The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-04-24

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A lady in Louisville paid seventy I've
dollars, We are told, for having her face
enameled for the ball given at the Calf
House to the Grand Duke Alexis. The
enamanel warranted to last three dars
and 80 it did The lady was taken M
upon her return home from the bali
her face became greatly swollen, the
most actute pain succeeded, and IL
Was only by the employment of the
best medical skill that her life wa.
saved. This statement we have frop
an undoubted source.
But the case of this lady is not An
bad as that Of another Louisville lsdy
who became enamored of the fashion
of enameling the face. She visited an
other city far to the eastward some five
months ago for the sole purpose of hav-
ing her face enameled according to the
latest Partisan mode. She had heard
that a noted Partisan was engaged in
the enameling business at the city in
question, and to him she went upon
her arrival. For the sum of FIVE hun.
dred dollars lie agreed to enamel her
face 80 scientifically that the enamel
would remain unchanged for three
years and year or two longer If extra
care was taken in washing the face &C.
cording to his prescribed method. The
devotee of fashion concluded the bar.
gain and paid three hundred dollars Of
the sum named, the remained to be
paid in yearly installments divided in.
to three years. The lady received the
enamel and returned to her home in
this city. Since her arrival home she
has disappeared from society. There
was so much poison in the enamel that
it's effects were almost Immediately de-
veloped in the almost total paralysis
of the facial nerves, and what was
once truly beautiful face is to- day a
distorted, disfigured and ulcerous one.
The iady's beauty has disappeared for
ever, and if her physicians succeeded
in saving her life they have accom-
plished more than they had a right to
hope for. Her eyes are terribly in
famed and dis6gured, and the sight Of
them fast failing.-[Exchange. 81
A MOTHER VOLUNTARILY SUR
RENDERS HER SoN.-Three years
ago, w. F. Hewitt was sentenced
to five years. Imprisonment in the
Tennessee penltentiary for robbing
w. s. Weakley's store in Edge6eid
Of a large amount of goods. His
health was bad, and he was put at
light work in the shoe shop of the
prison. After serving two years
and five months, he and another
convict named Smith succeeded in
scaling the walls at night and max
ing their escape. They both came
to Louisville, where Smith was re-
captured. Hew lit subsequently
committed a theft in Louisville and
was sent to the Kentucky peniten.
tory. He was discharged some
time ago. Helpless from compli-
cation of diseases, without friends
or money, and convinced that he
would be hunted up and taken back
to the Tennessee penitentiary to
serve out his time there he chose
the desperate attempt of surrender.
ing himself His mother, who re.
sides in Edgefield, was startled last
Monday night by his entering the
house and announcing that he was
ready to 60 back to prison, if the
authorities SO decided. He pre-
sented a most distressing spectacle,
and bis mother determined to make
an effort to secure his pardon. She
sent a friend to Governor Brown
or Tuesday to make an earnest ap.
peal in behalf of her son, but the
case was one into which considers.
tions of executive cleinency could
not enter. AS Hewitt was an es.
capped convict, pardon was of course
out of the question, and to this the
Governor intlmated, kindly, bat
firmly. The mother had high
sense of duty in the matter, and
requested that no officer of the law
should be sent after her son, pledg.
that the State should be put to no
expense on his account, and that he
should be delivered at the prison
Wednesday. She has kept her
word. On Wednesday morning
she called at the capitol in her car.
rage. the son sitting by her side
After last appeal to tho Govern
or which could be answered only
as before-she drove. broken-heart-