Artificial Dimples.

Otago Witness, Volume 14, Issue 2648, 14 December 1904, Page 66

Artificial Dimples.

In London cutting dimples is said to be n phase of the beauty doctoring resorted lo by the smart set. To quote the London N eW s: — "Dimple cutters in the West End bwe been doing a big business during the present season."' Very few girls in society Iniv3 the dimples that make them bewitch- . ing when they laugh. Dimples so often are A the sort that approach wrinkles — little lengthwise folds that threaten to become ugly lines as thy. face ages. Miss Louise Vanderhoef, the young golf champion,, and a chum of Mrs Colby M. Chester, jun. (nee Moore), is one of the veryfew maidens whose dimples are of the deeply indented sort. She looks much like Miss, Nathalie Knowlton, of Tuxedo, and her dimples come and go as she laughs, readily and merrily. Everyone noticed Miss Vanderhoef when she appeared as a bridesmaid this spring — first at the wedding of Miss Moore to Mr Chester. This was chiefly, on account of the dimples and her laughter-loving ways. To return to the dimples made by surgery, however ; they seem altogether possible to the writer, who personally saw a young woman "before and after" hea nose had been changed. She was a sweet, good girl, and lot one with any fanatic devotion to her personal appearance or apparel ; but she often said, bitterly : "My nose spoils my whole life." And there was truth in the statement, for she and poor Cyrano, of Rostand's drama, might have wept together over a grief in common. The nose of the poor maiden, let it be explained, had "two hooks to it" — no more elegant phrase could exactly describe it. The poinc touched her upper lip. She did not take to drink because she was so ugly, as did tha woman in a magazine story just published, hut she did take to nursing, not making it a fad soon relinquished, as other society girls often do, but a profession. She succeeded as one would have expected, judging from the earnestness and tenderness of her big brown eyes. But the double hooked nose still made her sad. Finally her experience in surgical operations gave her faith in beauty doctors, and it resulted in consultation with one of the best known men in New York. In order to make the operation more successful, she was under the influence of no ansesthetic, but bore the pain bravely, and aided in handling the proper instruments, as the doctors proceeded. Her nose now is a very nice nose, with a hardly perceptible scar, and for the sake of anyone afflicted with too much nose both the name of the girl and the doctor will be given. — Brooklyn Life.