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Show ioj; v Five Thsuand BsmzARS YMot ; o & M . :l wS?A b R is a Small Sum fr aWsmm vJ 1' il IJY S. BICHARDSON. Copyright, m. by T. C. McClure.) mHE American -woman will pay & any price within her roach for I beauty. Give mo a formula which will Insure a beautiful plexltm nnd the rest of mankind write the plays or mlno the gold." ild p.Kov York man who has spent ity-dre years In building up a trade uman hair, and who Invented the information" which haB changed y p. plain and severe looking face a pleasing plcturo set In a gold oppcr-colored frame. ;entyflve years ago this man was nple maker of wigs for the theatrl-irofeESlon. theatrl-irofeESlon. He had a small shop In bcure street. He might have been be tame shop and on tho same t today had ho not acted on tho estlon of the change which his wigs igbt In the appearance of the ac-j ac-j he served, began to investigate the connec-between connec-between features and hair, between olorlng of the eyes and the coloring ;e hair. When the season In stage was dull, he experimented with Irwst hair he- could obtain. The re-R-as a transformation piece or false adour. so lightly, so skillfully i that It could be fitted over the ral hair and defy detection, experimented next with one of the noted stage beauties, fitted the .formation in color and shape to lead, on which the natural hair had practically ruined by the use of . When the actress next appeared re the footlights the critics declared looked younger than ever. Women articular raved over her hair, and fortunes of the little wlgmaker td from that hour, day he owns one of the handsomest i In New York City. Thick velvet el3 deaden the footfall, dull green a covers the wall, inset with bov-mlrrors, bov-mlrrors, from the very heart of h branch out candelabra with ln-erable ln-erable light", and the man who pre-i pre-i over this feminine fairy land owes ?resent poiltlon to the fact that ho lake a few years off the appearance woman by tho deft handling of the about her face. Hllllonalre Boauty Doctors. HI another Now York hairdresser. JMH ipeclalty 3 matching switches FZ IWajtlflclRl fronts with hair that Is S&1 ;vnuIuHar UnKe' together with the (W,ro1 dyeing of hair, has a home In the ; fyoalre section of Fifth avenue. 'I tviiiaD0lhc'r nlace at Newport, and a ff j jMM on Long Island. He never specu- k uyh v6Ver mvesta his money in any I ! 5u,s,lncs3 enterprise. He makes fmr?v '?.r ot hl3 enormous income J SU?HUfylns the ncad3 o women. ' ltr r- J, , re of oruInary artistic abll- ri PiriT JJLJ" a 8maU "Western city to Yv( SmfJ; th the Intention of studying the ' c tw!tlV0 arU After te "rat year i Ur7ue 5roceciIng politely toward ' SJfr but paU8eu n this unfor- t u rJ ney t0 cosl3cr the Immense beta? 0ae.y pald t0 Parisian bcautv am?i,A,w AmcrIcan women. With ' tta h nt Le,promptneS9 thcv aed on ffcKLTOntlccd themselves to fc S L Plall3ts- When they had I 1 camJS?vn,s?as o treatment. " t fev SS?n. V York and secured a 2 vmone v-'men who had . Wa ,,i, 0 m ono of the most ex- "SrKM h0tel8 of th0 city. ''j the o!i2fthe L?sl ot a Frisian Td 'bffi'f nn American, and she ! torfiS Xe,an 4aPPntment with JmSaUcrCatmCnt "1USt Speak Chttl,V a,blSor dividend 6 '. Mhtm hi;;,n,nd ,c yu cannot 1 S to Ski ZlltyX' X pays tolerably ' 'D? Thnno evcn a le better Price toand.1 oC won,en will pay the Dri11.,,1 "tie of a beauty, jfll ur. eithlr bc pald without a Nth Itself. r ln cash- paln even iJ U tnfaYear Beauty. r nlU? ,'h0 playa the social k to ronniv i worth and lB com-SUflj com-SUflj ot sle?pLbti:artlclal means the 3 -1 the rav-it0 repalr b' the same Of.'i T' StfhU fC ,ctcrnal cxclte- Iffi thaut on"P 1Jer expenses. she S.ifffck keep her hn3 hlr about 000 a )0V At h&ir, h p .bQ0ty. her complexion, J 'Jfen. "ands and her eyes in con- Jto'o? Hem does not Include ' 'mf niald A 2lb,U8 or t'o sen-ices if,X;l other arts ot tervals, and In every large olty there are house-to-house manicurists, hairdressers hair-dressers and masseurs who make a good living, either on their own account, ac-count, or by working on commission for some recognized beauty doctor. The woman who can pay $5000 to make herself presentable gives up the price cheerfully, almost carelessly. The womun who can spend only 5500 or perhaps per-haps even ?50 grieves at the smallness of her allowance for such expenditures. New York Beauty Bind. In no cltjln tho world Is this mad search for beauty carried on so frantically franti-cally as In New York. Here come women wo-men from all over the United States ln search of beauty specialists, not because be-cause