Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1917-09-14 | Page 3 | Seventeen, but Looked Eighty

Seventeen, but Looked Eighty. In 1909 a young girl, Louise Gas-quet Gas-quet 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 dull, 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, hospi-tal, she sank into a deep sleep and died without a sigh. A post mortem was held In the presence of many English Eng-lish and French doctors, and revealed the fact that the entire organization of the body had been attacked by senile decay, and, though the girl was but a child in years, she had undoubtedly undoubt-edly died of old age.