Show MASSAGE FOR BLACK EYES better than raint paint and beefsteak for ob ute iterating rating evidence of encounter those who make a business of obliterating aerating evidence of encounters in the shape of black eyes by paintings painting the damaged optics no longer enjoy a monopoly of such business this I 1 was told by a pugilistic acquaintance whose esperi experience ence ep entitles titles him to be regarded as an authority on the subject says a writer in the new york herald I 1 massage treatment of the region affected he said will beat paint and raw beefsteak all hollow but it should be applied immediately after the injury is received in order to prove thoroughly efficacious it does not require an expert to do it all that is necessary is to move the fingers rapidly and firmly over the bruised surface and to keep it up until the last vestige of discoloration has bar disappeared the explanation explanations is easy where the blow has been received the blood becomes congested it is the clots blots of blood showing through the transparent skin that produces the black effect the pressure of the fingers gradually gra duall y loosens the clotted blood which passes passe s off into the general current of circulation and fresh and properly colored blood takes its place however as a rule the professional pug does not bother himself about accelerating the he disappearance of a black eye it is a sign which proclaims the fact that its proprietor has recently filled an engagement and as such he is an object of envy to his less fortunate brethren it is the man about town whose overindulgence occasionally causes him to forget that di discretion a is the better part of valor who is apt apt to profit most by the knowledge that massage promptly applied will remove the signs i of mourning from an eye that has been in violent contact with some other f ft hows fist and thus obviate the necessity of inventing a story to account for it which however ingenious will be at by skeptical ical and incredulous acquaintances some of whom may have been there themselves |