they have no beauty doctors In their own town, but because they prefer pre-fer to have the transformation wrought away from home, trusting that such a trifling chunge as having the hair dyed from copper color to black will be laid, not to the hair specialist, but to the change of climate and scenery. The very atmosphere of New York life, Its showlness and its frothlnoss, mako women place a false estimate on tho value of beauty and appearance. The average New York woman is a monomaniac on the subject of being well groomed. A woman engaged ln business or art pursuits, making perhaps per-haps 325 a week, will cheerfully pay one-fifth of this sum to the proprietor of a beauts' shop. She lays it aside as a weekly tax. This amount paid regularly to the same beauty parlor will Insure her the following attentions: Her hands mnnl-cured mnnl-cured twice a week, hc-r hair shampooed once Oj week and dressed dally, and one facial massage. Thetxi rates are secured only by special arrangement, and the beauty doctor, like the dentist, has a sliding scale of prices. He has a shrewd and not unkindly way of charging his regular customer ln proportion to her possessions. A woman who goes to the shop will pay 50 or 75 cents to have her lianas manicured. If she has a house-to-house manicurist yhe will pay from ?1 to 52, according to the standing of the shop which she patronizes, and she will tip the girl ln addition. Her hands are done once a day, usually before she arises in the morning or directly after she has her chocolate. The Hairdresser's Golden Harvest. The prices charged by hairdressers arc also variable, but it is seldom that a first-class hairdresser will build a colf-furo colf-furo for a ball under $5. t Three dollars an hour Is the minimum price for a good masseur. A combination of electrical treatment and facial jnassage given at homo will cost 55 an hour; and during the social season the woman who begins to note the footmarks of time on her face will have this done once a day. Two dollars and a half is tho price of scalp massage, and the woman who fears her hair Is coming out, or who notes that It Is lacking ln luster, will endure this treatment and the price thereof for another an-other hour. Every beauty seeking woman has her fad ln the way of baths Turkish, Russian, Rus-sian, electrical, sun or anatomical scrub. The last named Includes a species of massaging on scientific principles and Is extremely expensive. The figures given above Bhow merely what Is paid for keeping the Hkln ln good condition. It does not Include artificial ar-tificial aids. A woman will endeavor to rtot at night with her face clutched In a complexion mask, which is to the old-fashioned old-fashioned curling pins what the instruments instru-ments of the Inquisition were to the tickling of a 11 y. She will Insist that she can sleep in this mask, and pay a hundred dollars for the privilege of doing do-ing it. However, an up-to-date woman would rather sacrifice some of the daytime day-time hours to masseurs and complexion specialists, and she Is perfectly willing to pay 200 francs, or 540, for a jol o( rouge smaller than a napkin ring, so carefully prepared that It furnishes a perfect and infallible coloring for the cheeky. The Trnuhlpt: nf flm Wnm m, "With Dyed Hnir. ' The woman who once bleaches or dyes her hair pays perpetual tribute to the hairdresser For ?20 she can have her hair bleached at an ordinary shop, or she can go to Paris and pay ten times as much. It will cost her $2 a week at the New York shop to have the hair "touched up" after it has been bleached. The next year the fad for gold or copper-colored locks may pass, as it has this season, and then she will have It dyed black, as women are having It done today. She can have thl9 done at a cheap shop for $15, at a first-class shop for 550. If she has It dono properly the process will require six hours, and ten times that number of dollars, be-cnuso be-cnuso a first-class hairdresser considers 510 a not exorbitant tip, and the woman is at tho mercy of the dyer. The hair is first washed, then thoroughly thor-oughly dried, and a mordant or fixer is rubbed In. This also must dry before the dye Is applied. Then come repeated rinsings and another careful drying before be-fore the hair can be dressed. If It comes out of the process a good lustrous tint, well and good but It, Is a gamble every time. Tho best of djrers cannot tell how the human hair will act, and many a time after a six hours' trial the hair turns a bad color, and" the whole operation opera-tion must be repeated. Even after a skillful dyeing