Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-01-12


hcr han'- werr parulyzeI. When
! lrN ,i"Ha wirt ! ruuij f.r hor /
took Nate into hrrrptm
Tell ne tn Truth. a, though you
We're before Your Maker said /: DO
yoa use that Bioon Of Nhjte IJoict5
Yet Ellen has done ~ and this is
IL" End Of Ii.
no, Doctor" replied katr. L
haven't tourhr! it since our quarrel.
VIII WIS t~0 al ay; bat poor Nell
wash; -colird. d. / Wa. Siia5 gave
III. Oh, Doctor. can't you help
her.
I'll 10 NY best. SAID !.
| could have cried, too; bat doctor
learns 10 control his feelings.
Well. ] found my bes. was better
than l hoped. After six months Of
pain and h"iplessnes-, Nell did begin
to get well. In year she had the
lisa Of hey hands again. The l!uo
line over her teeth was gone. and her
skin WAS healthy once more. Silas
was rej"iced lie pettcd tho girl as
if sh" was baby. and hired Il servant
t. do her work for her. as he had
while she was unable to do it That
was not, perhaps, the best thing he
could have done. bnt Nell loved him
for it. She went out great deal,
and dressed as well as she was able
better. | think for heard of certain
bills that Silas had hard work to pay.
However. as he said. she had suffered
so much that he wanted her to enjoy
her life a little now And when sum
mer came, l was surprised to hear
that Nell was going to Long Branch
to hotel.
Seaside is a good place to 90 to-"
l said; but hotel life is not the
thing"
We'll, Nell wants it." said Silas.
so I've drawn out my savings, and
she'll have couple Of weeks of it. A
friend Of hers, who married rich, is
going, and Nell will go with her. It's
expensive, but I've only got Nell, you
know"
We'll, you are your own MASTER"
said l. After all, money was made
to spend"
And money tcds spent. Ellen went
to Long Branch; dressed, as far as
my mans eyes could tell. Us we'll az
any one. Silas told me how she en-
joyed the hops, and how people had
told her they didn't believe She was
over seventeen, and how well she felt.
She wrote to him every day. All
seemed going on well, until one day
l received a telegram from Long
Branch, signed by Silas.A
/ Come here at once. Nell is dying"
went. When l got there, 1 found
Nell speechless and going from one
CONFUSION into another.
The cause was on her dressing
bureau. A little box. porcelain this
time, and labeled Cream of the
Angels" but full of some deadly
preparation of lead.
Don't speak of it, Doctor moaned
Silas Il didn't know about it until
found that. thought poor Nell
had learned her lesson"
They gathered up the handsome
dresses, the jewelry, the lace, the
puffs and powders. and hair restora-
tives, for her illness had given Ellen
some gray hairs, and she had FASTENED
her fate by using restorative of
lead and lac sulphus and we took
the poor girl home. No one had any
hope now. Kate sat by Nell's bed
side with little new baby that had
Just come to her, and which her sis
ter could not see, though she stared
in its direction with her meaningless
eyes, and for a long while we all
nursed her; but her brain was gone,
her limbs useless, and when death
came his touch was merciful.
1t is two years now since Ellen
died. Kate and Will do all they can
to cheer Silas, but believe his heart
is broken. He will sit for hours
with Hates child on his knee. for he
fancies it has Ellen's eyes; and
sometimes he will say:
"Ah, Will, if l had been as firm
with my wife as you were with yours
] might have her yet.
Will always answers:
You did your best, old fellow"
but that does not alter the fact that
the "Bloom of White Violets," the
Cream of the Angels" and the
Vegetable Hair Restorative" killed
poor Nell.
My story draws its own moral!
1t is sadly true; and it is not the
only story of the kind. Hospital
records prove this. In one, at this
moment, three girls are lying, young,
pretty, and foolish as Ellen was, vic
tins of cosmetics. And in the same
ward a brunette, who bleached her
hair to dye it golden. She is fast
becoming an idiot. The others have
their senses and are utterly helpless,
though they have hope of recovery.