Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-11-02

winkless scores. "Let me see," said he, rap
IDLY taking up eye after eye, and comparing
them with my own. 'Iight gray-that's a
good match. Now, with this little ivory jim
my wepry the eye into its socket; the muscle
being left, we get good motion, and the decep-
ton is perfect. A lady once closed her good
eye and went up to the glass to see her false
one. There is one little drawback, however,
you can wipe away a cold tear perfectly, but
as the eyeball itself is not sensitive, the flies
sometimes walk about upon it, which looks
odd"
'You must see vast deal of manned hui
mainly z" said |.
And vanity, too" he replied '"But am
afraid | must leave you, as L see there is leg.
below-knee, two toes and an arm wanting to
see me IN the waiting-room, and there in the
cab-we are near levee day, l suppose-it is
the Hon. Augustus Witherdam calling for his
calves"
GAS l walked homeward, my head full of
the subject had been dwelling upon, it seem.
ed that the artificial man met me in detail,
everywhere. There were his teeth grinning
at me in glass cases outside the dentists shops
teeth i'll sets, with the new patent elastic
lndIa-rubber gums, warranted equal to the
living tissue, without the disadvantage of
growing gum-boils, How many fair danes
smile at us whose flashing worries have lain
for years on continental battle grounds, or
may be under the Verdant church-yard sod at
home. The hair dressers' windows again
bloomed with deception. Here indeed art has
made a stride. The old stereotyped form of
wig with its sprawling wavy curl of glossy
black across the forehead, fanked with the
frotlly bosses Of curls on either side, leaving
the hard skin line to disclose the bungling
hand OF man-this is gradually giving way for
higher efforts Mark, for instance, that wig,
so pnritanical in its plainness, with few grey
hairs artfully thrown IN see, again, what eff
forts have been made with the net parting to
stimulate the thin roofing Of the hair; and
again, how its setting on gradually fines off
towards the forehead. And what shall we say
to those long coils of gold which hang in such
pendulous richness these are the contribu-
tions of the poor German peasant girls to
London fashionable life. Does my Amelia
exc out her natural tresses with these shining
snakes of glossy hair! Does my maiden
aunt Bridget hide the gradually widening part
ing OF her once raven locks with that plated
coronet? What member is there in this art
full age that we can depend on as genuine
what secret bodily defect that that wicked
Times" does not show up in its advertising
sheet and tell US how to tinker?
And if the individual can thus craftily be
builtup, imagine, good reader, the nightly dis
solution. Picture your valet taking off both
your legs (such things are often done) care
fully placing away your arm, dsingagng your
wig, casing you of your glass eye, washing
and putting by your masticators, and, finally
helping the bare vital principle into bed there
to lie up in ordinary, like a dismantled hulk
for the rest of the night! In these latter
days we are, indeed, sometimes, as the psalm
list said, tearfuIly and wonderfully made; and
like the author of Frankenstein, we may
tremble at our creation.