Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-31
NOSES MADE TO ORDER.
WARRANTED TO HOLD COLOR AND
 TO WEAR FOREVER.

WARRANTED IO F1OeO COLOR AND
 TO WEAR FOREVER. Chat with a Man Who Supplies Unfort-
 unate Peepls with Artificial Probes
 cIdes = Fingers and Hands Made to
 Order-An Artificial Soft Palate.
 "The discovery of xylonite has marked an era of improvement in the art of making false noses.n said a well known doctor. who proboscides V hen accident or the ravapes of disease have removed that very prominent feature.
 s'Before that time" he continued, Eve had to make noses out of rubber ant. paint them to the right color Rubber is not a flesh color, and when the paint began to scale off the effect was not at all good A rummy nose was a beauty beside one that needed a coat of paint But xylonite can be made to take the color very easily, and we get it in all shades of pink, to correspond with the tint of the face It is light and very hard. It is almost impossible to break it. See here, :" and he took blank of the material and dashed it on the floor with all his might, It was not in the least affected
 HOW A NOSE IS MADE.
 "For a nose," said the repairer of facial damages, i've find out which way the flesh and blood rose naturally curved. There isn't a man living, suppose, whose nose was exactly in the middle of his face We find out from his friends what it's proper appear ance was, and then we make a wax model as near like life as we can. A plaster cast is made of the model, and then the blank xylonite is heated so as to soften it and pressed into the mold by an Archimedean screw. That forces it into the proper place. It is then polished up and attached either to springs or a sponge cut button shape SO 1t will crowd into the cavity and hold on with enough force to keep it from falling out. If the flesh shall have become sunken around the nose so much as to cause the eyes to have a staring look, spectacles are worn to offset it. Of course yoy understand that this is not a practicable nose, as the stage carpenter would say. It is for looks only. Methuselah couldn't have worn out such a nose It will last forever, and that's as long as any one would want it," and the old doctor chuckled at his joke. "A body wants to be careful how he goes into rough and tumble fight with one of them on his face, for he might get his nose knocked off. He ought to holler: Here, you just wait a spell till put my nose in my pocket"
 Do you ever make artificial outer ears7''
 "Never had call for one yet They could be made all right, but to insert one would be to destroy the hearing, which would be too dear price to pay for the whistle.
 Fingers and hands, though, are often made. They are the hardest thing to get right. They gre made of the same material xylonite. The joints of the wrists and fingers are made in what mechanics call the uni versal joint. You often see people on the street who always wear a glove on one hand That is their artificial hand. The well made hand can closs up the fingers so that articles can be held almost as securely as with the natural hand. Usually only one articulation is made in the fingers, as it is very tedious to put in two joints. Artificial feet I have never made for patients, although they would be much easier than artificial hands.
 AN ARTIFICIAL PALATE.
 ''Here is something which might interest you," said the physician, handing the re- porter red flap of rubber, spatulated at one end lika-a -LA4--..,-- ----:l, and haar.i-o ----i, rivets at the other.
 "What's that7'
 ''That's an artificial soft palate. You know some people are so unfortunate as to be born with cleft in the roof of the mouth, which interferes sadly with their speech. All sounds which depend upon the breath being AASoO1 are unable to pronounce. These sounds are called nasal because they go through the nose Look in the glass with your mouth wide open, end you will see little tongue dangling away back at the roof of the mouth. This is the uvula, which is absent in those who have cleft palates. 1t helps in swallow. ing as we'll as in speech. Now, this artificial uvula is not the natural shape, as you see but is thinned out and spread out like fan at one end. That is so that it may res, against the muscles which would naturally move the palate. The other end of the piece is riveted to a plate, which is kept in the roo1 of the mouth either by suction or by springs "A queer thing about these cases of cleft palate is that the perception of the proper sounds of letters dies out as the man grow, older. A child in whose mouth an artifcia palate is attach soon learns to talk as ma turally as people whose palates are normal 1 But those who have passed middle life befor, they have ono put in have, it is said, to lear1 a language like French, where the grea prevalence of nasal sounds compels them tt notice their importance. Only in that way do they learn to speak English properly Talking about palates reminds me-" con cluded the doctor, sof the old fashioned styl of teeth. Before the material of which arti hcial teeth are made was invented sets uset to be carved out of what was called hippo potamus ivory. When was young man I can remember when there were only dozen houses here-when was young mal used to get front teeth for artificial plate from the old Indian burying ground. Tn teeth were very sound, and have know, them to be in use for over thirty years with out showing signs ot decay.-Chicago Mail l A Hoo fo fhe DTe,norv
 'There," said an old gentleman, transfer ring bloodstone ring from tho index fnge of his left hand to less conspicuous place s'I've managed to remember that little erran' and the ring can go back to the right finger.
 "I've a better plan than that" said a by stander "When I've something importan to do write myself postal card. My clerk
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