The herald., 1896-08-14
Features May Be Changed by
Surgical Treatment
BEAUTY is PURCHASABLE
Though Not Yet Within the Reach
of All
Nose, Hay Be Altered to Sdit Their Owners
Taste ana Wrinkles Exchanged
for Dmpies


solve. Only couple Of decades ago il
would have ranked with the riddle Of the
sphinx, for, however q man might boast
himself able to carve out his own character
and career, tho last word as to his face was
supposed to rest with nature You might
object to largo mouths and tapping ears
and consider pug noses low. No matter;
she clapped them on you at her own sweet
caprice, and her action was equivalent to
"Nuff said"
There is quaint old story of medi-
mval king of France, who passed unflat-
tering comments in his royal mind ON the
personal appearance of n monk who was
assisting at mass in the chapel This
monks ugliness must have been of pecul-
iarly striking pattern, for the king-who
appears to have been deliciously frank
old fellow-could not keep his eyes off him,
until the monk came to these words in the
Psalter, ut is he who hath nadc us, and
not we ourselves" wheroupon the king,
rebuked, ceased to lay the responsibility
for his facial shortcomings on the unfor-
tunate churchman. How scandalizcd both
king and monk would be today to learn
that impious mortals had taken it on
themselves to meddle with their features,
and with the aid of the surgeons knife
and'the mysterious electrical spark have a
crooked nose changed to Grecian one, q
large mouth sewed up into rosy button
and the burrows plowed by age and care
spirited away ''for q consideration, az
Pooh Bah saysl Whatever the considera-
ton, it seldom daunts or dampens the
spirits Of the beauty seekers, who would
be willing to pay twice as much as they
now pay and undergo sharp pain in place
OF nero discomfort for the sake of not
knowing themselves when they look in
the glass after the surgeons knife has done
tho work on the offending features.
How much of the comeliness which may
be noted en- parade on Chestnut or Broad
street on any fire day was produced with
the connivance of nature and how much
in defiance of her intentions is one of the
things (which no fellah can find out !"
Even conservative Philadelphians are
awakening to the magnificent possibilities
of molding their faces according to their
own ideals Of beauty, and n larger proper
tion of society than is suspected owe their
good looks to the cunning hand of art; but
naturally the public is not taken into the
secret You meet your friend Jones,
whom you have lost sight Of for year or
two, and are puzzled to see that his crook
ed nose or squint eye has disappeared and
he is become quite capable Of upholding
the traditions of Quaker City good looks.
But, innocent that you are, you congratu-
late nature on her ability to right herself
in time and go on your way rejoicing at
tho metamorphosis Of Jones.
The modus opcrandi of some of these
transmogrifying processes is quite interest
ing. Take the nose for instance fea-
turo with which nearly every one has some
fault to find; witness the sarcastic proyerb
that such and such thing is ''plain as the
nose on your face" A Roman nose may
exhibit strong tendency to ''get up and
hump itsef," and what it called "the
hump operation" is performed An in
cision is. made down the center of the nose
and the hesh Held away by means of hooks
from the hump, which is skillfully drilled
away with q steel bur Which resembles the
engaging little instrument with which the
dentist htlzsos away at your teeth. Then
tho incision is sewed up, the place bandag-
ed and the candidate fer beauty takes his
nose home with him to nurse it for four
or five days, at the end of which time he
wakes up in the morning to find Himself
as beautiful as the possession Of pure
Creek nose can make any one.
Then there is the nose which, after it
has been euphemistically described as re-
trousse, "upturned" and ''tiptilted," and
after physiognomists have declared that it
leuds character to the countenance, re-
mains nothing more or less than plain
pug. Alittle triangular section of the
septum, which is the bridge of cartilage
which separates the nostrils and connects
with the upper lip, is cut out and tho
edges of the cut sewed together. When
they have healed and grown together, the
tip OF the nose no longer points the road to
heaven, but is brought down to the nor
NAL position. A nose which by nature or
accident is unduly depressed at the bridge
Is provided with an artificial bridge of
silver, the incision made for the purpose
cunningly closed up, and in a short time
even the scar is invisible to all save the in
quisitive eye Of a magnifying glass.
A noted surgeon who has performed
number Of these operations says that base
ball players form large percentage of his
applicants He says also that the proper
ton Of disgruntled visitors who want their
features remodeled is about equally divided
between the men and women, which proves
that Solomon was right and that all is
vanity without any distinction of sex.
but do not these artificial bridges ever
get out of order?" he was asked.
"Only once in a great WHILE" was the
answer, "and then it is usually peoples
own fault" which probably meant that
baseball players whose noses have been
provided with silver basis must swear off
on that delightful but dangerous game If
they wish to preserve the symmetry Of
their features.
That wrinkle business is especially mys-
terious and interesting The rows of hori
zontal ridges in the forehead, betokening
care; the cushion of frowns between the
eyes, which signifies crossness, either of
The eyes or the temper, and the two melan-
,holy lines down the side of the face, which
strike most anguish into the feminine
heart (as for man, he can hide them with
beard), are literally pulled straight, as
'ne smoothes the wrinkles in tablecloth,
oy an elliptical incisiop, which in growing
together afterwhrd draws out the furrowed
ines Even dimples, which the schoolgirl |
strives and fails to produce |
With q sharp Pointed slate pencil, are now
within tho reich. of those to whom nature !
ans, eEuelly denied them. A knife of nee
llclike dnenoss is introduced under the |
skim and o few. muscular Abers cut, the |
skin pressea down with the cavity thus |
'ormed, and presto, change, there is your
limple. and as NO scar ii left your dearest |
,neny cannot discover its artificiality.-l
Philadelphia Times.
Notwithstanding NIL TINT Roucsea,, hao