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Show Why Beauty Is Deeper Than Skin; Ills Told by Wrinkles THE lines and seams which women have on their faces, commonly called wrinkles, wrin-kles, have been discovered to be due to tumors in distant parts of the body, to sickness, sick-ness, to disorders of the glands. The theory that age and sorrow, poverty and privations cause wrinkles was exploded when Miss Q. began to have them. She was happy and contented and comfortably fixed with the world's goods. I One day an eminent women's surgeon connected with Dr. Howard A. Kelly's hospital hos-pital saw Miss Q. and said : "You have a tumor. I can tell it by the lines and grooves on your face." Miss Q., who is a sensible, smiling person per-son generally, now laughed and with twinkling twin-kling eyes said : "If you can convince me that I have one I'll let you operate on me at once." Dr. B. brought out several old volumes of medical lore of the vintage of a period when doctors made a diagnosis by reading the faces of their patients. There is an "apoplectic type" of face. A face "full of spleen," a "bilious fades," a "consumptive kind," and so on. Doctors of bygone days had no scientific instruments to help them make accurate judgments, so they became adept at reading "minds," as character char-acter and disease reading of the face is still called. The books Dr. B. brought showed a number of women with cysts and tumors of the abdomen. Startling, indeed, was the resemblance of these women to Miss Q. The operation was done and a thirty-pound thirty-pound cyst was removed. .Withina month afterward Miss Q.'s wrinkled, rough-lined face began to become smooth. Now, some months afterward, her complexion com-plexion is as sweet and velvety as a -16-year-old girl's. There is not a seam or crease in her cheeks, throat or chin. This and other discoveries by surgeons show that beauty is far more than skin deep. Itlso proves that you cannot tell a woman's age by her wrinkles. A young girl who had several furrows In her forehead and at the corners of her mouth, Miss Clara D., was constantly admonished ad-monished by her parents and friends to "stop frowning." Unfortunately for her, she could not "stop frowning." The myriad of little lines around her eyes, "crow's feet" and the furrows fur-rows in her brow, were there beoause her parents had never had her eyes examined and she went to school and college in a city where the school doctors were considered a needless expense. By accident one day a noted oculist saw her and told her that she was wrinkled and aged before her time because she was too vain to wear glasses, the very thing which would help her beauty. Sure enough, when she acquired the necessary nec-essary "first aids to the eyesight" the strained muscles of her face gradually relaxed, re-laxed, and after some seasons the old, wrinkled skin was replaced with even, smooth cuticle. Often after operations for goiters and enlarged thyroid glands the tired, worn and weather-beaten roughness of the owner's skin changes to the evenness of a Gretna Green. It has been known to the purveyors of the healing art that overactivity of some of the "ductless glands," such as the thyroid and adrenals, or tumors and diseases of those glands, cause the skin to shrink, to become be-come rumpled up, to fall into folds and creases, In this same set of facts lies an open secret, which has led to the discovery of a way to be rid of Wrinkles other than the often-used and hopeless method of rubbing and massaging the creases with almond oil, oil of spermaceti, sweet oil, cold cream and other cosmetics. It is reasonable to conclude con-clude that if tumors of the tiyroid, of the adrenals and of other glands cause wrinkles, It may be that the opposite might smooth the skin. That is exactly what has happened. American chemists have applied this knowledge knowl-edge in making anti-thyroid, auti-adren and autl-pitultary serums' and substances, which are now being tried out as internal remedies to cure wrinkles and furrows. Some success has been met by this means, but the anti-serums, such as thy-roldin thy-roldin and anti-thyroid, are difficult to ob- tain. The supply is not equal to the experimental experi-mental demand, so all those whose wrinkles are due to sour feelings and bitter thoughts will, for the time being, do better to mend their moods and not think evil of their neighbors, while awaiting a more abundant supply of these new remedies. |