News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16
A BAD SCARE.
How Philadelphia Grips Eyebrows were
Suddenly Turned White.
From the Philadelphia LEDGER


A pair of snow white eyebrows with
tresses of raven black is the strange
combination to be seen now on Miss
Carrie Suydam, of I715 Courtlandt
place. Carrie is very pretty, neverthe-
her appearance, Until about two
weeks ago her eyebrows were as black
as her hair, but terrible fright which
she experienced about that time threw
her into 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 tine ''Chimrs OF
Normandy" After the opera was over
the couple visited restaurant for sup
per, and it was nearly o'clock in tie
morning when her escort babe Miss
Suydam goodbye on the doorstep of
the picturesque CORTLAND place resi-
dence. She had already turned tho
latch with her nlghtkey, and as Mr..
Sherborne went whistling down the
street she pushed open the door and
went in. She was somewhat surprised
to find that the hall light had been ex-
tinguished, but she concluded that it
had been done by some one who did not
know that she was out, and she CROPPED
her way to the second floor.
She had been in the habit of remov-
ing her bracelets, watch and hat and
leaving them on the piano just inside
the sitting room door at the end of the
stairs, and as usual she now went in
to the sittingroom to deposit them.
On this occasion, however, TO her
amazement she found that the piano was
not in its accustomed place. The arti-
cles which she had in the da; k has lily
placed where she supposed the instru-
ment was fell to the floor, and she
started back nonplussed.
Could it be possible that 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 bnt turned low, threw Just
enough light around the room for hel
to see at a glance that she had made a
mistake and was in a strange house. On
the bed in front of her lay 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 midnight.
AS she turned to retrace her steps, she
tripped and involuntarily little scream
awakened the sleeper and he sprung
dam, although almost paralyzed with
fear, managed to leap down the few
steps to the sitting room landing and to
turn to go 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 a pistol ball
Craze her cheek With one bound she
cleared The vestibulo 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 I'LL, and her mistake had come
near proving fatal. The houses in the
block are all alike in architectural APP
pcarance, and errors OF this kind are
frequent. Miss Suydam was confined to
her bed for over week after this Incl
dent, and narrowly missed q serious
illness.
Mr. Jacob Godfrey, who lives in iii,
and who fired the shots, was much dis
tressed about the occurrence, though
thankful that the Shots did nothing
more than damage bis property some
what and turn Miss Currie's eyebrows
from black to white. His family was
out of town on the night the shooting
occurred, o. d he imagined that bur
glars had gal Il an entrance to the
house while he slept.