Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1890 — The Enfant Terrible. [ARTICLE]

The Enfant Terrible.

This really occurred three days ago in this city, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. A lady from Chicago was visiting the family, and it so happened, owing to a chapter of accidents, that the lady oi tbe house met her guest for tbe first time at tbe dinner table. The hostess is partial to powder, and in the evening increases her natural pallor with its assistance. After tbe conventional embrace tbe lady from Chtargw vaiii; “You must have bad a very tiring day, Mrs. Blank.” * “Yes, indeed. I have, dear, ad I feel very fatigued.” “Yes —I never saw you look so pale before.” “Oh. that’s powder.” broke In the fl year-old enfant terrible, Miss Nellie, whe bad not been n spectator in her mother'* boudoir tor nothing. Gunpowder could not have exploded with greater force. Mine. Castanet, a lion-tamer, entered the cage at Brussels recently to separatt a lion and a hyena who were fighting, and although the lieu had formerly been much attached to Iter, lie then threw himself upon her and mangled her terribly and probably fatally before the attendants could rescue nos;