Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1917 — Seventeen, but Looked Eighty. [ARTICLE]

Seventeen, but Looked Eighty.

In 1909 a young girl, Louise Gasquet by name, living in Paris, is said to have met with a peculiar death, though-barely seventeen years of age. In appearance she was an old woman of eighty, her skin wrinkled, her eyes tull, her hair gray and scant. Every effort known, to science was tried to bring back her lost youth, but her cheeks grew more shriveled -and her eyes more sunken every day, until, a month after her admission to hospital, she sank into a deep sleep and "died wifhouraT sigh? mortem was in the presence of many English and Frencii doctors, and revea led the fact that the entire organization of the body had been attacked by nsenile decay, and£llibugh the girl was but a child in years, she had undoubtedly died of old age.