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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume III, Issue 276, 26 August 1881, Page 3

WHAT FASHION WILL DO. Tin? evil* to which women submit in order that beauty of appearance may be secured tas old as tbo hills ; but the modes by eh this beauty is sought are as varied the object is universal. Periodically there are warnings against the particular form adopted ; thus we have at times heard of the horrors of belladonna, of chlorodyne, and can dc cologne when taken in excess ; but a more serious one is now affecting many—i.c., the pernicious one of arseniceating. A few years since the dangers to which persons were exposed by wearing and making dresses and (lowers of a certain shado of green, afterwards known as “ arsenic green,” were everywhere discussed, and so successfully advocated that the color disappeared even in the paper on walls. Now it is asserted that “ a list of f>oo names of ladies who are in the habit of using the drug regularly ” could be easily written oil'. In Victoria it is maintained that the habit is rapidly spreading, and that a practical chemist has for years noted down the persons met with the arsenic brand upon them. The object is to obtain a beautiful complexion, and for this a woman will take the poison daily, either pure, or as “ Fowler’s Solution.” After a year’s trial “a beautiful pallor is produced;” then comes reaction. In a few years the victim’s health sutlers, and she resolves to give up the charm. Nature revenges herself ; the face then becomes a livid red, and in despair, back tlie victim (lies to the poison. Perseverance brings back the paleness; it is no longer the clearness of alabaster, but the sickliness of chalk. Health is gone, paralysis follows, then death. Truly fashion has u load to bear. High heels are ruining the feet; tight pin-backs arc cramping the limbs ; the eyes are allectcd by the minerals in the many ‘‘washes” applied to the hair : small waists are bringjugdiseases innumerable in their train ; and pow poison is added to the list. Surely, jn the rage for equality of the sexes wo can find some women brave enough to outer a orusade against cosmetics, to make good health fashionable. Outdoor exercise, early rising, and regular habits will do more for a itooil complexion than any artificial solution.—Sydney Mail.