A HUMAN CHAMELEON.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1198, 1 July 1884, Page 3

A HUMAN CHAMELEON.

There lives at the present time in the town of Springfield, America, a young girl who, if what is related concerning her by the local papers be true, would be a valuable addition to the show of any Barnum fortunate enough to acquire her. She is a muJlato, or ought to be ; but it seems that the color of her skin is constantly varying T froih "dark brown to snowy white, then changing back again to its natural color. Tin's extraordinary young person is the daughter of a workmau in easy circumstances, and it is seriously said that there is no imposture practised. The transition is accomplished by the appearauce of successive white spots on the skin, which gradually cover the whole surface. A reporter of an American paper, who has visited the girl, describes her appearance during the unaccountable transformation as most striking, one cf her feet being at times as it is natural for a colored girl's to be, whilst the other is as white as a lily. So with the hands and the face -the effect in the latter produced by the different hues of skin being most singular. Sometimes the whole face is white, except the eyelids, which retain their original color ; but quite as often the face is entirely brown, the eyelids alone being white, which, when the lids are closed, give the girl a most " unearthly startling appearance." The phenomoncn has _ been examined by all the medical men in the vicinity, but the mystery, if mystery it is and not imposture, baffles them.