Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-05-11
.%'BEAUTIFUL FOREVER"
Trial and Conviction Ia London OF Mad
a,ne Rachel. e"BeautIier of

Madame Rachel, the LsndCn enameler,
has come to grief with Il sentence of five
years. imprisonment for obtaining money
under false p%retenses. Mrs. Pearse, a
daughter Of the tenor Mario, was the
plaintiff in the case, and concerning the
affair the London Week says:
"The career of Madame Rachel rs q
beautifer of her sex may now be con-
sidered closed. How many bewitcIiug
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 of, and nature is allowed
to stand forth unad6rned. 1t would be
rather awkward il the coating cracked or
came ofin patches, form hat case some OF
our most beautiful women would present
the appearance of fine old china, interest
ing as curiosities, but deprived OF any
attraction to the male human being. It
is clear that Madame Rachel will not be
in a position to repair her work, She
has fallen a martyr to the useful art.
Mrs. Pearse, when she first went to
Madame Rachel, could not quite make
out why ii was that 4 woman who had
the power of confering beauty on others
should be SO ugly herself. This, no doubt,
is on the same principal that sellers of
hair restOrers are always bald. Mrs.
Pearse herselfwas only twenty-three, and
very good looking, and one would ba Q
supposed that she could we'll 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 car never have enough
beauty and diamonds. So Mrs, Pearse de.
termined to be enamelled 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
beautiier agreed to take goo for it,
which seems TO US very cheap 70 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 wholooked
at her best in this condition, and o o
Mrs. Pearse was in great trouble. Her
husband could not fail to notice her
altered visage, and sometimes it is
found difficult to extract from
husbands the requisite number Of
checks when the female nose and face is
covered with pimples. Mrs. Pearse 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 w~ell>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 a~pprehensions as To her skim IT
must have been rather a dirty bath, for
the old witch who presided over the Ger.
emony threw in some mysterious powder
and other stuff which she said came from
the east.
when next we are permitted TO see
Mrs. Pearse, 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 will
be able to finish me on Thursday. I
should SO much like to be made beauti.
full for eve before I leave She also
wrote that she had been 'seedy,' which
perhaps may be another variety of MIN.
pies, and asked for some pink powder and
led powder. Little 90 We think, when
we.admire lovely women, how much care
and time and skill have been expended
on the effort to produce the brilliant
effect we witness. The bloom which we
take to be that Of innocent youth may,
after all, be only some Of old Rachels
powder"