The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-09-30
A BAD SCARE.
How Philadelphia Girls Eyebrow
Were Suddenly Turned White.

Were Suddenly Turned White.
A pair of snow-white eyebrows with
tresses of raven black is the strange
combination to be seen now ON Miss
Carrie Suydam, daughter of August
Suydam, of No. LIS Courtland pIace,i
writes a Philadelphia correspondent of
the New York World Carrie is verv
pretty, nevertheless. and prides herself
on the oddity of her appearance. Until
about two weeks ago her eyebrows wereI
as black as her hair, but a terrible.
fright which she experienced about that
time threw her into a bed of sickness,
and when she arose the transformation
had taken place.
In company with Mr.. Arthur Sher-,
borne, Miss Carrie one evening went to
the Casino to witness the Chimes of
Normandy" Mr.. Sherborne is a clerk
in the Pennsylvania railroad office, and
lives at Torresdale. After the opera.
was over the couple visited a restaurant
for supper. and it was nearly o'clock.
in the morning when her escort bade
Miss Suydam good-by on the doorstep
of the picturesque Courtland place resi-
dence. She had already turned the
latch with her night-key. and as Mr.
Sherborne went whistling down thel
street she pushed open the door and
went in. She was somewhat surprised
to find that the hall light had been ex-i
tinguished, but she concluded that id
had been done by someone who did not
know that she was out. and she groped
her way to the second floor.
She had been in the habit of re-
moving her bracelets, watch, and hat
and leaving them on the piano just in
side the sitting-room door at the head
of the stairs, and as usual she now went
into the sitting-rOOm to deposit them
On this occasion, however, to her
amazement she found that the piano
was not in its accustomed place. The
articles which she had in the darkness
hastily placed where she supposed the
instrument was fell to the floor, and she
started back nonplused.
Could it be possible she had got into
the wrong house? She started at once,
bravely enough, to find out. Gathering
up the articles she had dropped on the
floor, she cautiously made her way to
the front bed-chamber. The door was
slightly ajar, and she pushed it open
further. A gas-jet, lighted but turned
low, threw just enough light around the
room for her to see at glance that she
had made mistake and was in q
strange house. On the bed in front of
her lay a man, half clothed, snoring
sonorously. He was tall and powerful,
and the gIrl trembled as she thought
that perhaps she was alone with him in
the building and at an hour after mid
night.
As she turned to retrace her steps she
tripped, and involuntarily a little scream
escaped her. That little scream
awakened the sleeper, and ne sprang
from his bed with an oath. Miss SuY-
dam, although almost paralyzed with
fear, managed to leap down the few
steps TO the sitting-room landing and to-
turn to 60 to the lower hall before he
rushed out of the door
who's that?" he cried.
She made no answer, but fairly flew
down the stairs. There was a sharp,
short report, and she felt pistol ball
Craze her cheek. With one bound she
was in the vestibule and had pulled the
vestibule door to after her. Another
bullet crashed through the glass panels
as she opened the front door and
bounded into the street.
Trembling with excitement she dis
covered that her own house was two
doors ABOVE by some means she had
entered No. LII instead of No. LIS.
and her mistake had come very near
proving fatal The houses in this block
are all alike in architectural appear
ance, and errors of this kind are fire.
quent. Miss Suydam was confined to!
her bed for over week after this aeci-
dent, and narrowly missed a serious
illness.
Mr. Jacob Godfrey, who lives at No
LII, and who fired the shots. was
much distressed about the occurrence,
though thankful that the shots did moth
ing more than damage his property and
turn Miss Carries eyebrows from black.
to white. His family was out of town
on the night the shooting occurred,
and he imagined that burglars had
gained an entrance to the house while
he slept.