The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-01-23
A PARTISAN sUIcIDE---Loss OF BEAUTY

The Paris correspondent of the Boston Post
thus chronicles the first noticeable suicide OF
the season:
A gay lorette, known to all the Lovelaces
Of the clubs, died by charcoal within few
Idays, in her own apartment, surrounded by
all the refined luxury which Partisan women
successfully attempt. She commenced life as
Idemoiselle in amlliner's establishment. But,
as always happens here, she was discovered
| by prowling Giovanni, or ferretted out, it
may be, by one Of the female brokers of ten
Iderness" which the city furnishes, and trans
ferred to an elegant apartment as the mistress
of some rich count baron, or ambassador.
Adapting herself at once to the habits of the
sphere in which she found herself her beauty,
her wit and elegance soon gained her posi-
ton in the demi-mode. A career of prosperi-
ty soon enabled her to crafty her newly ac-
quired tastes; and the yelvets the silks, the
furniture, &c, of which she became possessor
were the envy of the frail ones who crowded
to her soirees and enjoyed her hospitality.
All the mOutards of Paris became successfully
her bOns dn15S, and fortunes were sacrificed to
her, gifts were showered upon her, and she be-
came Ia mode while her beauty was paramount.
While at her apogee, she received once a
week, and she contracted the habit of lying in
bed the entire day previous to her reception
in order to possess the languor, the repose
which are so fascinating in pretty women.
But previous to her last soiree she had
written letters while reposing in her luxuri-
Gus bed, and the fame of the candle used in
sealidg communicated to the curtain, the lace
pillow case, and in an instant all was in flames
She shrieked for help, but before she could be
torn, from the fatal couch her injuries were
severe. The flames luckily had spared her
face, save one apparent tinge over one eye
brow. She was quickly cared for by the most
skillful physicians in Paris. L reply to her
repeated inquiries concerning her beauty, she
was assured it would remain unharmed; the
Slight wound on the face was evidently doing
well. Relieved by this assurance, she COM
posed herself to recover as soon as possible.
At the end of three weeks she was quite re-
stored. During this time she had refained
from regarding herself in the mirror, appre-
hensive ola lingering trace Of the accident on
her countenance, whose loveliness it was so
essential to her happiness to preserve.
Repeatedly she had questioned the soub-
rette in attendance concerning her fears, but
she had been quieted by the assurance that
would remain unharmed. What
was her horror upon viewing herself for the
first time after her convalesence, to discover a
long, hideous scar upon the forehead, extend
ing some way down upon her cheek, and pre-
senting frightful contrast to the whiteness of
her skin and beauty which she had previously
to her disaster, so frequently heard adulated.
A nervous crisis seized upon her, and she was
insensible for hours. Upon her recovery she
was calm and resigned, but she wept bitterly
while writing some letters, which were subse
quently discovered to be farewell addresses to
members of her family.
The moment however, the maid quilted her
for the night, she rolled little portable calori-
fer into her chamber, filled with charcoal, and
carefully securing the doors and windows to
prevent the admission of exterior air, she light
ed it. She then put on all her diamonds and
most beautiful jewels, clothed herself in her
richest robe, and placing herself placdly upon
her bed, waited the effects of the homicidal
gas, whose fumes were busily difusing them
selves in the apartment. In the morning she
was found cold, stiff, and dead! Her body,
clothed in superb attic, gittering with dia-
monds, the expired razier, and the sumptuous
appointments of the room, must have present
ed terrible scene-all occasioned by the loss
of an eyebrow, brought about by that horrible
association of material particles-bed curtains
and lighted candles.