Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-02

FOR COSMETICS. se2,OoO,oOO.
 American Women Pay this Every
 . Year for Supposed Aids Co Beau .
 ty.
 From the Chicago Inter.ocean.l
 Behind a little table, on which were ar-
 ranged bottles. pots, and boxes of washes,
 lotions, pastes, creams, and power, Dr.
 Albert E. Ebert, President of the Board of
 Pharmacy, talked to the members of the
 Women's Physiological Institute at Ethical
 Hall yesterday afternoon on Cosmetics.
 He talked very plainly, too, fixing his
 points as he proceeded by exhibiting sam
 ples of most of the preparations popular
 with women. What he said was not so
 much condemnation of the use of cosmetics
 as it was an explanation of the swindles practised by manufacturers.
 'sThere are 10000 of these preparations"
 he said, ssand one firm alone in this city
 lists 1, 900 of them.'' Then he read seven simple formulas and gave the names of @
 half dozen elements, and said that every compound sold under whatever name con- contained nothing he had not named. "This little pot," he said, holding up cream, ''has at present wonderful reputation on the strength of it's secret formula. What is ita Common zinc oxide, ground in equal parts of water and glycerine, and perfumsd and he did so. 7It has pretty ribbon about it, and sells for s1.5O, or SIS dozen. What does it costs Ten cents." Then he showed the ladies what they were buying l when they purchased another 'cream" of wide reputation. "You pay $1 .5O for it. It is pretty bottle and holds eight ounces. Seven of them are pure water. The other is calomel. Cost of calomel for dozen bot~ ties, B cents; cost of bottles, 25 cents; fll~ ing and corking, cents; total, 66 cents. Retail, $1s."
 "The danger arising from the use of cos- metics," said the doctor, ''is greatly over drawn. Face preparations have legiti- mate use, and properly used are no more harmful than perfumes. Zinc, when pres ent in powers, and bismuth is only slightly injurious. The principal trouble is the con- tinued application of powders and the stop ping up of the capillaries of the face. | Most face powders are only zinc, bismuth, magnesia, ,and chalk. Lead and mercury sell dom enter into them. These are more fre- quently found in washes which get their only merit from the glycerine or oil in which the elements are ground. In all of them there is no difference except as to name.n
 Dr. Ebert had some figures, which showed that $62 000, 900 were spent in America each year for cosmetics, of which $25, ,O0O- 900 were reinvested in advertising, and that the remainder, $15,000,000, was profit.
 1NCREDIBILITX OF HISTORY. 4 Number of Traditions That Are Now Tralled In the Duss. One of the most famous historical edifces in the Bridge of Signs in Venice, which connects the Doge's palace with the state
 prisons, writes w. s. Walch in Lippincott's for May. The name was popularly given it through what Howells calls "that opulence of compassion which enables the Italians to pity even rascality in difficulties" For, in spite of Byron, it cannot be associated with any romantic episode of history except the l story of Antonio Fosearini, since it was not built until the end of the 18th century, and | the prisoners who passed across it to judge l ment were mere vulgar criminals, like thieves | and murderers.
 The famous Round Tower at Newport, \ which popular tradition, confirmed by the genius of Longfellow, has associated with | the vikings, is but an ordinary windmill. | The maelstrom is an insignificant eddy. The car of Juggernaut does not crush believers under its wheels, exept in rare cases of acci- | dent.
 Not many years ago the mill of Sans Souci, which the miller refused to sell to l Frederick the Great. was brought down with l a crash by the Historical Society of Pots dams With it disappeared the lawsuit ot | which the mill is additionally believed to have been made the subject, and the judges l of such perfect integrity that they refused to decide unjustly in favor of the king. The germ of tine story lies in Dr. Zimmer-
 mans highly imaginary Conversations ' with Frederick the Great" All he says ! about the mill is that it interfered with the Kings view from the orsngery, that his ma l jesty wished to buy it, and that the miller refused to sell. The poet Hebel to Ztmmer- | mans supposed fact added his own story of | the lawsuit. But the mill could not by its position have interfered with Frederick'a views from the orangery, and the records of \ the Berlin tribunals contain no mention ot the action of eiectment which the King is
 held to have brought against his intractable subject.
 l Even modern history has been discredited | Arthur is ndoubtedly fable. Charlamagne l has been so beciouded by legend that 1t is | difficult to separate the true from the false but it is quite certain that his paladins are
 as mythical as Arthur's knights. Alfred never allowed the cakes to burn, nor vent- l ured into the Danish camp disguised ss a | minstrel. William Tell was a mythe. Fair Rosamond WAS not poisoned by Qaeen Elean- or but died iu the odor of sanctity in the ! convent of Godstow. BloIdel, the harper, | did not discover the prison in which Rich- ! ard H. was confined Charles TX. did not | fire upon the Huguenots with an arquebuse | from the window of the Louvre during the | Massacre of St. Bartholomew. Charles ". 1 did not celebrate his own obsequies in his ! lifetime. Clarence was never drowned in a butt of malmsey, nor WAS Richard IL. | starved to death in Pontefract Castle. The story of Aboard and Haloise has been strong 1 ly doubted, and a question has even been ! raised as to whether Joan of Arc ever sui fered the punishment that made her & mar tyr, though details of her execution and last
 moments are found in the civic records ot
 Rouen. Charles Monselet quotes a para
 graph from the Mercure of 1883, announcing ! that certain documents recently discovered
 led to the conclusion that Joan of Arc hao | been married, and that some unfortunate ! victim must have been sacrificed in her plac' in Rouen. The documents consisted of al
 attestation made by Fr. Riguer to the effec
 that Give years after the judgement of Joal maid visited Metz. On the same day he
 brothers called to see her. The.
 thought she had been burned, but whe
 they saw her they recognized her at once
 | They took her with them to Boquelon.
 had advanced copy of the original contrac I of marriage between Robert des Armoyse
 and Joan of Arc, otherwise known as tn \ Maid of Orfaaoa