BECAME A SULPHIDE.

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 30, 3 August 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

BECAME A SULPHIDE.

It is a well-known fact that the constant use of cosmetics has an injurious effect upon the skin, and sometimes leads to paralysis. People who use them may not, perhaps, fare as well as did the lady mentioned in the amusing anecdote related below. A certain Parisian belle, who had acquired the habit of whitewashing herself, so to speak, from the soles of her feet to the roots of her hair with chemically-prepared cosmetics, one day took a medicated bath. On emerging fiom it, she was horrified to find herself as black as an Ethiopian. The transformation was complete. Her physician was sent for in alarm and haste. On his arrival, he laughed immoderately, and said — " Madam, you are not ill ; you are a chemical product. You are no longer a woman, but a sulphide. It is not now a question of medicinal treatment, but of simple chemical reaction. I shall subject you to abath of sulphuric aoid, diluted with water. The acid will have the honour of combining with you ; it will take up the sulphur; the metal will. produce a sulphate, and vte shall find as a precipitate a very pretty woman." The good-natured physician went through with his reaotion, and the belle was restored to her membership with the white race. Young ladies who are ambitious of snowy complexions should remember this, and be careful what powders and cosmetics they use — if they use any atall.; "' '"' ". :. ' ' , • : "