MAKING WOMEN BEAUTIFUL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2546, 3 November 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

MAKING WOMEN BEAUTIFUL.

There is (says the Now York World) a woman in New York who has a growing clientele of patients comiug to her to be treated for ugliness. They may be in perfect health physically, bat not quite at peace in their minds because of defects which render them impleading in the eyes of their fellow mortals, and she ministers to this mind diseased by curing as far as is possible the complaint of plainness. Women go to her to be made thinner or stouter, to have their colour heightened or reduced, to be treated for ugly complexions, red eyes, thin hair, round shoulders, and all physical faults which in-ike the difference between beauty und the luck of it. To women who are too stout she recommends a bath of salt water in the morniDg, two or three handfuls of rock salt being put in the bath over-night and allowed to dissolve. They must be rubbed down with a heavy Turkish towel after this salt bath, and are to sleep on hard beds, while tho only internal treatment she prescribes is congresswater and a grain or two of roasted coffee to be chewed half an hour before meals, which will greatly lessen the appetite for food. She suggests a diet of cresses, lettuce, and spinach, with desserts of Iceland moss lilies. Thin women Bhe feeds on carrots and parsnips, and doses them with a few drops of acid phosphate between meals, to give them an appetite for tho muffins, browu bread, oatmeal, and fruit that are to form the greater part of their diet. But what she principally relics upon to add flesh to thin girls is a pint of sweet milk to be drunk every night just before getting into bed. She orders off the corsets of round-shouldered girls, and puts them into braces instead, with daily exercises on a pulling machine to help on tho good work; while awkward and heavy girls are eiven a bar over which they are to jump many times every day. When a woman has become too florid, she is fed on sassafras tea and given hot baths ; and the pale woman has her baths cold and a bottle of claret each day. The " beauty doctor," as she is called, has effected some wonderful cures of plainness, and in several cases has taken entire charjre of a woman for six months, with the result that at the end of that time her friends scarcely knew her, so greatly had her appearance changed. There is talk of an intirinary or private hospital being established near New York, of which the beauty doctor is to have charge, and where woman will go, as they do now to the rest cures, to undergo thorough treatment for ugliness. This female beauty cultivator, is very stern and dictatorial, and will immediately give up a case if her directions are not followed to the letter. Sh has great hopes of her hospital, where her patients will bo directly under her eyes and she can see that her ideas arc carried out. Sho holds that there is no excuse for thorough ugliness, and that it can be to a great extent made a matter of will with a woman whether she will bo pretty and pleasing or not.