Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-11-22
SCIENCE APPLIED TO RED NOSES.
There arc Four Kinds, but Only Cs,e
Sure Kennedy.
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
Many gentlemen of correct habits and proper
morals, who are members of the Young Mems
Christian Association and sympathze with the
prohibitlonists, are afflicted with carmine-tlpped
noses OF SO brilliant a luster as to drive the
casual observer to the conclusion that they are
dissipated and abandoned reprobates. Nothing
can be more disheartening to man whose prin-
ciples have led him to abstain totally from all
intoxicating liquors than to be pointed out as
horrible example to the rising generation in the
streets, only because an inimitable Providence
has bestowed upon him red nose. One of these
unfortunate individuals, driven no doubt to des-
peration by the scOrn of the temperate man and
the jibes of the small boy whom he meets upon
the thoroughfares ct the metropolis. Yesterday
advertised as follows in q daily paper:
A LIBERAL REWARD WILL BE PAID FOR A
good habits
DR.. William Stevens, of No. IS West 31st
by reporter of the Times. Red noses" said
the physician, may be divided into four classes
There is the whisky red nose, which is often
cultivated by its owner with as much pride and
attention as he Gevotes to the coloring of his
meerscilaum pipe. Some men are proud OF red
Roses just as Others are Of black .ees-artifci-
ally blacN-but these persons are not ornaments
to society morally any more than they are phys
NoiIv, as general thing. Or course, the only
remedy for this kind of red nose is to abstain
from the use of alcoholic beverages. 1t all de-
ponds upon whether a man will sacrifice his ap-
petite to his appearance. The second class of
red noses-the kind OF a red nose that may be
associated with the feature of gentleman who
does not use liquors. produced by embOiism
that ls by the st0ppage or obstruction of blood
vessels i'll the end of the nose causing the blood
to remain there. This may be cured by prick
ing with long needles and letting the blood out
Does it hurt? Oh, no, OF course not it's very
pleasant operation, like pulling teeth
The third class of red nose may be called the
cancerous dathesis nose, which is caused by
cancer. and can only be cured by the cure of the
cancer. The fourth class OF these red noses-the
red nose that is most common to men and wo-
men Of COED habits as the gentleman who adj
Vertises sayS-lS the red nose produced by sll-
perflcial capillary circulation in the veins and
arteries just below the surface of the skin. These
arteries are 50 minute In their normal condition
That they UiH not receive the red corruscias in
the blood. and therefore no rcdncss is appreca-
be when the arteries and skin are healthy. The
redHess Is caused 10y ds0rganiZed condition OF
the ca1iliaIi"S. The minute veins become en-
larged and The red COrpGscleS are admitted and
show through the skin. The Only cure for these
red noses are climate, diet, and exercise "a reg
uiatlon OF the system. Some people whose
noses are red in New oris would find them the
color OF the rest of their skin i'm Florida or at
the north pole. and people whose noses are red
In th0s" places might find them cured in eli
mate Ike this. The only sure WAY to cure any
rel nose is to adopt the plan of the gentleman
mentioned by sam Weller. who cured his little
boy Cf squirting by cutting his head off,