Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1884 — WARTS AND MOLES. [ARTICLE]

WARTS AND MOLES.

How to Exterminate These Pests of Pretty Paces. An old nonk is credited with saying that the one ambition of woman is a pretty face, and for that charm will she risk life and defy death. When the influence es a pretty face is taken into consideration, it is not hard to believe that most any woman will do anything and try everything to secnre it. A pretty faee is a fortune, and if there is any possible chance of attaining the one or securing the other nine women out of every ten are willing to take that chance. No long ago a man from Barcelona established himself in Chicago, and, seeming letters to a few popular families, succeeded in building np a reputation that gave promise of a princely in some. He circulated among the wealthier classes and treated women in their own private apartments, and in less than a month had collected $6,000. He did 1 tile mischief, but the torture he subjected hi> freckled patients to wonld have made him a valuable adjunct to the Spanish inquisitors. One young woman paid him sls an hour for treating the saucy little freckles that dotted her pretty nose. Mademoiselle was tied in a chair and her nose plugged np with bits of sponge saturated with ether. When sufficiently stupefied, the man went to work with a knife and literally skinned her entire face. A solution of diluted muriatic acid was then applied to the raw sitrface, and the screams of the poor little fool could be heard all over the bouse. But mamma had decided on her girl’s success as a debutante, and she gave directions to have her under narcotic’s for a couple of days. The next step was to cut the brown pigments right out of the flesh. They came out, too, and the face healed up, but the young woman’s constitution has been completely undermined, and neither doctor nor nurse has been able to find out what ails her. Another patron, who worried her empty little head about meeting eyebrows submitted to a plucking, and as each individual hair had to be plucked out by tiie root it was fully three weeks before the bridge of her nose was uncovered; hut the operation cost her $..00. The friend to whom she recommended her artist was less successful. She was troubled with a hollow neck, hut prided herself upon her satiny skm, which, however, could not be displayed owing to the unsightly depression between her throat and collar. The man applied a suction-pump and undertook to blow out the hollow. An attack was made on one side of the depression, but the result was so far in excess of expectation that the woman was horrified at her deformity and became so obstreperous that Senor Moth-and-freckle-ex-terminator fled the town, and has never been seen or heard of since, 'lhe now sadly adiieted belle sought a strange doctor, who treated her for goitre, and kept her so long nnder a coat of iodine that she is marked for the next ten years w.th the ineradicable yellow. The value of good looks must be fully appreciated when women of this century have recourse to this heroic treatment. Verily, there is no such element as unalloyed happiness, and if a woman have fine teeth, good hair, bright eyes, and a patrician nose, there is certain to he a mole, wart, pimple, birthmark, discoloration, moth, patch, hepatica-spot, hives, prickly-heat, or some similar blemish which, although hut skin-deep, suffices to make her existence a bore. The worst of the matter is, that as soon as the bete noire is attacked, myriads before unseen present themselves, and the case becomes so hopeless that Miss Speckleface throws away her handglass and devotes her wits to the pow-der-puff and rouge-pot, determined to cover np the blemishes that, like the sins of her forefathers, cannot be eradicated. This is after all, as it should be, for thirty days’ fretting are more disastrous to youth and beauty than a bushel of skin eruptions. I here is one foe to beauty, however, which nothing short of a mask will cover, and that is the little wart or mole, made doubly hideous by the tuft of hair, which sometimes grows to be two inches long. That this defect is a thorn in the flesh, any woman so afflicted can testily, and there really is no jeeason why the irritation should be endured. Any woman who cares for appearances can certainly take time to pull out the hairs. To be sure, more will grow, hut they can he watched and plucked out also as soon as they reach the surface. If this simpler operation is continued—daily, if necessary—the roots will one by one yield, and finally the growth will cease. Now take a piece of strong, fine twist, tie it securely around' the mole, and, as circulation is thus cut off, decomposition will set in and in two weeks the annoyance will disappear.