The San Francisco call., 1896-04-26
HER MEGAPHONIO EAR.
Right OF Young Woman Who Under
went AuricuIar Repairs.

Miss Zury Knox, the daughter of a
prominent citizen of Yoakum County,
Tex, was in st. Louis yesterday on her
way to Chicago, where she will consult a
surgeon who treated her last summer, and
endeavor to have him remedy an unfortu u
nate mistake he made in an operation at
that time that has resulted in much pain
and discomfort of a mental and physica
character TO the girl
Miss Knox is a most beautiful young
lady. Her figure, as it is suggested by her
neat blue gown, is almost perfect. Her
complexion is dream of white and pink,
and her hair is as a tangled knot of silke en-
golden thread. She is brilliant converse
tionist, proficient musician. and an
artist Of no mean ability. But an injury
she sustained when Z years of age by being
thrown from the back of a pony she was
riding cast black spell on her life that
only her sunny nature has enabled her to
withstand.
When she was thrown from the pony
she alighted on the ground in such a way
as to pull half of the upper portion of her
right ear entirely off and so lacerated the
remainder that most of it was later cut
away by surgeon in Dallas. When the
operation was completed and the wound
had healed she had only small amount
of the ear left, but she easily disguised the
Disagreement by the way she dressed her
hair. Up to year ago she paid no par
ticular attention to it, as the hearing was
not affected to any extent.
Last April. while on visit to Galveston
with her mother, she met young lady
from Chicago with whom she became
quite intimate. The Chicagoan became
aware Of Miss knox's unfortunate condi-
ton and at once enthusiastically advised
hQt fha Toy erir RI 70 lff,ip aud
suit surgeon, who, she alleged, could re-
place the missing ear by grating pro-
cess. Up to this time Miss Knox had not
thought particularly about accumulating
a new ear, but the constant talk of her
Chicago friend made her long for auricu-
lar apparatus like other people wear. The
upshot of it was that she went to Chicag 90
in August the operation was performed
and she returned to her Texas home with
an ear which, while it was not nearly so
dainty and pinky as its mate, did well
enough for bluff.
Shortly after she got home the new ear
began to grow, and it has been growing
ever since. About once week the young
lady is attacked with most acute pains in
the recently acquired member, which she
describes, as closely as she can diagnose
the matter, as similar to the 'growing
pains" that affect boys and girls when
they begin to lengthen out. The ear is
growing every which way and does not
seem to have any life in il.
TO Republic reporter who was allowed
to view it last night it looked like slice of
dried apple about as large as John L. Sui
llvan's hands. Recently Miss Knox has
been forced to adopt new style of dress
Ing her hair, which requires her to comb
the greater part of it down over the ear.
giving her head sort of iop-sided appear
ance. She does not know where the sur
9geon got the ear or to whom it belonged
before he grated it on to her. All She
knows about it is that it cost her lot of
money. She is going to Chicago to find
out more about it.
Another peculiar feature about this ear
Is that she can hear sounds with it that
are totally undistinguishable to other peo.
pie. Seated at one end of the grand hall
on the second floor Of the station last night
she could plainly hear whisper uttered
at the other end, despite the roar of traffic
on the street and the noise ascending from
the midway below.
1T seems as though every sound that
comes to this unfortunate right ear" she
saio last night, sis magnified a thousand
Times. continually hear roar like that
liaue q. oy Thousand steamboat whistles.
AT nome my room is carefully padded.
ana all openings are fixed with view to
exclude sound, and still / have to sleep
win my right ear full of cotton. for the
swish OF pony's tail in the corral or a
Gnange IN the cadence OF my fathers snore
III the next room will awaken me. | have
not slept since | left Texas, and hardly
tnink l Will sleep again until I see the
surgeon and either have my auricular
monstrosity repaired or cut off. | would
rather be as l was before with no ear at
al, thsn as am now with this fan grow
ing OUT OF the side of my face. You have
no ioea oI the worry it has caused me. 1
VIII hang down on my shoulder so that /
can hear people Think