The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-15

T have been dying with hunger for the past few weeks, if it is to be d choice between being well fed O.
 beautiful, 1 would rather be well fed"
 A weIl-known lady in society, and the wife of a gentleman connected
 with the Court adopted the simple and severe life, with rather unex- pected and unusual results This lady, I must explain, was one of the most pIeasure-lOving people it is possible to imagine. She had
 dainty appetite, and gratifed it at an enormous expense. At every meal she had some dishes that were the productions of a chef to whom her husband paid a salary of thousand | pounds a year.
 She never rose before lunch hour and rarely was in bed until the early hours of the morning. Her whole life was a round of amusement, self indulgence. and pleasure of every ! kind. She was. indeed one of the most heartless and selfish women I ! ever met.
 Well, this lady as have said, started to lead the simple life. l I fully anticipated that she would i tire of it before long, but she didn't | Once when l went to visit her, she | said to me that she was getting rath- | CT to like her new kind of life. I'm I not sure" she said, that I shall ever l go back to the other kind of ex- l istence."
 1 And she never did.
 | Of late a beauty of the ethereal 1 and delicate kind has come to be l specially admired, and there is a craze among very wealthy and fash l iOuabIe women to possess it, but, as l I have explained the only way in ] which woman can acquire it is by ] leading a life that to most women is , intensely disagreeable.
 There is, indeed, one other way by ! which this kind of beauty can be ! acquired for short while at all events ] and that is by the taking of certain ] drugs.
 1 This drinking for beauty is i not the same kind of drug-drinkins i that the public have been hearing ] so much Of lately, but it is akin to it., i and is quite as dangerous to the 1 health.
 People who are beauty drug i takers as often as not eventually turn to taking other drugs. One of the ! most beautiful ladies in society, who 10 SS N44VAAS OL A444llGF LOJrN u lfdAtlia
 certain drugs in order to acquire the 1 kind of beauty I have just described. l.
 Then she consulted me on the mat ter I positively refused to tell her | what these drugs were. She became i very indignant with me.
 You are afraid of spelling your
 own practice" she said, for if peo-
 pie were able to acquire the beauty
 they want by means of drugs you 1 would soon lose many of your pa
 tients.'
 In a Rest Home
 You may think so If you please, D
 I replied. but l most earnestly ad- | wise you to consult your own medical | man before you touch any of these
 drugs, I can only tell you that if you
 take them, though they may for @ ! time increase your beauty, they will
 ultimately not only ruin 1t but your 1 health as we'll"
 The last I heard of this lady was
 that she was in rest home. l knew
 what that meant; she was in a home | for people who are passing the border | land beyond which is insanity. The following story was told to ma
 by an intimate friend of one of the
 most beautiful women I have ever
 seen. This lady, may say, was no;
 a client of mine; she was in the habit
 of going to a Paris beauty specialist;
 I do not think that she ever went tc
 one in London.
 The Paris doctor told her that tc live amid beautiful surroundings had
 a tendency to preserve and improve womans beauty. This I may say is a weI-known theory among beauty
 experts.
 This lady followed the specialist. advice. She had a wonderfully beau
 tiful Japanese garden at her owr
 home, where she took to spending the greater part of her time. Wher the weather was suitable she would have all her meals in this garden and frequently she even slept in it. 1 When the weather was unsuitable
 for this life outdoors she would pas , her days in some of the conserva l tories. She left off going into so f ciety altogether. In a letter sh, , wrote to the friend who told me thi S story she said:
 T have come to feel that tn I beautiful plants and flowers anon, g which I spend my days have come t f know me. You may think me mad . I fear you will; but I can walk in m, l garden and talk with these beautiful @ companions of mine. We talk o
 things that you could not possibl q understand-an the companionshi 0 of these flowers makes me infnitei l happy; I take a glance back nov . with feelings almost akin to horro
 to the life I once 1ed-I think . must have been at some time a. Howe : myself
 n This lady fell into delicata health - as a matter of fact, she mad for sem n years a heart complaint, and I be $ lieve that sitting in the heated con servatories for hours, as she some d times used to do, made it worse. On II day she was found dead in her chai f in her Japanese flower garden. = (To Be Continuedl !, .l