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Electricity and Wrinkles.

The world progresses in these latter days at a great rate, There are men living who remember when the only noise steam made jn the world was with the lid of the tea-kettle —when there were no railways, no steamboats, and no steam-made biscuits. But the age of steam itself-the most wonderful age, in many respects, the world has yet seen—seems to be destined, like the stone and bronze ages of lan earlier time, to pass away. As iron is being superseded by steel, and men’s rule by women’s (we shall soon, according to Sir Julius Vogel and Sir John Hall, have female Parliaments and lady Premiers), so is steam being superseded by electricity. And as steam did what horses and bullocks could not do, we may be quite sure that electricity will, in its turn, take the puffing conceit out of steam. It is doing so already. Whoever beard of the agency invented, at least brqkeq in to harness, by the ingenious Scotsman, tor smoothing away wrinkles from women's faces and making them beautiful for ever ? This is a touch beyond the reach of steam, Madame Baohel pretended to do it, but that illustrious woman either deceived herself or her patients (suffering from the disease of advancing years), or both. The poor creature got into “quod," while her dupes remained aa unbeautiful aa ever. But elec" trioity is not likely to prove a deceiver. By a certain process called electrolysis the little farrows are filled up under the skin, with healthy natural tissue, and youth, with its concomitant beauty, restored. This is surely the very triumph of human ingenuity—to make old women young again, or prevent (electrolysis is equal to both miracles) young women from ever becoming old. Will the young bucks of the electric era fall ih love with the rejuvenated old maids and widows 1 Incalculable are the possible developments of modern science. What with thia electrolysis and M. Brown-Sequard’s new eiean'r vita., the antediluvian age itself might be restored, with its Mabalateels and Jareds and Methtltatehs, who lived their eight or. nine hundred years, and “ feeggt tons and daughters. ” Sqch a ■estoration might, however, ba awkward, if Malthus's theory is even approximately true. The overflow of mankind is alarming enough as it is, though we could still do with a slight addition tp our New Zealand' population.— Otago Daily Times,

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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 390, 13 December 1889, Page 3

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Electricity and Wrinkles. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 390, 13 December 1889, Page 3

Electricity and Wrinkles. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 390, 13 December 1889, Page 3

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