The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-11-30

have been forty lie she was a Gay,
though she didn't look II. infatuated
ithey were, but she was more infatu-
ited with him than he was with her,
7 guess. 81
"You know when a woman gets to
be around forty, all the fires Of youth
are apt to burn up in her again. Nspe-
cially IL she's been %unhappily married,
as Mrs. Rintoul had been. She was
crazy about him from the first, and it
was that that attracted him. g.
'sThat was when she began coming
In here to have her face massaged.
She didn't look forty, but there's no
way-no, absolutely nc way-in which
a woman of forty can look like a 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 n Ut
her eyes and mouth, she hadn't the
irmness of flesh that a young woman
has. And the massaging helped some,
but it didn't bring back youth.
"Matty was with me ~then---you re-
member her? That tall, dark girl who
was SO good at m%anicuring. She got
friendly with Mrs. Rintoul, and Mrs.
Rintoul used to confide In her-most
everything, save that she never men,
toned Freddy Laurie's name. Then
Matty told her about the doctor that
made a speciality Of taking out wrin-
kles 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 a k a
flap Of the loose skin away and
tighten the whole face up. That's
what Matty ~advised-and Mrs. Rintoul
fell for it.
"Not good business of Matty's? I
told her so. I reckoned it cost me ten
dollars q week, what with the mas
sage and the hair dressing. Matty was
a fool in a way-but anyhow the harm
was done.
Mrs. Rintoul went to DR.. Deering.
Called himself a doctor, though I guess
he never saw the inside of any med
ical school. Why, they're not allowed
u uo OpCI dlloHS uL1LSoo " nAA
I've heard. However, he knew his job
all right. There's plenty of foolish
women in this town he's operated on
at two hundred and fifty ~apiece-and
changed 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
know. Matty went up to the house
to see her while she was cOnvalescing,
and the report she brought back was
perfectly startling. She said Mrs. Rim
tout hadn't a line in her face-just as
smooth as a baby's. Lord, what some
women will do when they're infatu-
ated with a man!
"The day came when she was out.
Of course Freddy Laurie didn't know
what she'd been doing. He thought
she was i'll with grippe, and every day
he was around there with flowers
and poor Mrs. Laurie crying up at the
Laurie place.
at was Mrs. Rintoul's maid told
Matty what happened when they met.
Young Laurie stared at her as if she'd
turned black. I didn't seem to recog-
nize you. somehow the maid heard
him say. That was ADJUST that.
And Mrs. Rintoul turned as white as a
ghost, and soon after Mr.. Laurie came
away.
"They met once or twice after that,
but their lovemaking was at an end.
When I saw Mrs. Rintoul I saw what
had happened. You see, before the
operation she'd been a sweet-looking
After it-well, everything
was different-her with her smooth,
baby face and her mature figure. She
was a woma Of t~hirty-fve just the
same-nothing could alter that; but
her face-didn't fit.
$50 I don't advise my customers to
have anything to do with DIR. Deering."