More Craoked Brained than over.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3655, 6 November 1890, Page 2

More Craoked Brained than over.

According to F«m the ladies, of Paris liaye recently adopted a fashion of a'more than usually ..crack-brained dewrtytioi), ;N?t cofltept with

i peifuniiug their clothes and their .they now actually scent their and blood. The practice, we are told was started by r lady who ia in the habit of lining morphia injeotiona. .Shejioticed, after a particularly strong : r ? • injection, that her .whole body waß ■ v distinctly perfumed with morphia, Out of curiosity she put a few drops'of_ patchouli into the syringe, and ■ in jected it, and was dolighted to find herself immediately porvaded with a -- strong smell ol'patchOulis Enchanlfld with her discovery,-she determined to ■ - keep it a secret, for ; her , ! j\iße ..alone, But 'her '-maid had on ejß to., business, ;and----in a few : days a "subcutaneoua.perfume fcyjinge'.was to be. found on-every toiletto table,. The fashion, however, ■ ' has turned out a dangerous one. Several ladies havo become ill, some from,infusing impure perf-imes into the blood,- , and others using extracts which are poisoa* ous. . It is Baid: that., the Paris doctors intend to petition the-Legisla- 'Jf turn to make the practice punishable. The dootors may. gain; their desires, but something r,» mentiiry.statute,is necessay;to ■ cart conviction, jo a .-/lady's wind: - wb'erej*fashioa is concerned, Lovel- wiipaa is,alas, very wilful,-