| Show REMARKS OF A PHYSICIAN A cure for chapped lips and a study ot of tile lie cause or of wrinkles WriD kics As soon as tho the cold winds begin to blow I 1 remarked a physician 1 I am overrun with patients suffering from chapped lips the tha trouble generally manifests itself in one wide cut in tile tho Il middle liddle of tho the lip I 1 used to treat such kiich things ns as a laughing matter and prescribe some emollient such as glycerine for instance but I 1 soon found that such euch trea treatment amen t was only a temporary remedy tor for after partially healing tho the cut would open lit at tile slightest exertion of ito lips the mere act of biting anything hard laughing or yawning would malco make tho the unfortunate fortunato un howl with pain if tho the patient wa addle addicted ted to the use of tobacco tho the chances were that he would have a bad lip all through 11 the winter in researches for a permanent cure I 1 ran act across an air old tramp printer who had rubbed robbed a against the rough side of tho the world all his life arid and for whom every season had been a cold day he told mo me that if I 1 investigated the matter I 1 would find that the people addicted to chapped lips were in the habit of at touching them with their tongues A sure cure said he be is to keep your tongue in your I 1 have since followed his suggestion in my practice and never knew it to fail the rough skin of the tongue scratches ratchet sc the lips 1161 and when they have once become chapion cl the least contact is enough to keep the cut ape apen n alf 1 I have recently been making a study of wrinkles continued tho the doctor it is CU customary to say that wrinkles come from worrying but the truth is that most of them come from laughing this is rather paradoxical dox ical I 1 must admit but I 1 have been on onty Y convinced after the roost most careful investigation to know how to laugh is just asim as to know when to do it if you laugh lau alf h with tho the sides oi of your face tile tho skin shin ti mil work loose in time and wrinkles will conn orm in exact accordance with what kind of i a laugh you have alb man who al always wears a smirk will ivill have a series of semi cir ular wrinkles covering his cheeks when a gambler ambler iNho w ho has been accustomed to suppressing his feelings laughs a deep line forms on oil each side of his nose arid and runs to the up upper per corrier corner of his mouth month in ill time th this is line intends to the chin and assumes the shape of i half moon A cadaverous person with a skin Ls is very apt to have two broadly marked arl wrinkles bikles one running up from the jaw and the hie other under mider the tha eye these meet fit at ri right lit angles at tho the c cheekbone bee lb 0 no a and n d I 1 look 00 as kough though they formed a knot at the apex tho the scholars wrinkles form on his brow while the scheming politicians come around hiss his yes where they look tor for all the world like tho the spokes of a wheel some of the fat women who bet on horses have the most astonishing crop aop of wrinkles I 1 over ever saw outside of an elo one in particular was so strongly marked that whenever she smiled over a big win nin n in the wrinkles in each cheek would form hein selves in tile shape of a perfect pretzel yew sow york evening sun |
