The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-01
HER DARK SKIN TURNED WHITE
MuInttO Girl in Missouri Who Has
Become of Marble Whiteness.
From the Chlcago ChronIcle


From the Chicago Chronicle.
Kansas City, MOTOR several years
past there has been in this place, un-
known to all save few relatives and init
mate friends, girl who presents one Of
the rarest and most remarkable cases Of
vtiligo in the world. Miss Daisy Day,
"A years old, whose parents were both dark
mulattoes, Is now of a marble whiteness,
though up TO the time she was u years old
she was as dark skinned as her parents.
Miss Day lives with her widowed mother
and younger brother al 1i1l Lydia ave-
nue.. The family is we'll 70 do her father,
John Day, who was an industrious car
penter, having accumulated considerable
real estate in the southeastern part Of the
city previous to his death, twelve years
ago. The widow, who is well educated
and refined has since managed the proper
ty. She received about Sll, 900 for a por-
ton of her property, which was condemn
ed for park purposes. An elder brother
OF Miss Day is a dark mulatto, while
younger brother is almost jet black.
1t was while on a visit with her mother
to Houston, Tex, when she was II years
Old, that Miss Day first discovered that
she was turning white. 1t was an eX-
tremely warm day and the young girl had
was wiplng the perspiration from her face
when she discovered a light spot on her
forehead. She was amazed and thought
at first that it was paint, but she could
not erase it. Within a few days the spot
had become perfectly whichever lacking
the pink coloring of the skin Of the white
race. The spot grew in circumference,
and soon other spots appeared on her face
and hands.
Within a few weeks the part of her
hands exposed to the light had become per-
fecty white. Her face, neck and scalp
also grew white in a few months. At no
time during the transformation did she
suffer the least inconvenience. She had
never been i'll in her life, and she continued
in the best of health. Although deeply
alarmed, the girls mother did not consult
a physician, as her daughter was in the
best of health That part of the body
exposed to the light was the first to turn
white, but the pigments of the skin grad
ualy lost their coloring matter and
when she was about Is years old her
whole body was perfectly white. The fam
lily kept the story of the remarkable trans
formation to themselves and only a few
of the most intimate friends of the family
learned of the change that had come over
the girl since her birth. She attended
the Lincoln high school after finishing the
ward schools, where she graduated at the
head of her ciass five years ago. Since
that time she has been teaching the third
and fourth grades at the Sumner school,
and has the reputation of being one of the
best teachers in the public schools.
Personally Miss Day is most interesting.
She is sensitive and unassuming, but IN
tellgent and cultured. She is of medium
hight and has scarcely any of the facial
features Of her race. She has soft, wlvy
black hair, which she combs back straight
from her high, broad forehead. The most
remarkable contrast which her marble
wilderness makes is with her lips, which
have a healthy red glow.