Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-07-29

women aud that are almost universally so allur-
ing and so fatal to men. This woman was
known by her Paris theatrical experience to be
at least thirty EIGHT years of age, but
HER STYLE WAS SO STUDIED
and she was so thoroughly French actress that
she really was of no age whatever and was as Sc
duetive TO young men as to old. She was dark.
with black hair and gray eyes, neither handsome
nor even pretty, not theatrical in appea rance
but excessively stylish in the manner of lie
grand monde. Somehow in the course OF the
surgical treatment of the youay officer. who BIZ
the way was only % the suspicion of the physi-
clans were aroused. They examined the Doul-
tees with which the siren was continually dress
in" the wounds By that examination they dis
covered that To each OF the poultces az she put
them to the mutilated face and blinded eyes. she
was adding vitriol enough to utterly de-
stroy the sight even if put upon unin-
Jured eyes. From this discovery the
clcw was followed and the whole truth
brought to light. The actres; knew herself to
be nadly loved by this youth almost young
enough to be her son; but she knew also that it
was love that could not last long for age was
creeping upon her and crows feet were already
gathering insduoUsly about her eyes. She
trusted in the wonderful magnetism of her SER
pent-like physical temperament to hold him in
her power providing he could no. see the rava-
ge5 that time must now make every year in her
face. So, fend-l,ke, she had deliberately
planned to blind her lover for life: planned even
that this dreadful deed should be done at her
own door so that the victim would be carried
Into her rooms and not to his own, where
she would care for him with such devO-
ton that. finally blinded. mutlated. so
horrible to look upon that no other woman
would marry him. he would make her his wife.
The agent she had employed in this netarious
business was also lover OF hers, a man of low
position and intelligence. whose jealousy helped
him to do the deed. and who was also as COM
pletely under her spell as bird under baslisks.
The woman was thrown into prison. While
there she begged piteously for u certain hair
dye. but was refused. the suppositiOn being that
she wished to poison herself with it. Her APP
pearance upon her trial was horrible reyeia-
ton to those who had known her In her stylish
elegance and fascination. Her checks were
hollow and thin. her skin yellow and hit:eous,
with no cunning device of the toilet or arrange
ment of curtains to hide them from the
harsh day, and her hair was as white
as snow 1t was said that this spectacle
of her hair was the most distressing OF all. for
her head. always so artistically frizzed and
cGried, was seen to be only sparsely covered
where the white hair lay upon it in fiat, IN
dressed streakS. us she had not been able to add
any of her usual artificial locks, they having
preserved their raven hue, while her own had
gone back to their natural white. The officer
has never recovered his sight, although he lives
Scared and horrible. The woman was SEN
fenced to trans pGrtat!on and hard labor for life.
anu 1T ItliS very Nlblliclt tie eeGa1I actress,
broken down. wrinkied. wh;te-harcI and IN
slightly. although not more than A. tolls among
gangs of fellOwcOavicts under the distant skies
OF the southern hemisphere.
All the Partisan photographs. however are
not OF actresses. One which attracts much
attention, and causes not Il few Jokes repre-
Sents handsome. military-iOOking. white
haired and mustached gentleman driving
pony cart filled to overlooking with chill
dren. These children. seven OF them the
eldest not more than II, the youngest perhaps
years of age, all wear sailor suits and wide
brimned straw hats rolling away from their
faces. with the effect of the golden halo on
heads of FloreHtine saints. The carriage is
packed just as full as it can possibly be packed
with this young family. and the father peeps
over their heads at the spectator with an air of
conscious pride in his thriving growth of olive
branches. This father is Ferdinand de I.esseps,
aged -. whose wife. aged 35, does not apper with
her elder children, perhaps because there is no
room in the carriage for them. Nine. de Lesseps
is fashionable woman. very careful Of her figure.
and to whom such frequent maternity cannot
be the pride and joy it seems to her husband
She follows the example of the empress OF Aus
tra in corseting herself to the last point of human
endurance, and wears no undertaking OF Their than
one woven garment OF spun silk fitting to the
figure from throat TO ankles, tight like the skin.
SANS-GENE