Our Paris correspondent's interesting letter, which appears on another page of this issue, i ing a deseripti tion by which a Paris doctor is rejuvenating faces by "taking a tuck" in the skin is all the more interesting because of the human desire for personal beauty which is shown thus to be capable of going through almost anything to achieve its own ends. That the operation is a success is evidented by the story of a well known actress who met a woman at home and spoke to her as the daughter of a theatrical friend. To her utter astonishment she was. informed that the lady she was talking to was not her friend's daughter but the friend herself. She had had her face tightened up. Apparently this method of defying Time is by no means permanent. At the outside its effects last for about ten years, but only as long as that if the. patient refrains from crying and laughter, and indeed any facial expression of emotion. In the circuthstanees it is to be questioned whether the benefits of attention from the beauty specialist in question are worth what has to be sacrificed, for it would certainly seem that any woman, deprived of the possibility of having a "good ery" when she needs one, suffers unduly in the cause of beauty.
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