The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-05-09
"BEAUTIFUL FOREVER"
Trial and Conviction in London of Mad
anne Rachel. the ..Beautiner OF LadIes.''


anne Rachel. the ''Beautiner OF LadIes-''
Madame Rachel, the London enameler,
has come to grief with a sentence of five
years imprisonment for obtaining money
under false pretenses. Mrs. Pearse, a
daughter of the tenor Marie, was the
plaintiff in the case, and concerning the
affair the London Week says:
"The career of Madame Rachel as a
beautifer of her sex may now be con-
sidered closed. How many beWitching
specimens of her skill there may be
moving about in the highest circles of
society we have no means of deciding.
We shall be better able to tell when the
enamel peels off, and nature is allowed
to stand forth unadorned. It would be
rather awkward if the coating cracked or
came off in patches, for in that case some of
our most beautiful women would present
the appearance of fine old china, interest
ing as curiesities, but deprived OF any
attraction to the male human being. 1t
is clear that Madame Rachel will not be
in a position to repair her work. She
has fallen 8 martyr to the useful art
Mrs. Pearse, when she first went to
Madame Rachel, could not quite make
out why it was that a woman who had
the power of confering beauty on others
is on the same principal that sellers of
hair restorers are always bald Mrs.
Pearse herself was only twenty-three, and
very good looking, and one would have
supposed that she could well have afforded
to leave her natural charms to do their
destructive work on the helpless male
animal. But there are two things of
which a woman can never have enough
beauty and diamonds. So Mrs Pearse de-
termined to be enamelIed all over. We
must here mention that it is not our
fault if anything in this article frightens
nervous persons of either sex--we are
merely following the law report. To be
euamelled all over is a long job, and the
beautifer agreed to take S200 for it,
which seems to US very cheap. To be
made like the rose from top to toe, and
warranted to last beautiful till you are
hundred, is surely a very great triumph
of skill. We should have thought it
would cost nearly as much merely to
varnish a full-sized body. Mrs. Pearse
began to use the washes which were given
her until her face broke out in a rash.
We have never seen a woman who looked
at her best in this condition, and poor
Mrs Pearse wss in great trouble. Her
| husband could not fail to notice her
| found difficult TO extract from
husbands the requisite number Of
| checks when the female nose and face is
| covered with pimples Mrs. Pesrse went
round to Madame Rachel's, and, as she
had no money, she took some jewels with
| her. and deposited them with the old
woman. She was naturally much en-
| couraged to learn that the beautifer had
at that moment jewels in her possession
belonging to a well>known countess
worth at least $4,000. At last a bath
was proposed. By this time Mrs. Pearse
would evidently have done anything to
get rid of her pimples. So the bath was
dragged out from under the table, and
Mrs Pearse jumped in, being,as she says,
under apprehensions as to her skim It
must have been rather dirty bath, for
the old witch who presided over the Ger.
emony threw in some mysterious powder
and other stuff which she ssid came from
the east.
"When next we are permitted TO see
Mrs Pesrse, it is at ball In Shropshire
where she admits that her friends told
her she was quite lovely The infer.
ence is that the bath did her good. But
still she was not satisfied, and she wrote
to her kind old friend, Il hope you viii
be able to finish me on Thursday.
should so much like to be made besuti
full for ever BET re I leave She alsC
wrote that che had been 'seedy,' which
perhaps may be another variety of PIN
Piles, and asked for some pink powder anc
red powder. Little do we think, wher
We admire lovely women, how much car,
and time and skill have been expended
on the effort to produce the brilIian
effect we witness. The bloom which VI
take TO be that of innocent youth may
after all, be only some Of old Rachel
powder"