The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-10-06

apologetically. There is M. Boisenou, from
Paris, who travels with all the eyes of Europe
from the black of Andalusia to the blues of
Scandinavia"
But how are they applied?n
Easily as possible" he added, pulling out a
drawer and displaying the upturned gaze Of
winkless scores. Let me see," said he, rapidly
taking up eye after eye, and comparing them
with my own. "Light gray that's good
match. Now, with this little ivory Jenny we prize
the eye into its socket the muscle being left, we
get good motion, and the deception 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 hu-
manity?" said /.
"And vanity, too" he replied. "But / am
afraid l must leave you, as see there is a leg
| belowknee, two toes, and an arm, wanting to
see me in the waiting room, and there in the
cab-we are near levee-day, / suppose-is the
Hon. Augustus Witherdman calling for his
calves"
AS walked homeward, my head full of the
| subject had been dwelling upon, it seemed to
me that the artificial man met me in detail
me in glass cases outside the dentists shops
teeth in sets, with the new patent elastic india
rubber gums, warranted equal to the living It's
sue, without the disadvantage OF growing gum
boils. How many fair danes smile at US, whose
flashing worries have lain for years on continen-
tai backgrounds, or may be under the verdant
church-yard sod at home The hairdressers'
windows again bloomed with deception. Here,
indeed, art has made stride. The old stereo-
typed form of wig, with its sprawling wavy curl
of glossy black across the forehead, fanked
with the frothy bosses of curls on either side,
leaving the hard skin line to disclose the bun
CLING hand of man-this is gradually giving
place to higher efforts. Mark, for instance, that
wig, so puritanical in its plainness, with few
gray hairs artfully cast in see, again, what eff.
forts have been made with the net parting, to
simulate the thin roofing of the hair; and,
again, how its setting on gradually fines off to-
wards the forehead. And what shall we say to
those long coils of gold which hang in such
pendulous richness these are the contributions
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 parting of her once
raven locks with that plated coronet? What
member is there in this artful age that we can
depend upon as genuine? what secret bodily de-
feet that we particularly desire to keep to our
selves, 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
built up, imagine, good reader, the nightly dis
solution. Picture your valet taking off both
your legs, (such things often DONE care
fully placing away your arm, disengaging
your wig, easing you of your glass eyes, wash
ing and putting by your masticators, and, final
ly, helping the bare vital principle into bed,
there to lie up in ordinary, like dismantled
hulk, for the rest of the night In these latter
days we are, indeed, sometimes, as the Psalm
ist said, fearfully and wonderfully made; and,
like the author of Frankenstein, we may trem,
BILE at our creations. Aw.