The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-25
ADY oRMARoYD had found tina,

III ADY ORMAROYD had found that
three treatments week were
u necessary for the preservation of
her complexion and the effectual
reducing of double chin. Sometimes
/ went to her. More frequently she
came to me.
1 had sufficient interest in her APP
pearance and sufficient gratitude for
her many recommendations to do my
best for her. 1t was not easy work.
could but use art to supply the defects
of nature and the ravages of time.
Still art in an artistic sense may have
pleasing results, and certainly Lady
Ormaroyd was easily satisfied. In an
age when every one docs themselves
up more or less, people are too crit
ical. Society accepts deception as Its
due. Its only request is that it should
not be too glazing, too self-evident
f either in person or morals. OF stories
and scandals told me by my client their
name was legion. According to her,
society was corrupt to the core. Every
one knew it, and yet no one tried to
remedy the evil. Women worshiped
money, and could not exist without adj
miration. excitement and display. They
gambled, and bet, and smoked. and
drank, and danced, and f1frted from
Monday morning till Sunday night all
the season through. Sunday came no
longer as a rest day, breathing space
in that furious race fer netoriety or
pleasure. 1t meant chance for mo-
toring; for mad races with rival Pan
hards and Mercedes and Napier cars,
! for noisy al fresco picnics and teas in
quiet retreats once sacred to rural
Rwains and rustic idyls.
Yet, as l pointed out to Lady Orma-
royd, these new erazes had their use.
They had inaugurated the cult of the
beauty doctor and introduced a new
and lucrative career for the surplus
feminine population of the British Isles.
The dust coarsened skins, the strained
eyes, the new facial wrinkles born OF
lncessant attention, a constant "loek
out' and a reckless bravado in the
matter of special these notable re-
suits of motoring made work for my
profession Monday generally brought
a new relay of victims !, as one OF
the conscientious members of the cult,
did not hesitate to give true names to
the evils I detected; but numbers Of
less scrupuIous manipulaters only used
them as a means to an end, a very
profitable end, too, IN some cases.
Lady Ormaroyd detested motoring, al
though on occasions she martyrized
herself for the benefit of friend Or
the duties of a chaperon.
On the Monday following the eele-
bFated garden party she sent for me
to do her up" for the evening.
I found her lying On couch in her
; dressing room in a state of semi-ex-
haustion.
Z i"Oh, my dear Mime. Beaudelet, it's
,, q wonder I'm not dead!" she walled.
Look at me! Did you ever see such
wreck? And I started off yesterday
g afternoon as fresh as we'll, never
mind. I was only to drive down to
Farnham and expected to be back by
10 O'clock. I was going with Mrs.
Luke Porteous. who has her own car
and her own chauffeur, though she can
drive quite well herself. But there
it's a long story. You'd better get to
work and I'll tell it while you're doing
my face. Thanks, that's quite COM
Portable. Oh, my poor head! Every
nerve in it throbs. feel as if should
never get the horrible noise of that
machine out of my ears again! Well,
my dear, to continue, who should Mrs.
Luke call for en- route but Countess w.
OF course, didn't like to say anything
so off we went. The countess sat
with the chauffeur in front of the car,
and Mrs. Porteous and J were behind.
You don't know her, perhaps? Well,
she's the most awful talker. Her
tongue is never still for an instant.
She chartered and jabbered until ]
was nearly mad, and what with the
noise of the thing and the speed and
the dust, and Mrs. Luke's dozen yards
r Of yelling that would keep getting
loose and flying into my face, and
taking all my attention to rearrange;
ne had gone well I thought co1no