Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-15

Yes said he.
80 ] made him tits dagger, fitting into his
arm-stump socket, lie sleeps in his dagger, and
finds it particularly handy when there are bears
about. Look at the action Of this spring and
rachet-elbow you have only to touch the little
button in the elbow, and the forearm closes as
natural as life. Who would wear an empty sleeve
when a member like this can be obtained ? We
always recommend our arm and hand patients to
wear a cloak neatly folded over it, as it prevents
auy attempt at hand shaking. We don't warrant
the shake-the touch isn't quite natural"
But how abou, the more delicate operations
eyes and noses 2"
"Oh, we do any feature at q moment, notice
Noses, for instance the best way is to bring a
patient to the modeler, who first designs the miss
ing member in clay after q portrait or from in
,tructions from this an india-rubber cast is taxi
en-, to which we fit on a pair of spectacles, to break
the flesh line and when the superstructure Is
complete, an artist puts in the complexion"
Aud eyes 2" | added, deeply inter ested.
Eyes we do not do so much n" he added
alphabetically. There is NJ. Buisenou, from
Paris, who travels with all the eyes Ct Europe
frcm the black Of Andalusia to tho blues of Scan
dipavia.
But how are they applied ?"
Easily as possible" he added, pulling out a
drawer add displaying the upturned gaze of wink
less scores. Let me see," said he, rapidly taking
up eye after eye, and comparing them with my
own. Light %gray-that's a good match, Now,
with this little ivory jimmy we pry the eye into it's
socket; the muscle being left, we &c. good motion,
81 H. u~.. T.. lI-xzoo oIa.ol
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 some
times walk about upon it, which looks odd"
"Ycu must see a vast deal of MANNED humani-
ty 2" said /.
And vanity, too" he replied. But l am
afraid must leave you, as l see there is q leg-be-
low-knee, two toes, and an arm wanting to see
me in the waitiDg-room, and there in the cab
we are near levee day,I suppose-it is the Honora-
Die Augustus Witherdman calling for his calves"
AS l walked homeward, my head full of the
subject | bad been dwelling upon, it seemed that
the artificial man met me in detail every where.
There were his teeth grinning at me in glass cas-
es outside the dentists ~shops-teeth in sets, with
the new paten. elastic india-rubber gums. warrant
ed equal to the living tissue, without the disadvan-
tage 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
hairdressers' windows, agsin doomed with deep
ton. Here, indeed, art has made u stride. The
old stereotyped form of wig with its sprawl
ing wavy curl of glossy black across the fOrebeed,
fanked with the fro,by 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 puritanical in its plainness, with a few
gray hairs %artfu!ly cast in see, again. what et-
forts have been made with the net parting, 30 sim
ulate the thin roofing Of the hair and, again,
how its setnng-on gradually fines of towards she
forehead. And what shall we say to those long
coils of gold which hang in such pendulous rich
ness these are the contributions of the poor Ger
man 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 ?
Wha, member is there in this artful age that we
eau uepenu en- as genuine ! wnat secret Douiiy
defect that that wicked "Timcs' does not show up
in its advertising sheet and tell US how to tinker!
And if the individual can thus c%raftily be built
up, imagine, good reader, the nightly dissolution.
Picture your valet taking off both your legs (such
things ale often done) carefully placing away
your arm. disengaging your wig, easing you OF
your glass eye, washing and putting by your mas
~ticatoIs. and. finally. helping the bare vital prin.
ciple 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
psalmist said. ~fearfully and wonderfully made
and, like the author of Frankenstein, we may
tremble at our creation. A. W.