Daily camera., 1898-02-09
WOMEN TAKE GREAT RISKS.
Just to Gain for Themselves Tenn
porary Beauty.
They Make Use of Chemicals Which
in Time Destroy Every Vestige
of Natural Good
Looks.

killed by the explosion of hairwash
with which she was having her hair
dressed, an official stated a curious fact
in his evidence. He said that lady who
had been used to having hez 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 if 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
viii be tempted to imagine. Thousands
of wcmen 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 ty-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 to
personal alappearaEce The gravest warn
ings of the terrible physical effects
which must in time ensure are alto
gether disregarded by these ladies.
Physicians declare 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 haunting fear of Il
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 painful and dam
gerous operation upon the eye itself,
the object of which is to impart grace
full curve to the eyelid. 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
tients lady from whose face she had
actually removed patches of skin, fill
ing the vacant places with species of
enamel. The process was too exquisite
ly painful for more than small por
ton of the countenance to be treated at
a time. The lady submitted to the treat
ment for months, and paid small for
ture to the q1,ack, 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 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
elcd without the faying process in the
above instances most ordinarily a
wash of torture. Once enameled, you
must be so always-or 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.
Tie most popular form of torture con-
nected withj 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 beautifer,
who will undertake the job by means of
All Injurious instrument, which, by
screws and levers, brings to bear
pressure upon the bones to equeeze
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 a lady who had
placed herself in his hands.-Boston
Traveller.