The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-20

you any more letters?"
I'VE have exchanged a good many. She
has behaved very badly"
Yes: but so like a wcman-that's what
will win the jury to her side-yes. and the
great washing public"
He went away, and for three months the
works continued in full swing
At the end Of three months all the news
boys in Great Britain were announcing to
the waiting world the fact that the de-
cision had been given by the jury in the
extraordinary breach-of-promise case
against lady," and on every contents
sheet of every evening paper there was
printed the words THE Beatty Soap-Ex-
traordinary Case" In every club. in every
public house, in every free library, in every
hotel, in every railway carriage and in
every omnibus throughout the kingdom ev-
cry passenger was reading the letters
which had convulsed the Under Sheriffs
Court that day during the hearing of the
case OF "Sim VS.. Combermere." 1t ap-
peared that a young man named Sim had
brought an action for breach of promise
against a young woman named Comber-
mere and as the suit was undefended ii
was brought to the Under Sheriffs Court
for the assessment of damages.
Mr.. Glaston. Q. c.. M. P. appeared for
the plaintiff, and stated that his client and
Miss Combermere had at one time been
on the best of terms. and it was not denied
that there had been an engagement be-
tween them. But as 1t would be shown
from the letters which he would have the
honor of submitting to the court. the lady
had behaved in very heartless manner,
and had Tilted her lover on a most ridicu-
lous pretext, that pretext being that since
she had used the well-known Madame Sher-
bert's Beauty Soap-here counsel produced
packet Of the soap, and amid great laugh
ter recommended his learned brethren to
try It-her personal charms had been so
heightened that 1t seemed to her she was
justified in seeking better match than the
man who had been faithful to her for two
years.
Now, gentlemen" the learned counsel
continued. 1--WE do not deny the fact that
owing to the use Of Madam Sherbet's
Beauty Soap the defendant became trans
formed from a young lady of no more than
average charms into one whose complexion
could not fail to excite unbounded admir-
alton on the part of even the most fastidi-
ous Yes, am instructed that the plaintiff
does not deny the marvelous-the almost
incredible power of Madame Sherbet's
Beauty Soap; but he thinks, and 1 have
no doubt, gentlemen. that you will agree
with him. that he is deserving of the hand
some compensation for his desertion solely
on this ground by the handsome, but fear
1 must add, heartless lady who is the de-
PENDANT In this case"
The counsel then read half dozen let
tiers written by the defendant to the plain
tiff. In the first of these the lady
pressed herself in the usual affectionate
terms for the man to whom she was en-
gagged, and only in the postscript was
there a reference to Madame Sherbet's
Beauty Soap. Have you ever heard of
it?' she inquired 'I have just bought
single square. I sure that 1t is rub
tish, though Mabel says 1t is the greatest
that If it produces any change for the bet
ter on my homely features it must be a
wonder indeed"
The next letter was clearly written in re-
ply to her lovers remonstrance with her
for having anything to do with what he
had called "the invention of some quack."
The lady reproved him for being prejudiced
against an article of which he know moth
ing. She forwarded to him an analysis of
the soap made by most eminent authority
and this had pronounced the soap to be alb
solutely pure. Mother says she thinks my
complexion distinctly improved since 1 be-
gan to use it, and Mabel does the same:
though you know she always was bit jeal-
Gus of her own beauty" was the final para
graph.
The next letter, written fortnight later.
was about nothing but the Beauty soap
1T is a marvel-the greatest of the age.
Every one that calls says. How we'll you
are looking So 1 am. You would not
know me. And you were talking about
quacks remedies, you silly boy
The next letter, written three weeks
later, was so cool in tone that 1T practically
broke off the engagement. 81 fear that
was rather hasty in engaging myself" the
writer said. But then, you see, 1 was
always regarded as the ugly duckling of
the family. but now-oh, that Beauty soap
is wonder!''
The learned counsel was about to read
the remaining letters, when the defend
ants counsel rose and after hasty con-
sultation with his learned brother said
that he was instructed to apply to the
learned under sheriff to permit a juror to
be withdrawn. as he was happy to say
settlement had been come to and his
learned brother would be saved the trouble
of reading the remaining letters
And that was how on the same evening
there was nothing talked about in London
and the provinces but Madame Sherbet's
Beauty Soap; that was how the next day
every newspaper in the kingdom contained
breezy little leaderettes upon the curious
breach of promise case; that was how
every chemist and every coiffeur in the
kingdom had dozens of applications for
Madame Sherbet's Beauty Soap, and that
was how Charlie Sim and his wife are now
living in Berkeley square, while Madame
Sherbet's Beauty Soap. limited" is now one
of the most flourishing of all the COM
panies fioated by Mr.. Wilfrid Bates.