CRAZE FOR BEAUTY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14931, 2 March 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

CRAZE FOR BEAUTY.

A mad craving to become beautiful at all costs has resulted in a Berlin noblewoman, tho wife of an officer, haying to bo taken to an insane asylum, and a woman who induced her to pay £3000 for a "sure road to beauty" has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for fraud. A middle-aged Silesian woman recently opened a "beauty parlour" at Munich. Hearing of the Berlin noblewoman's passion to correct tho deficiencies of which she was a victim at the hands of Mother Nature, tho proprietress of tho " beauty parlour" sent word that she had a friend, a masseuse, who could administer " cosmetic treatment" which .was guaranteed to convert the homeliest features into a pretty face, and the most impossible of figures into a form over which sculptors would rave. - ; "

The owner of the "beanty parlour" received £3000 in advance, as agreed upon, and proceeded to administer the " treat-' ment." but before it had proceeded very far the fraud came to light in time for the police to secure possession of the bulk of tho money. The only effect of the treatment (says the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail) was to mar the noblewoman's face with a distressing rash, while her figure retains its unattractive lines. Her relatives . found it desirable to» have the unhappy woman placed in an-asylum* \r-.ir;