Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-03-24
ESTHETlC PALLOR.
Silly Women Eating Arsenic for Weeks
10 Attain it.

Speaking of weakness of the gentler sex,
says Cleveland correspondent, 1 met my
friend, the doctor, yesterday, and as he and I
stood and surveyed the passing show, plump.
fair woman passed by, and said to hm ''What
| charming complexiOn!' sshort-lived. though.
my dear boy" quoth he. depressed surprise,
for my charmer was young. "Arsenic! Talbot
arsenic" said he calmly. Then it dawned upon
me what he meant. Resuming, he said: Its
use Is increasing. Women eat it in two
forms; the white powder. that caused poor
Jennie Cramer's death, or arsenious acid, as the
drug dealers have it, and Fowlers solution.
which the pharmacopoeia says is mixture of
of taking arsenic produces the plumpness offace
and beauty of complexion that you noticed in
yOn fair lady. Its influence is principally on the
capillary, surface of the skin,, which pro-
%aes he the p npeeee at WORK. plain and Es th
end 1t shows itself The skin assumes a
watery Transparency, which in it's turn gives
way to ghastliness and whitening of the lips.
That is the awakening from the blissful dream
Beauty vanishes and the end comes. Horrible2
Oh, no! / call it retribution. Cynical? Perhaps!
but plain truth generally is, my dear boy. in
these days of ours. Arsenic eating can be
stopped at any time without an effort, except
that which vanity breads. It has none of the
soporific effect OF opium or morphine. Used as
a medicine it is an excellent tonic, one of the
best known"
"How long can arsenic be used before It pro-
duces the ghastliness you speak Off" asked
my mentor.
Six weeks unbroken dosing will do the
work well and effectually," answered he; ..but
woman Is skllfuI and. using it a week. she
pauses, and before the effect Of the cessation
comes she takes another interval of arsenic
dosing. Thus fate is held off, The end must
come, however. and it comes all too soon for
the arsenic eaters. Some systems agree with
the drug longer than Others but few wears of
the periodical eating settles it. Verify was it
said, Vanity thy name is woman"
+ 1T is an astonishing thing went on the
c! nic, that you cannot kill pig with arsenic
had friend who was an enthusiastic chemist
He had preserved "a lot of cherries in an arsen-
lcal solution. and having no further use for
them threw them, one morning, from his labor
atory window. A5rambling porker. on the look
out for edible trtttes saw them Drop and look
ing them over, and contrasting them with the
usual expanse Of tile, brickbat and old tin
cans on which 1t had been his daily wont to
browse, eagerly swallowed them. My friend
was alarmed and visions of bin for the value
OF dead and UNBEATABLE pig rose like specter
before his eyes. He chased the Dig away, and
tnousht that perhaps it's death might not be
laid at his door II the pig was not there when it
expired. The incident warned him. but on the
following morning he was dumbfounded to see
the pig waiting for more Of the deadly fruit.
Some were prepared, for my friend was an in
vestigat0r, and d0led out to his hogshp He
devoured them, and grunted mufied pean in
| their praise Each morning that pig returned,
aud each morning the dose was increased until
my friend was ruined and the pigs conasernurc m
arsenical cherries strn.:: .< sci ti11n ever