The morning times., 1896-10-11
For $500 a French Chemist Will Preserve You
in Gold or Silver According to Taste.
A PROCESS FOR KEEPING A BODY FOREVER
Statesmen Preserved for Public Parks, and Bellies
in the Nude for Fountains
GOLD AND BRASS PLATE FOR MILLIONAIRES and RULERS

that their tcauty will be handed down to
future generations, instead OF peri shins in
the midnight Of the tomb. Finely formed
bodies of dead women would be in de-
Inand, for they would serve as ornaments
for fountains aud public parks: they would
be used as caryatides. Perhaps even the
artistic lamp posts Of the future may
be the metallized body of today's belle,
preserved in the nude aud posed i'll an
attractive position.
To some persons this preservation of
the dead is urspeakatly repu!sive. To
others IL would be narrowing beyond
measure. To look into the face # the
dear dead and see the familiar Inca
ments without the familiar smile would
be prdonging the hour of parting agony,
making sepulchrc Of life.
But, it must he remembered. that there
is Il great difference in peoplcin this respect
and what is one mans meat is another
mans poison In no instance is this Il
truer saying than in the case of the pres
ervation OF the dead. Records there are
OF people who sit by a coffin daily for
years, looking upon the poor, cold, en-
Oalmed face, rlastly from deaths changes.
Others make life daily Mecca to the
emetery, where Only few poor flowers
spring from the lifelessness. But such is
life-and such is death.
To people who find comfort in looking
upon the dead this silverplated ancestry
is boon. consolation, a solace, a balm
that cannot be measured by any words that
can be applied 10 it. To see the figure
preserved in brilliant plate, glowing and
iifelike, would delight a wounded heart
and coax it to cheer again
Others from motives of pride would like
their ancestry preserved in silver and gold.
No portrait gallery Could be as rich as
Il statue gallery, and thus a race pride
would be pampered and preserved.
BY common consent it is agreed that the
dead be clothed nearly as in life, and the
clothing made as lustrous as the body.
Favorite attitudes are also metallized and
thus another bit of realism comes into
play.
A METALLIZED MONARCH.
This, while new, was anticipated. There
is the case OF n Madagascar monarch,
about whom story travels from abroad.
That worthy, SO the story goes, desirous
OF making an impression urou British
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the royal audience i'll a cluse-fitting suit
Of gold dust on a foundation OF palm
oil, The nlagnifcence OF the monarch
was, however, fatal, and he fell Il victim
to his ambition to appear before the
representative OF her majesty in a state
OF unparalleled splendor.
The coating of gold dust closed the
royal pores, and the epiderniis deprived
OF the air which it takes through its
many million mouths brought about the
disorder which speedily ended the un-
fortunate rulers life. He was buried
in this, his best suit of clothes. Ten
years later his body was taken from
its tomb to be placed in more imposing
quarters, when TO the surprise OF the
train which had come to remove the
royal remains, the body was found to be
intact, a golden statue.
EDWARD P. UPJoHN.