The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-09
M E WY O r TX I S vi S.
From Our OlVn Correspondent
NEW YORK. April 8, 1870.
CuticuIar Poison,

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NEW YORK, April 9, 1870.
CuticuIar Poison.
DR.. Chandler Chemist to the Board of Health,
has just completed some experiments upon sub
stances used for dyeing the hair and whitening
the complexion. 1t is a sort of therapeutic
diletdntiSn, to engage his attention; but just at
present owing, let us hope, to the exceptional
health of the city-the board has nothing more
important to absorb its attention. The expert
ments of DR.. Chandler prove precisely what
has been proved over and over again, TO witt
that the foundation of almost all dyes for the
hair is lead and that people who use those con-
tanning it do so at great risk. When you see hair
which the age and habits of the owner inform
you ought by right to be grey, you may feel
pretty certain that she is slow suicide. So
likewise with the complexion. DR.. Chandler
has proved, and announces it as a new and start
ling fact never before made public, that lead is
one of the principal ingredients of articles
used for beautifying the complexion, particu-
larly for whitening it. An interesting pallor is
Synonymous with palsy and paralysis. The
'Ieaden" hue of death may be said to be truth
fully descriptive in a double sense. If the
doctors are ito be believed, lead in cosmetics
brings down as many victims in proportion as
bullets do on the field. The feminine toilet
table conceals the unGertakers'; the bloom of
youth trembles in the neighborhood of the
gloom of death, and eDldils and lotions only
provide masks underneath which poison eats it's
way.
1t seems that, after all, we are not to have
our Sunday beer. Lager and liquor-seling
generally, upon the Sabbath are not to be for
us Already saloons and restaurants had COM
menced to open their bars but the attitude of
a11I,
suddenly closed fan.
The "Herald'' and Miss Thompson,
The Herald has been publishing scandal about
Miss lydia Thompson one day, and contradict
ing 1t in cards from Miss Lydia Thompson the
next Between rehearsals, bitter reviews from
some newspapers, dead silence from others, and
an enormous newspaper correspondence press
ing upon her, this young lady has quite enough
to do and to bear. The wonder is that she does
and bears it so well.
Managerial "Reminiscences.
There is a certain manager known to New
York as not altogether disconnected with the
success of Italian opera in this city, who, al
though in the possession of plenty of means,
yet allows a small debt, contracted under pecu-
liar circumstances, to remain unpaid. The
circumstances are so peculiar as to warrant the
telling Some years ago this manager was at
lacked uy inc HeFdtU IN n very NIulohI MANNER
but wiGh an intensity for which the newspaper
thought it had abundant cause. At any rate il
pitched into him right and left and, as the
saying is did not leave him a leg to stand upon
The poor man was at his wits end. He did no
know what to do. His season had been success
full go far, and promised to continue so, bu
what of that so long as his enemy had so splen
did an opportunity to blackguard him, while HI
bad none nj replying? Neither money nor an
plause nor the eulogy of other journals coul'