Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-08


Comes"-instead of the significant strains of Lohengrn
and the bushing bride pranced up the aisle
great white charger instead of leaning gracefully on
her fathers of the wedding guests could have
been amazed.
The bride always had been the neighborhoods uglest
ducklne with such disfigured skin that people often
towns most eligible young because she wasn't ugly
any BY miracle of medical science this ducking
had been turned into 1941-model
The face that her misfortune had been
scientifically shifted from the debit to the credit side of
balance Skilled specialists had peeled off all
her facial pits and scars
On this day greatest happiness the bride told
her story the benefit of other ugly ducklings.
There was terrifying moment" she confessed
"vhile nv wedding veil was being adjusted. / looked
into mirror lived again the lonely unhappy
years when had friendsno fun-and couldn't even
get a decent job because my face was so homey II
would stop clock.
Maybe you've never had to walk in and out of offices
looking for work. always displaying repulsivelooing
mug. It's fun trying to be nonchaant when you see
pity CONSERVATION stamped the face of the fellow
you to interview.
MAYBE you've never eaten your heart the
wallflower row--or stil-at home with good
Homely girls fall in love too But it does good
That is when you realize that there's only a half
truth the old ditty My face don't mind it, for
behind it. the fellow in front gets the jar. If it's
your face that jars you certainly do mind it.
That's why-when 1 got tired of hearing such re-
handsome is as handsome does and beauty is
only deep, fell for the idea that LONELINESS too.
might go the bone had heard of the wonders
skin specialists sometimes perform
so, years this girl had disappeared from
the old home town She back changed that many
of her old acquaintance didn't recognize her.
This is only example of how correcting facial
Disagreement change whole life
In a recent issue of the Journal of the American
Medical Association Or. Joseph J. Eller well-known
dermatologist and his associate Shirley Wolff explain
the methods of skin peeling to improve facial
defects
Some skeptics may think that this cosmetic device
Of shedding old skin and getting one is useful
only turn wealthy old DANES and dowagers into
glamour Girls or 20 change old men frors tired business
men into Don Juans.
That may have been the purpose of skin peeing in
ancient Egypt and Babylon where it done after
by rubbing off the undesirable outercoverng with
pumce. But modern medcos have developed skin peeng
into an exact science improve looks of people
need it most men and women who might turn into mis-
fits because Of ugly skin
Stubborn OF pmply condition that affects
young and in their late and early
twentes. often leave permanent pits and and
skin that IS oily and unattractve The victims of small
poX chickenpox may out healthy but with much
marked face Some people have been doomed to self
lives because they ashamed large brown
splotches their skin-the so-caed liver spots.
The present day technique Of taking off ugly skin
really only hurying up by the Of chemicals Of
what Nature does to everyones face all the time Day
after day cells Of the epderms outer layer Of
die and fan off Applying special lotions or pastes
this shedding process and many skin cells
at one time revealing the new" skin underneath
Chemicals all the way from salicylc acid TO super
cold dry may be used in special preparations But
treatment must be suited the patient
peeing is not little odd Job that can be done at home
Only thoroughly qualified medical person should do it.
And while the expert does the work the patient
supplies the courage. Because he expect 20 go
through various stages all the way looking like
broed lobster to a slightly stale mummy. before the
job finished
Deep pits and defects may need a special treatment
called scacation before the peeng process
lotions paste suited the individual skin applied
usually be left several hours The probably
viii get red and swollen as a result later IL may turn
reddish brown and finally take a parchment like
mummifed look Then cracks show up and the peeling
Job starts
Sometimes the process has 10 be repeated several
before the new face is satisfactory But the be
and after pictures Of the patients tell
what remarkable thing medical science is doing in
furnishing faces for old where they arc needed