Daily globe., 1882-10-05

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in bay form, and is lined inside with plate
glass mirrors. Suspended in the center of
the window by fine, almost invisible wires,
are two cork legs which, operated by clock
work, move in an up-and-down motion as
in walking. On shelves of thick glass,
supported by depending wires, is the Gu
rious collection that attracts the thousands
of passers-by. Noses, eyes, ears, joints of
limbs, all arranged in a certain kind of or
der. Above the shelves is this strange an
nouncement in gilt letters:
| '''''..'.'.. ....'....'.......'. 80.
LEGS, ARMS, NOSES, EYELAsKEs, &C.,
|: MADE AND RENEWED.
| :: PROF. h. w. WEIGHTON, Proprietor.
-....... .................... ......."
Pushing through the crowd that was col
| lected around entered and asked for Pro-
fessor Weighton.
gentleman behind the glass case re-
moved an enormous jewellers magnifying
glass that was screwed in his right eye,
scanned me carefully, and not detecting
the absence of a nose, or ear, or arm, or
leg, finally said:
II am Professor Weighton-what can I
do for you, sir?"
II wish to know, Professor. by what pro-
cess you renew legs, eyebrows and noses.
1t seems to me a rather odd and difficult
profession"
"It is dif6cult-you are perfectly right
as to that-but can not agree with you
that the business is at all odd. 1t is the
simplest thing in the world. Look. for
instance, at this nose am perfecting," he
continued, pointing to the curious looking
thing he had been cycling through the mag
nifying glass. This nose is almost in a
state of completion, yet I'll venture to say
you couldn't tell me what sort of nose it
will be, Grecian, Roman Or retrousse"
admitted that I would not have known
it was nose if he had not kindly in
formed me.
The Professor smiled proudly
II thought so,' he said. SPY tomorrow
Grecian noses you ever saw. See what a
for lady on Fifty-second street."
'How on earth did lady lose her nose?"
''It was a curious accident, which almost
rendered her inconsolable Her father is
a well-known scientist and inventor. While
watching an interesting experiment in his
laboratory few weeks ago she stopped
over to examine the eccentric of cog
whell. Being short-sighted she incautiously
bent too low. The wheel was revolving
rapidly-a siz and a whiz! and the nose
from the bridge down was shaved clean off.
The family physician was sent for, and
wanted to make a nose from the arm, but,
aside from the pain of, that operation, the
uncertainty of turning out a well-shaped
nose raised objections, and I was ordered
to prepare wax substitute
''Do you mean by natural meat substi-
tution' real nose of fiesh?" I asked.
| ''Certainly. The skin is removed, from a
certain portion of the arm, the proper
preparations made, and the arm then
bound tightly over the missing nose. The
flesh soon adheres to the face, then the arm
is detached and the nose is shaped. The
advantage Of this style of nose, while it
may not be so shapeiy as its predecessor,
is its durability. It Will never come off,
Now. wax nose will look very pretty,
and when her friends see Miss they
will probably be more than ever i'll love
with her beauty, but it doesn't last, and
will need constant repairing. It is scarce
ly SO good as celluloid. Have you ever
heard OF Poe's Story of the Wax Nose?'
Well, it may be exaggerated, but there is a
great deal of truth in it. Hiss B-could
never live in a very hot climate. Her nose
might melt. and would certainly SOFTEN"
This is very interesting, Professor
remarked, ''but is not your business small?
I do not recollect of seeing many people
with artificial noses.''
This branch of my business is not
large. We have, however, good deal Of
repairing on old noses. The demand for
legs and arms is steady and pays well. In
addition to the number of people needing
cork limbs, the limbs must 1be totally re.
newed every few years, and that keeps the
business up"
do you often have to fit ladies with
cork legs?"
II take their measure. Great decision
and care is necessary. Great skill is re-
quired to make the cork of exactly the
same size and length as its fellow. The more
perfectly this is done the less limping you
will observe
sAre ladies hard to please in the selec-
ton Of limbsS'
"a lady came to me once and ordered
| the foot of her cork leg d size smaller than
her natural foot. Her idea was to keep
the real foot concealed, and when oppor-
tunity arose to project her smaller and
more delicateiy cut pedal extremity to the
public view. Vanity is the strongest point
in some people. The operation of renew
ing eyebrows and lashes, for instance, is
not at all comfortable, yet you viii see
plenty Of people come here and submit TO
it, even though they are already tolerably
well supplied il those essentials. We use
real hair and needle so fine it IS almost
invisible. The hair IS threaded through
this needle and run through the skim
Il suppose this business Tor the most
part is confined to the gentler sex?'
''Not by any means. It is altogether a
mistake to suppose women more vain than
men. Not long ago had an order from
young man Of this city for three-quar-
ter-inch dark brown lash. It is positive
fact that that young fellow, even in an Or
dinary ten-minute conversation, will close
his eyes at least six times to display his
long. silky lashes. If you will step this
way will show you through our operating
rooms.'' and, entering door, the Professo,
led me through a suite of spacious apart
mentS.
A number of young women working al
, small tables, each table covered with little
, instruments and things, the like of which
I had never seen before. On some of the
, tables were noses in different stages oi
/ completion were just out of the
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