Just how much or in what manner a woman ought to adorn herself is a personal question. If she wears diamonds abroad to the sacrifice of comfort at home it is none of the public’s business. She should be queen of her boudoir. But when in the effort to retain or secure good looks she brings about her own death her story should be told for the benefit of her sex and kind. Two fatal cases of blood-poisoning from the use of “beautifying” mixtures have come to light within the last few days. Miss Alice Lamont, of St. Louis, bathed herself in some quack ointment and shortly afterwards died from lead poison in the blood. Mrs. Kate Griggs has just died at Long Branch from the use of an “anti-fat” medicine. She confessed to have taken eighteen bottles of the stuff within ten months. If those who seek to help nature along with cosmetics and drugs do not find a warning in such cases as come to the surface it may be well for them to further consider that there are scores of similar cases of which the public never hears.
~ The Lititz Record, 02-Sept-1881, Page 2, Column 1
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