BEAUTY DOCTORING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3048, 19 November 1908, Page 4

BEAUTY DOCTORING.

It is snid that "all Australian women who go to England for a trip on pleasure or business bent fall under the influence of the 'beautydoctor' at fashion's shrine." It will be well tor them, however, in the light of what haa just happened to Mrs George Heath, the wife of the well-known London hatter, if they refrain in future from making a hobby of the cult of the beauty doctor. Mrs George Heath has just been awarded by a sympathetic jury £SOO damages against a Bond Street beauty doctor, who impaired instead of improving her client's charms of feature and complexion. It is not the first* time that the victim of a beauty doctor has emerged from the torture chamber with complexion irretrievably ruined. Hubert's injunction to the executioners to "heat me these irons hot" is one that is frequently obeyed, it seems, by certain beauty doctors who are in the habit of professing to remove superfluous fat by the barbarous process.of applying hot flat-irons to an adipose victim's double chin. "Another method," as the cookery book says, is to flay the victim alive, by removing an unsatisfactory complexion, skin and all, after which the sufferer goes into retirement until Nature has time to produce a secofid cuticle. The case in question is sure to arouse widespread interest, and it may even result in a demand for registering all beauty doctors and demanding of them a certain standard of proficiency.