the patient must visit a hair specialist at least once a week and have the roots touched up at a price varying- from 51 to 55. Straightening1 tho Poatures. Dcrmatologlcal surgery has advanced under the Influence of woman's pursuit of beauty until It has become one of the money-making institutions of city life. Projecting or lll-shapen ears, hare lip, thick and protruding lips, humped, fiat or crooked noses, all can be reduced to normal lines; and facial blemishes, such as freckles, moth patches, scars, birthmarks, birth-marks, -smallpox pits, moles, superfiu-ous superfiu-ous hair, liver spots and eruptions will yield to the right sort of treatment and the mighty dollar. No scale of prices for these operations can bo quoted. The specialist gauges his price by the financial finan-cial rating of his patient. An operation may cost 5E0 or $500, according to the will of the operator. Dimples are Inserted by surgical methods, and a double chin Is removed by one of two ways. The chin Is laid open and the surplus tissue is removed, after which the skin Is sewed together, and by modern methods of surgery all traces of the stitches are removed. By the use of anesthetics or cocaine, this Is practically a painless operation, but it la less effective than tho newer method of Irritating the skin of the faco and chin by some secret process which draws the superfluous abundance of flesh away from the chin, and distributes it evenly over the rest of the face. Skinning tho Pace for Complexion. Women will flinch at the thought of a visit to the dentist, or make much ado over some trifling cut or bum on the hand, but they will cheerfully submit to the shocking and painful process known as facial skinning. In this operation the entire upper layer lay-er of the 9kln of the face and neck is eaten off by acids, and a new layer Is grown with what Is promised to bo the first flush of youth. It Is generally known that the "Jersey Lily," Mrs. Lang try, undergoes this operation as often as once in three years, and to this she owes her much-vaunted "English complexion." But it is not generally known that she pays 55000 to a French specialist every time she undergoes this operation. Nor Is she alone when undergoing the treatment. At the same sanitarium ln Paris are many other women, Americans in tho majority, who are willing to take chances with their lives to acquire a "baby" complexion. The operation represents rep-resents complete Isolation for two weeks, during which timo tho patient should neither speak nor laugh, because any facial expression, or grimace, or active ac-tive use of the muscles of the face, breaks tho delicately new-formed skin and undoes the work of the specialist. It must not be thought that tho ao-tress ao-tress is the main support of the beauty specialist. The actress of the hour 1b too busy a woman to pursue beauty as patiently as does her lay sister. It is the society woman, the millionaire's wife, and many a foolish woman who cannot afford the luxury, who are the main support of beuuty shops. How the Thin Woman. Wrecks Her Health. Education and scienco have done much to open the eyes of women regarding re-garding tho care of her body and her health, hut they have not cured her of many follies. She still eata arsenic for her complexion, still petrifies her eyes by the use of belladonna, still takes anti-fats to reduce her weight, and swathes her body ln rubber bands for the same purpose. The thin woman does tho most dangerous dan-gerous thing of all when she submits to parafflne lnjootlonc with tho hope .of ta-king ta-king on flesh. The parafflne Is Injected j under the skin, much as morphine or any other narcotic, with the expectation that the blood will absorb it and make j flesh. What tho blood: generally does ; absorb Is poison in its worst form, and the woman's health is wrecked for life. But many a woman will take any i 1 chances to gain beauty. She will even i allow a facial surgeon to lay open the ' skin on that most delicate point, the I temple, cut out a V-shaped piece and ' Join the skin; so that her cheeks, which have grown flabby, will be raised or drawn up to rc-sumo the old rounded contour. The most striking evidence of the 1 statement that many woman will pay any price, oven that of heulth, Is shown In the rushing business done by a New York sanitarium whose specialty Is , undoing the mischief wrought by Irro- ' sponsible, so-called beauty doctors. Hero , come women with ruined digestions, dis- ' figuring eruptions, with blood poison in its most virulent form all the result of j a profitless, foolhnrdly chase, after |
