The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-07-16
Poisonous Toilet Articles.

COld leau may become injurious to
life in more ways than in parabola
from 2 gun-barrel, and there is little
doubt that its victims in peace are pref
ty nearly Us numerous as in war. 1t is
q subtle and stubborn enemy; can effect
an entrance into the human system in
many ways without leaving mark to
indicate its passage, and when it thus
insidiously attacks its victims it can not
be removed with surgical instruments.
The injurious effects Of fresh paint are
due to the lead out of which they are
mixed, and painters collie is disorder
caused by taking the minute particles of
metal into the lungs and through the
pores. Ladies may escape its ambushes
of this kind, but they are likely to give
it. all the opportunity it desires in other
ways. For instance, hair dyes are al
legged to contain varying amounts of
lead. These colorless preparations,
which, the purchaser believes, can re.
store the original lints to the hair, hold
lead in solution, while the cosmetics
for the face which go by the high-sound.
ing names of enamel, ,and 50 forth,
yield the analytic chemist larger or
smaller precipitates of white and red led
when properly treated. The death of o
young lady Of Buffalo from lead poison
ing through the foolish habit of resorting
to artificial complexion serves to direct
public attention to the subject again.
lnsthis case the lesden particles were
absorbed by the pores Of the skin into
the system, For eight years the unhap.
py girl had been an invalid. and at
length death relieved her. Bismuth,
anthony, and other minerals are made
use Of more or less literally, and all
bring about their natural results sooner
or later. -...
Even when the cosmetic is no more
deleterious in composition than rice
wafer or chalk, it is injurious, since it
chokes the pores of the face. Effete
matter is carried from the skin through
the system to an extent that would sur
prise anybody who had never paid al.
,ention to the subject, and 80 necessary
is this dermal excretion that the loss Of
one-third Of the breathing surface of the
body is sufficient to produce death. But
the mere fact that the application OF
cosmetics is attended with danger, will
not prevent their use by ladies. Phys.
zeal debility, torture, and far more seri-
GUS complications resulting from their
use, have not prevented the wearing Of
flight shoe, and corscts, and never will,
and health and comfort are only too
gladly sacrificed for beauty and the ad-
miration of the foolish. 1t is curioas TO
note how local is the fashion Of using
cosmetics. Compared with the mode
of a century ago, when every woman
had recourse to the cosmetic pad, the
absence of artificial color is extraordi-
nary. Few ladies of good taste in New
York and Brovxlyn will consent 10 apply
a false complexion. In Philadelphia,
however, it is considered quite proper
thing to paint, and even young AMI
] pretty girls are to. be met whose lovely
natural skins are deeply overlaid with
the most, ingenious coats of coloring
1 matter. 1t may be that Philadelphia
prefers to be a law to itself, but that the
descendants of the s'drab.colored" Qua.
| kers should make = fashion of falsity, is
/ rather singular, to say the least. La
dies, however, who use cosmetics with
| the idea that gentlemen are either de-
ceived BY them or pleased, labor under
an extraordinary mistake.-New York
J Tines.