Making Women Beautiful.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3027, 12 October 1888, Page 3

Making Women Beautiful.

■Tlicro" is (says tho Now York Herald), a woman in Now York who - has a growing clientele, of patients coming to hor to bo'treated for ugliness. They maybe in perfeot health pbisically, but • not quite at peace in thoir minds because-, of tho defects ' 'Which render them unploasing' in ' ■ tho eyes of their (fellow mortals, and she ministers to this'mind diseased by curing, as far as possiblo, this I . complaint of plainness, Women' go to ber to bo made thinner or stouter,, ■jgfo havo their color .heightened or' to be treated for ugly com- '. plcxious, red eyes; thin hair, round i shoulders, and all tho physical faults j which mako tho diffetenco boiween beauty and tho lack of it. To women . whoire too "stout she recommends - a bflw'salt water in tho morning, two or three handfulls.of rock sj.lt being put in tho bath overnight' and being allowed to dissolve, They mwt bo nibbed down with a heavy Turkish towel after this bath, and are to'sleep on hard beds, whilo the only internal treatmont jlie prescribes is cougress v.ator, arid a'grain

or two of roasted coffco to bn chewed half-an-hour before meals, which will ' greatly lessen tho appetito for food. She suggests a diet of. cresses, f ' lettuce, and spimiach, with doserts of J Iceland moss lilies. Thin women ' shofcods on newts'and parsnips, j anddososthen: .itha fow. drops of|< ,-acid phosphate Lefore meals to give | J ' them an appetite for tho muffins, ij bwn bread, oatmeal, and fruit, that ( -'iSKoforra the greater part of their [ diet. But what she principally roli Aipon to add tlesh to thin ' girlsTs a pint of sweet milk to bo drunk ovory night just before getting into bed. She orders off tho corsets of round-shouldered girls and,; and puts them into bracos .instead, [ with daily exorcises on a pulling > machine to help on tho good work; ] whilo awkward and heavy girls arc given a bar over which they aro to jump many times every day. When a woman has bceomo too florid she is fed on sassafras tea and giveu hot! baths, and the pale woman has, lie'rj - baths cold and a bottle of claret each day. This" beauty doctor,!' as alio is called, has effected some wonderful cures of plainness, and in several cases has taken entire charge of a woman for six months with the result that at tho end of that period her frionds scarcely knew her, so greatly had her appearanco ohangod,- There is talk of an infirmary or privato liosMal being established near -Now York, of which the beauty doctor is to have charge, and where women will go, as thoy do now to tho rest curejjto undergo thorough treatment for Spurn Tho female beauty oul- . tivator is very stern and dictatorial, and will immediaaely give up a case if her directions aro not followed to the letter. She has, great hopes! of her hospital, whoro her patients will bo directly under her eye, and she can see that her ideas, aro. carried out. She holds that there is no oxouse for thorough ugliness, and that it oan be to a great extent made a matter of will with a woman whether she will bo pretty and pleasing or not.