The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-28
A SPOILED COMPLEXION.
A Peculiar Suit Against saratoi
Springs PrOprietor

Peculiar Suit. Against Saratoga
Springs Proprietor.
A cracked and otherwise defaced
complexion is likely to be the basis of
suit for damages at the next term
of the Albany supreme court says the
New York Journal The plaintiff in the
case Is q young woman not unknown
IN New York city, and the complex
ion in question has frequently been ex-
hlbited at all the nearby watering
places.
The trouble was the lady's complex
ion was of handmade origin. Ordi-
narily its owner did not possess a
marked and lively color, and when she
returned from Paris during the spring
of 1898, her friends were somewhat
amazed to descry the bloom of youth
that had replaced her former sallow
features.
The truth of the matter was that
while the young woman was visitor
in Paris she attended the seances of a
dermatologist, who, by devices known
to his like. tinted and toned the lady's
face and then laid over his handiwork
preventative enamel. This was war
ranted waterproof, and with occasion
al retouching was warranted to last a
year.
After the young woman had amazed
the natives of her home place she and
her mother went to Saratoga, where
they took rooms at one of the big no.
tells near the springs.
Now the proprietor of this hotel had
just bored an artesian well upon his
premises, and was extremely proud
of the fact that his guests could get
an abundance of fresh, clear spring
water.
But, lucklessly for himself, the pro-
prietor of the hotel and artesian well
failed to obtain professional opinion
upon the action of mineral water when
applied to handmade countenance.
AS a matter of fact, neither had the
lady. So one morning the guests were
overwhelmed by shrieks from the young
womans apartments.
When the startled attendants tried to
push their way into the lady's apart
ments, she barricaded the door and
screamed for her mother. That lady
came upstairs in haste, and at the in
slant she saw her daughter her shrieks
added to the general confusion.
1t appears that, the lady for the first
time during her stay at the hotel had
attempted to scour her enamel with
the new artesan water. A curious sem
sation moved her to look in the glass
in the midst of this ablution, when to
her horror she found that her face had
turned dusky settled black.
Somehow, you know, the chemicals in
the well water had acted upon the
chemicals in the enamel with surpris-
ing, unlocked for results.
The hotel physician was hastily sum-
moned. He did his best to conceal his
feelings, but it was a hard struggle.
Madame" said he, time is the
great restorer and you must have
patience.
In other words, the lady would have
to wait until her enamel wore Off she
insisted however, that he remove it,
whereupon he informed her that no
chemical could remove it without re-
moving her skin as well.
So in the middle of the night the lazy
and mother, the daughter heavily
yelled, fitted homeward in the dark,
and for the remainder of the season
she remained secluded in the privacy
of her home.
After the lapse of six weeks she
emerged once more, when her friends
were pleased to behold her with cheeks
as sallow and peaked as of old