Social Moods.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 423, 2 June 1904, Page 7

Social Moods.

PLiIN WOMEN" BEAUTIFUL.

jjgtrjVjU'CH a thing seems beyond the ivpSjto bounds of possibility—& chapter ggfll out of the ancient history of witchcraft. Yet possible it is; and in theJWeat-End of London there aire witches of to-day—witches, however, qualified by medical degrees, and practising without the aid of charms and incantations—who are able to transform plain, and even positively ugly, women into charming and attractive members of Society. One of the most frequent causea of ugliness-in women is a growth of hair on the face. There is something unnatural and repulsive in this disfiguxement. Many women's lives are made miserable by a moustache and downy beard which on their brothers' or their husbands' "faces would be an embellishment.

To-day, however, there is no need for despair in such a case. The beauty doctors of the West-End are able to remove all superfluous growths onoe and for ever. Their method of treatment is a remarkable'adaptation of the wonders of electricity to .surgical soienoe. The doctor h»s an electric battery with a coil, to which is attached a small needle. The latter is inserted a tenth of an inch beneath the skin, into the very root or ' matrix' of each hair. There is a tiny electric shock, not sufficient to discompose the most sensitive nerves, and the hair comes out, while the germ-cell is entirely destroyed, so that no other hair may grow in place of the one removed, which is always the case when it is merely pluoked out. When done by qualified. persons the little operation causes no sear whatever. One of the most noted of the London beauty doctors recently accomlished the extraordinary feat of removing forty thousand hairs from a young lady—a peer's daughter—who bow rejoices in a shapely and beautiful pair of arms which were formerly disfigured by long brown haire.

The triumph of scientific invention is adapted to many kinds of disfigurement. It removes moles and warts and other excreEC3ncea quite easily, and one beauty doctor has made- the valuable discovery that by metfiß of tbe electric needle she is able to entirely remove those disfigurements known as ' pottwine stains.' To do so requires considerable time and patience, but women who know the value of an attractive appears noe—and what woman does not P —will make any saorifioe to remove a blemish which makes them unsightly in the eyes of the world.; The ' staiss' are caused by an accumulation of blood vessels under the skin; and the electric needle closes the vessels and forces the blood farther back, so that the skin resumes its normal complexion. Seme women with good, features are spoilt in looks by heavy eyebrows meeting across the bridge of the nose, or by eyebrows too . uniformly straight, or again by eyebrows bo arched that they always wear a look of absurd surprise. These defects may all be removed by the skilled operator, An old woman oan never regain the beauty of youth, hot a young woman who by worry or ill-health has become wrinkled before her tine may be restored to the. smoothness of skin whioh is one of the chief charms o! beauty. The beauty doctors have a valuable little instrument like a miniature rolling-pin at the end of a long handle, whioh Removes premature crow's feet and wrinkles, Toe face is softened by being bathed in hot water, and the wrinkles are then rolled down again and again softly and persuasively. It sounds too good to be true, but is ft fact, that when the faoe is cooled and the skin becomes firm in regaining its normal temperature the crow's feet are eliminated. Wnen boots creak rub the sides of the soles with sweet oil, and allow it to soak ■v, '■-..-':•■