there's story about that, and
don't mind telling it you, now that
she's left these parts
you remember Freddy Laurie, who
married Squire Embree's daughter?
iGood.hearted fellow he was, but wild,
land couldn't resist women. He hadn't
been mdrried more than year before
Mrs. Klntoul and he-well, don't
want to speak hard Of any one, but 1t
was easy to see how things lay be-
tween those two. Fascinated with
each other from the start, they were,
and poor Mrs. Laurie crying her eyes
out III the Laurie plnce.
"Night after night he'd bo seen driv.
Ing about with Mrs. Rintoul Freddy
wasn't more than thirty, and she must
have been forty If she was IL day,
though she didn't look it. infatuated
they were, but she was moro infatu-
ated with him than he was with her,
! guess.
"You know when woman gets to
Ibe around forty, ull the fires Of youth
arc apt to burn up in her again. Espe-
'clally II she's been unhnppily married,
as Mrs. ltntoul had been. She was
crazy about him from the first, and it
was that that attracted him.
"That was when she began coming
In here to have her fncc mussagel.
She didn't look forty, but there's no
,wny-no, absolutely no wuy-in which
a woman Of forty can look like girl
,of twenty-five. They all think they
can, though Mrs. Rintoul looked five
years younger than she was, but she
had little lines about the corners Of
her eyes and mouth, she hadn't the
,firmness Of flesh that young woman
has. And the mussaging helped some,
but 1t didn't bring back youth.
"Matty was with me then-you re-
member her? That tall, dark girl who
was 50 good ut manicuring. She got
friendly with Mrs. Rintoul, and Mrs.
Rintoul used to conflde in her-most
Everything. save that she never men,
|tioned Freddy Laurie's name. Then
Matty told her about the doctor that
[made speciality Of taking out wrin-
tkles by operating.
"Of course that's really the only
permanent cure. You can massage
and massage, but the lines will always
come back again unless you take a
flap Of the loose skin away and
Tighten the whole faco up. That's
what Matty advised-and Mrs. Rintoul
(fell for 1t.
"Not good business OF Mnttys9 J
told her 30 reckonch it cost mc ten
ldollars q week, what with the mAs-
Usage anu the hair dressing. Alatty was
was done.
Mrs. Rintoul went to DR.. Deerlng.
Called himself doctor, though guess
he never saw the inside Of any med
Heal school. Why, they're not allowed
to do operations unless for sickness,
i've henrd. However, he knew his job
all right. There's plenty Of foolish
twomen in this town he's operated on
at two hundred and fifty npiece-and
ichnnged their faces SO that you'd
Hardly know they were the same
people.
Mrs. Rintoul went to him, and after
that she stayed home for two weeks,
waiting for the scars to heal. They
make the cuts under the hair, you
lknow. Matty went up to the house
Ito sec her while she was conynlescing,
land the report she brought back was
lperfectly startling. She said Mrs. Rim
|toul hadn't line in her face-just as
lsmooth rs baby's. Lord, what some
lw omen Will do when they're infatu.
lated with q mani
"The day came when she was ont,
tOf course Freddy Laurie didn't know
what she'd been doing. He thought
she was III with grippe, and every day
The was around there with flowers
and poor Mrs Laurie crying up Mt the
Laurie place.
1T was Mrs Rintoul's maid told
Matty what happened when they met.
Young Laurie stared at her as If she'd
turned black. Il didn't seem to recog-
nize you somehow, the maid heard
him say. That was ADJUST that.
And Mrs. Rintoul turned rs white rs a
ghost, and soon after Mr.. Laurie came
away.
"rhcy met once or twice after that,
hut their lovemaking was at m end ,
When l saw Mrs. Rintoul I snw what :
had happened. You sec, before tho !
operation she'd been q swcet-looking /
woman. After it---welI, everything /
was dlfferent-hcr with her smooth, |
baby face and her mature figure. She .
was woman Of thirty-five just the
same-nothing could alter that; but
her face-didn't fit.
$50 I don't advise my customers to !