Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-16

10 you supply nngers ana such small
deer?" inquired
FINGERS too, nose, lps-we take them as
they come. A gentleman with one finger on
his left hand came To Us the other day, and
asked to have the complement made up. We
fitted on the rest clear of the ground"
Certainly it was an admirable contrivance.
And can man or woman progress easily
with that arrangment?" asked.
DO you know Lady -" said he.
Yes"
"Nothing the matter there he rejoined in
terrogatively.
was obliged to confess, not to my knowl-
edge.
That's her spare leg, nevertheless" he re-
piled triumphantly.
"Spare leg! what do you mean?"
Lord bless you! look into that cupboard.
/ have the spare members of half the town
there duly labeled. Things will 90 wrong
with the best conducted limbs; and to save
difficulties, we keep duplicates here which can
be applied at the shortest notice. A gentle
man, whom we will call Mr.. Smith, once lost
the pin out of his knee Joint, and sent here
for his off-leg. A young lad up from the
country sent him another Mr.. Smiths box
containing an arm-very awkward"
"Will you allow me?" said /, trying TO read
the names on the boxes
Certainly not" said he, shutting the door
and turning the key; ''ths is our Blue Boards
cupboard, and wouldn't even allow my wife
to peep in there. But come and look at our
hands"
There they were-some clinched, some
spread out, some in the act of holding, some
goved, and attached them by means of sig
net ring on the remaining finger-movement
perfect; you should see him pass his fingers
through his hair-natural as life. The hand
is wonderful thing-that beats me-legs are
mere A b G, but the hand Here" said he,
recovering from his momentary admiration of
nature, "here is drawing of a pretty thing
A Hudson Bay trapper had his hand bitten
Oft by bear, and came to us to replace it,"
"'Do you want something really useful?'"
"Yes,'" said he.
$50 / made him this dagger, fitting into his
arm stump socket. He sleeps in his dagger,
and finds it particular handy when there are
bears about. Look at the action of this
spring and rachel elbow, you have only to
touch the little button in the elbow and the
fore-rrm closes as natural as life. Who would
wear an empty sleeve when member like
this can be obtained? We always recon-
mend our arm and hand patients to wear a
cloak neatly folded over it, as it prevents
shaking. We don't warrant the shake-the
touch isn't quite natural
''But how about the more delicate opera
tions-eyes and noses?"
"Oh, we do any feature at moments no.
tice. Noses for instance; the best way is to send
patient to the modeler, who first designs the
missing member In clay after portrait, or
from Instructions; from this an India rubber
cast is taken, to which we fit on pair of
spectacles. l must leave you, as | see there
Is leg below-knee, two toes and arm wanting
to see me in the waiting room, and there in
the cab-we are near levee day, | suppose
it is the honorable Augustus Witherdam cal
ling for his calves"
As / walked honeward, my head full of the
subject had been dwelling upon, it seemed
that the artificial man met me in detail every
where. There were his teeth grinning at me
in glass cases outside the dentists shops
teeth in sets, with the new patent elastic India
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 churchyard sod at homel The
hair dressers window again bloomed with de-
ception. 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 frothy 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 few gray hairs artiully
cast in see, again, what efforts have been
made with the net parting, to simulate 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 pendu-
lous richness; these are contributors of the
poor German peasant girls to London fash
ionable life. Does my Amelia exc out her
natural tresses with 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 on as genuine? what secret bodily de-
feet that wicked Times does not show up in
its advertising sheet and tell Us how to tinker?
And If the individual can thus crattily be
built up, imagine, good reader, the nightly
dissolution. Picture your valet taking off
both your legs, (such things are often done, }
carefully placing away your arm, disengaging
your wig, easing you of your glass eye wash
ing and putting by your masticators and,
finally, helping the bare vital principle into
bed, there to lie up in ordinary, like dis
mantled hulk, for the rest of the night In
these latter days we are. indeed, sometimes,
as the psalmist said, feartully and wonderfully
made; and, like the author of Frankenstein,
we may tremble al our creation.