Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-01
A SPOILED COMPLEXION.
A Peculiar Suit Against Saratoga Springs
Proprietor.

| A Peculiar Suit Against Saratoga Springs
Proprietor.
A cracked and otherwise defaced
complexion is likely to be the basis oi
suit for damages at the next term OF
the Albany supreme court, says the
New York Journal. The plaintiff in
the case is young woman not un'
known in New York city, and the
complexion in question has frequently
been exhibited at all the nearby water
ing places.
The trouble was the lady's complex,
ion was of handmade origin. Ordi-
narily it's owner did not possess d
marked and lively color, and when
she returned from Paris during the
spring of 1898 her friends were some
what 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
q preservative enamel. This was war
ranted waterproof, and with occasional
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 we'll upon
his premises, and was extrsmel y 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 counten-
ance. As a matter of fact, neither
had the lady. So one morning the
guests were overwhelmed by shrieks
from the young woman's 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. The 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 artesian water. A curious sensa-
ton moved her to look in the glass in
the midst of her ablution, when to her
horror she found that her face had
turned dusky, settled black.
Somehow, you know, the chemicals
in the we'll water had acted upon the
chemicals in the enamel with surprls-
ing, unlocked for results.
The hotel physician was hastily sum-
moned. He did his best to conceal his
feelings; but it was hard struggle.
MADAME" said he, "time is the
great restorer, and you must have pa
tience."
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
lady 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.