Iron County register., 1898-12-01
Job Work of all kinds at this Office.
WHAT SOME WOMEN WILL DO.
Risks That They VIII Take to Gain
Temporary Good Looks.

o0O0 bOoEs.
AT the inquest upon a lady recently
killed by the explosion of hairwash
with which she was having her hair
dressed, ar official stated curious fact
in his evidence. He said that lady who
had been used to having her hair pre-
pared with the wash proved to be so
dangerous had since the explosion re-
fused to desist from the practice, but
had required her hairdresser TO keep
damp blankets at hand while the oper-
alton was in progress, so that II an
explosion did occur, the fire might be
readily put out.
The incident shows what some women
will dare for beauty. The lady in ques-
ton, however. is by no means so ex-
ceptional an individual as many folk
will be tempted to imagine. Thousands
of women are content to risk their lives
or health, or are willing to undergo
exquisite tortures, all for the sake of
some tempting proffer of beauty-often
delusion-to be gained.
Most doctors number among their pa
tients women who are suffering from
the effects of arsenic eating. The ar
senic is taken for the purpose of at
tanning various results with regard tc
personal appearance. The gravest warn
ings of the terrible physical effects
which must in time ensure are alto
gether disregarded by these ladies,
Physicians d$clare that patients when
cured will constantly recur to this
drug, mot so much from craving for
the drug" the physicians assured the
writer. .'as from a haunting fear of .
diminution of charm if the drug is dis
carded."
The use of belladonna for the eyes is.
as every one knows, most calculated to
have disastrous effects upon the sight
Thousands and thousands of women:
however, avail themselves of it, and
very many are also found who are
anxious to undergo a painful and dan
gerous operation upon the eye itself.
the object of which is to impart a grace
full curve to the eyeIid. The danger OF
the operation consists in the possibility
of injury being done to the nerves con-
trolling the action of the lids, causing
partial paralysis.
One notorious impostor who got into
the hands of the police some years back
was proved to have had as one of her pa
1ients a lady from whose face she had
nctually removed patches of skin, fix
ing the vacant places with species Of
enamel. The process was too exquisite
iy painful for more than n small por-
ton of the countenance to be treated at
q time The lady submitted to the treat
ment for months, and paid a small for
tune to the quack, who demanded stead
lily increased payments by holding out
the threat of having the job incomplete
and the lady only ''half done" in more
senses than one.
The enameled countenance-enam-
eled without the fiaying process in the
above instances most ordinarily a
wash of torture. Once enameled, you
must be so alwaysAor hideous for the
rest of your life, for the process has a
disastrous effect upon the natural com
plexion. The rigor of the enameled
face is constant source of anguish and
of muscular weakness and decay.
The most popular form of torture con-
nected with large feet is undoubtedly
their contraction into small boots. This
is not, however, enough for some ladies
who desire to alter the foot itself, and
to seek the aid of the quack beautifier
who will undertake the job by means OF
ali injurious instrument, which, by
screws and levers, brings to bear a
pressure upon the bones to squeeze
them into elegant shape. This instru
ment is popular in Paris, where one OF
its operators got into trouble some
months ago in consequence of his hav'
ing permanently lamed lady who had
placed herself in his hands.-Bostor
Traveller.