Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-03

CT, who lives on the Nevsky Prospect, for breach of contract, in his failure to dye her hair on the one hand, and for serious injury done to her head on the other. It appears that Mime. Soosloff entered the defendants attractive establishment on August S1, and expressed desire to have the color of her hair "correcred, declar- ing it considerably in advance of her years, she being still brisk, lively and only forty two, while her hair was already A
 silver-gray. The artist gladly undertook,
 for & moderate consideration, to impsrt
 any color of the rainbow to her lururiAnt
 locks, and it was agreed that the operation
 should take place on the following day.
 Next morning the lady took her seat in
 large armchair before an enormous mir
 TOT, and one of the assistants began to rub
 her head and hair with whitish prepara- ton, after which he took to smearing it with another substance ''of a vague. in- definite color, which caused me horrible pain" The operator, in reply to the lady's exclamations, endeayored to tranouilize
 her with the assurance that ''that was the
 way with them all;" that the pain was
 caused by the preparation killing out the old color before impsrting the new. Still he did not seem quite satisfied himself, for
 he summoned the proprietor, and the two
 whispered anxiously together for some
 time at the far end of the room.
 When he resumed the work Mme Soos-
 lotf, glancing at herself in the mirror, was petrihed to see her hair standing straight
 on end, and on touching it to assure her
 self that it was really hers, to see it fall out ss if it had no roots. Mortified at the
 sight and maddened with the pain, she
 started out of the armchair and rushed
 wildly into the street, where she appealed TOT help to the dyorniks, who are always
 sitting like Cerberi at the gates of the houses of which they are the guardians.
 But on learning what had happened they answered, unsympathetically s'Thst's none of our business" on which the ter
 rihed lady fled to the police station, where | the doctor moderated her excitement and soothed her pains. Some policemen were
 then dispatched to seal up the offending | cosmetics and forward them to the board | Of medicine, which declared the contents
 of one of them to be fused nitrate of sill
 yer, and the other preparation in which
 sulphuric acid was too prominent ingre- | dient.
 At the trial 1t was proved that the lsdy's
 head had suffered very grievously from the action of these dyes At first it swelled to a monstrous size the hair in the center and sides all falling out, while the tresses that remained assumed a repellent green tint and also began to fall out. The | lady, whose osely-shaved head was GOV cred with wig, requested the court to | compel the defendant to supply her with an elegant wig at once, and to attend to her hair every day until it grew as long and lu1uriant as before To this the de fendant demurred, and argued that his
 cosmetics, which bore the appropriate
 names of "Blond- blond" and "Drops of Heavenly Dew," could not possibly have caused any inconvenience to Mime. Soos- loff. who was suffering previously from some skin disease. This ungallant plea having been completely disproved, the
 court fined the defendant in sum of fhrea DnUDds