CRAZE FOR BEAUTY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 219, 14 March 1912, Page 8

CRAZE FOR BEAUTY

GRIM SEQUEL TO WOMAN'S VANITY. Berlin, January 19. A mad craving to become beautiful at all costs has resulted in a Berlin noblewoman, the wife of an officer, having to be taken to an insane asylum, and a woman who induced her to pay £3OOO for a "sure road -to beauty" has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for fraud. " A middle-aged Silesian woman recently opened a "beauty parlor" at Munich. Hearing of the Berlin noblewoman's passion to correct the deficiencies of which she was a- victim at the hands of 'Mother Nature, the proprietress of the "beauty parlor" sent word that she had a friend, a masseuse, who could administer "cosmetic treatment" which was guaranteed to convert the homeliest features into a pretty face, and the most impossible of figureß into a form over which sculptors would have. The owner of the "beauty parlor" received £3OOO in advance, as agreed Hpon,and proceeded to administer the "treatment," but before it had proceeded very far the fraud came to light in time for the police to secure' possession of the, bulk of the money. The only effect of the treatment was to mar the noblewoman's face with a distressing rash, while her figure retains its unattractive lines. Her relatives found it desirable to have the" unhappy woman placed in an asylum.