The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-15
ESTHETIC PALLOR.

Speaking of weakness Of the gent
Ter sex, says Cleveland Correspon
dent, met my friend, the doctor.
yesterday, and az he and I stood and
surveyed the passing show, q plump,
fair woman passed by, ard / said to
him: "What q charming complex
jonl" "short-lived, though, my dear
boy" qnoth he. / expressed my sur
prise, for my charmer Was young.
arsenic Talbot, srsenic," said he,
calmly. Then it dswned upon me
what he meant. Resumipg, he said:
cts use is increasing. Women eat
it in two forms; the white powder,
that caused poor Jennie CrsLner's
death, or arsenious acid. as the drug
dealers have it, and FoWleT's solution,
which the pharmacoposia says is a
mixture Ut arsenic with potash in a
fluid form. Either way Of taking
arsenic produces the plumpness of
face and beauty of complexion that
YOU noticed in yon fair lady. Its in
auence is principally on the capillary
surface OF the skin, which produces
the plumpness- In plain English,
water is the influence at work, and
in the end it shows itself. The akin
assumes Watery transparency,
which in lis turn gives way to ghast-
illness and whitening OF the lips.
That is the awakening from the bliss
. full dream. Beauty vanishes aud
the end GENES. Horrible? Oh, no
l call it retribution. Cynical? Per-
maps but plain truth generally Is,
my dear boy, in these days OF ours.
Arsenic eating can be stopped at any
time without an effort, excep. that
which vanity breads. 1t has none OF
thu soporific effect OF OF iIm or NOR
phine. Used as medicine it 10 an
excellent tonic, one Of the best
known"
"HoW long can arsenic be used
before it produces the ghsstliness yon
speak OFF" / asked my monitor.
''Slx weeks unbroken dosing will
do The work we'll and efectuallyr
answered he; "but woman is skilliuD,
and using it g week, she pausesi and
before the effect of the cessation
comes she takes another interval OF
arsenic dosing. Thus fate is held of.
The end must come, however, and 1t
GENES all loo soon for the arsenic
eaters. Some systems agrees with
the drug longer than others, bat
few years of the periodical eating SET
ties it. Verify was it said, Vanity,
thy name is woman I"
SIT is an astounding thing" went
On The cynic, "that you cannot kill 8
pig with arsenic. l had q friend, an
enthusiastic chemist, who had pre-
served lot of cherries ia an srsenlcai
solution, and hsying 10 further uss
for them, threw them one morning
from his window. A rambling por-
ker, on the lookout for edible triAes,
saw them drop, and looking them
over and contrasting them with the
usual exosnse OF tile, brick-bat and
old tin cana on which it had been his
daily won't to browse, oagrly swal-
lowed them. My friend was alarmed,
and visions OF bill for the value OF 6
dead and UNBEATABLE pig rose like q
spectator before his eyes. He chased
the pig away and thought that per
haps its death might not be laid at
his door if the pig was not there wner
it expired. The incident warned him
but on the following morning he wa!
dumbfounded to see the pig waiting
for more OF the deadly fruit. Some
we're prepared, Tor o'y friend was al
investigator, and doled Out to his hog
ship. He devoured them ant
grunted mufled r@au in theil
praise. Each morning thst pig re
turned and each morning the doe
Increase, until my friend was ruine'
and the pigs confidence in arsenica
cherries was stronger than ever."