The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-11
A cELLuLo1D o s
How a San Francisco Dentist Repair
the Ravnges OF Time.

How . Sam Francisco Dentist Repnareo
the kavngcs Of Time.
A Kearney street dentist, who Is u
thing but old in years or his profession,
has performed the difficult artistic job OF
supplying a horribly disfigured human
face with an artificial nose and upperflp.
A reporter who had heard that the OPP
Grafton was to be performed called upon
the skillful practitioner and requested
permission to witness the achievement
of science. The dentist consented &c
crafty his visitors curiosity, and stated
that the patient was a Chinese woman
whose nose and upper lip had been de-
stroyed by cancer. "She will be mere
in a few moments" said the dentist, and
almost Immediately the woman entered,
accompanied by a man in Chinese attire
whose face offered incontrovertible ev1-
| dence of an admixture of Caucasian
| blood. The woman held O handkerchief
| to her face until she had taken her seat
in the operating chair, when she re-
moved the cloth and displayed a counte-
nance -inexpressibly horrible. She had
been once good-looking beyond the de-
gree of comeliness usually displayed by
the Chinese women n sees In Galifor-
MIA, for her cheeks were round and her
eyes rather shapely. The disease had,
however, not only deprived her of o nose,
but had destroyed her upper teeth and
| left the bones bare and surrounded by
frightful cicatrices that ran through the
corners OF her mouth and up the bridge
of the nose toward the eyebrows. 10
make such a face presentable seemed
an impossibility, but the task was per-
formed speedily and successfully. The
nose and lip had already been nodded IN
celluloid from o plaster cast of the face,
sented a most hfe-ike appearances. The
dentist in molding the nose had to de-
pend entirely on his imagination, and
had modelled a thoroughly Asiatic one.
The artificial lineaments having been
prepared, there remained only the inter-
esting but difficult feat of attaching
them. In supplying artificial noses it is
customary to attach them by spectacles,
but in the Chinese woman's case such
an arrangement would have been inpos-
sible, owing to the great size of the dis
fgurement caused by the loss Of the lip
by attaching q gold spring to the upper
Jaw in the manner In which single teeth
are affixed. The spring ran up to where
1AC O1AQSO u LAX AOcO o11Ou1o uF 0CCh,
and to this spring the artificial nose and
lip were attached by an Indiarubber
loop. The combined pressure Of the
spring and the. India-rubber drew the
celluloid mask so close to the face that,
being nodded to fit the cheeks, it would
have looked quite natural but for the
lack of that transparency which living
tissue possesses. While the woman'f
c~ountenance was in repose, the effect Of
the work was remarkably good, and the
!. transformation which it effected III hel
looks was SO great that she eagerly seized
the mirror offered by the dentist, and,
} looking at her reflection, she uttered ar
exclamation of surprise and delight. She
/ give the practitioner a handful of ten
dollar pieces, and trotted off with hel
h~alf-caste escort, filed with a satisfaction
, at parting with wealth seldom shown b.
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