Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1885 — Electricity Instead of Tweezers. [ARTICLE]

Electricity Instead of Tweezers.

“Yes, sir, I am a depillator,” said a man in an office in Brooklyn, “and my business is to eradicate hairs from the faces or arms of women. The torture to which women subject themselves by using tweezers upon disfiguring hairs, which spring up again stronger than ever, suggested my business. There are cosmetics which burn off the hair and spoil the complexion, but leave the roots to sprout out afresh, and experience has shown that they are dangerous as well as useless. I make use of electricity. It is the orly remedy. I apply a minute spark of electricity to each individual hair, and thus kill the hair permanently, without any perceptible blemish to the skin. About 10 per cent, of the roots retain life after the first operation, but a second destroys these stragglers. The process is also applied to moles, warts, and birthmarks of all kinds. I destroyed a pretty autumn leaf on the face of a young lady not long ago. Painful? No more than the application of tweezers.” —New York Sun. “It am de walk over man dat siles his character,” says Opie Read, author of “Plantation Philosophy." “No matter how clean er rooster may be, let him follow er duck all day an’ at night he’ll be muddy.” There is a land suit in Germany which was begun in 1604. They must be poor lawyers there not to have gobbled that land over two centuries and a half ago. A “paint mine” has been discovered at Corinth, Me.