Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-09-14

come mere 10 nave the OlOWS OF the cow
ards who pass for fine gentlemen hidden.
They would sooner he torn to pieces,
than own up. | never knew of but one
lady that did own up. She was a. bride,
only been married three weeks, and
lived on Madison avenue. One day her
husband got into rage and threw his
boot at her. II struck her on the fore
head. leaving terrible mark; but after
the shock was over all the poor thing
thought of was to keep it from her par.
ents, for she had married against their
wishes"
"What ether dis6gurements are you
called on TO concealP"
"Moles and birthmarks. You SEE q
lady may have very beautiful, white
neck. or snowy, well-molded arms, but
be unable to wear party dress on ac-
count of one or more OF these blemishes.
l have regular customers, who, when
ever they go TO a bail, send for me TO
paint over these marks. And 1t Is
singular the shapes they are in. There
is one belle in this city who has on her
right arm regular cross and crown,
bright red in color, and large enough TO
be seen across the room. Another
young lady, who has the shoulders OF
model. has upon one the initials q. l.,
in red spots about the size OF currants.
Still another lady has on her forearm
perfect miniature ladder, though. OF
course, the majority Of these marks as
sumo no distinct form
You must sometimes have ladies
who have really suffered from an acci-
dent9"
"Oh, yes. There was one young lady
here last week whose face was covered
with crimson spots big rs silver quar-
ters. Sac was engaged TO be married,
and TO please her betrothed had taken a
course Of lessons in cooking from Miss
Corson. The day before the wedding
she invited him TO little supper of her
own preparing, intending TO give him n
pleasant premonition of bliss 10 come,
in the shape of good housekeeping.
Her chef d'ouvre was dish Of soft-shell
crabs, and. alas, rs she was in the act
OF frying them, the hot grease sputtered
up and burnt her face badly in half
dozen places. 1t was too late to defer
the wedding, and accordingly she had
to have her face done entirely over for
the ceremony, but it turned out such an
Improvement on her natural complexion
that do not think she minded it
much"
Before leaving asked from what class
of men he drew the largest number OF
blackened-eye customers.
From sporting men and the wealthy
business men. The latter class. OF
course. would be injured by being seen
with such disfgurements. There is one
gentleman on Wall street who has
hardly missed visit to me this year.
Every Saturday nigh. he starts of on
tare that lasts him until Monday morn
inr. when. bright and early, he comes
here 10 get fixed up before going TO
business. One funny case / had last
winter was when two gentlemen, con-
spicuous in the management of the
Madison Square garden, got into
quarrel, in the course of which one had
both eyes blacked; the other only one.
He of the two black eyes came here to
be painted over, and told me If would
refuse to fix the other mans eye he
would pay me three times what it was
worth. This promised not to do, and
in consequence the worst punished OF
the two men went round boasting how
he had come out ahead, as no one could
detect his bruises. The ridicule fell on
he of single and apparently blackened
orb"