The Saint Paul globe., 1896-11-30

ton and the bumped shape Of the
bone rapidly disappears. 1t is ground
into a pure Grecian outline, and the
skin is carefully replaced and a band
| age put on.
Another month passes before the
| bandage is taken off. This time the
young woman is encouraged. She is
| charmed with herself, even though the
projecting jaw, the red hair, the moles,
freckles and blind eye remain. There
is another thin scar running down her
nose, but that does not amount to
much.
On her next visit her jaw is amputa-
ted. so to speak. A portion is cut out
with the result that upon her recovery
she finds that her lower teeth will fit
nicely inside the upper ones. Still she
is mot at home" to her friends because
much remains to be done.
The next operation is an exceedingly
important as well as an exceedingly
delicate one. 1t is very rare, and is
both difficult and dangerous. There is
samll white speck in the young wo-
mans eye, which utterly destroys the
sight The disease from which she suf-
fers is eenconla, or the formation of
cicatrici; tissue under the cornea Of the
eye.
EYES AMPUTATED.
The young woman is placed the sur
geon's operating table, and, as in former op-
erations ether is administered. The eye is
bathed in antiseptic fluid, in order to kill any
germs or material which might cause sup
puration. Then the operator takes cylin-
drical knife, which may be worked by either
clockwork spring or by electricity.
With this knife, which is an extremely
delicate instrument the white spot in the
cornea is removed and a piece Of the cornea
of a rabbits eye; of exactly the same dimen-
sions, is placed in the opening. The eyeiid
is then drawn down tightly and the eye ban
daged.
After this operation more than a month
elapses before the bandage is removed. Even
then a bare glimmer of light is admitted.
Eureka! The white spot is gone and the
bandaged eye is as dark and liquid and ex-
woman cannot see very well with it, but for
| the purpose Of conquest and firtatious
| glances it is very effective.
The face is now entirely remodeled. The
| high cheekbones are gone, the prominent
nose has disappeared and the lower jaw is
round and beautiful. But there are yet the
scars and wrinkles to be attended to. To get
| rid of the latter the surgeon resorts to
! plastic operation. He makes a horizontal IN
| cision about an inch long through the skin
| just at the hair line of each temple. A sec
| ond incision is then made a little lower down.
| forming an ellipse The intervening epider-
mis- is then cut out.
The lower end of the skin is then brought
| up and fastened, and once more the young
| woman goes home to recover and to ruml-
nate. But the wrinkles gone.
| The next operation is that Of eradicating
| on either cheek bone, one on the chin They
| do not amount to much in the way of dis
| figurement but the young woman would
| rather be without them. So back she goes
again to the surgeon.
This operation, like most of the others, con-
| tains the element of electricity. It's use pro-
notes the absorption of the cicatricial tissue,
| and after week or so the scars have entire
| ly disappeared The moles next disappear
under the influence Of the electrolytic needle,
which also shapes the eyebrows into things
| Of w DESTROYING the hair fOllcloS
| where the brows were too heavy
By this time the subject is fascinated by
| her new personality and longs for the time
| when she can dawn upon her old friends as
handsome daughter of the gods.
There yet remains two serious obstacles to
such dawning-the freckles and the red hair.
away with the miniature ginger-snaps scat
| tered over her face leaving her complexion
as fair and soft as childs.
DIMPLEs, OF COURSE.
The red hair requires no surgical opera
| ton. 1t is softened into deep rich brown by
arts that are known to every woman; But
| still the girl does not seem satisfied. When
| ever she looks in the glass, which is almost
all the time, she wonders II further improve.
| ments cannot be made. Her teeth? Why, OF
| course. They are white as snow. but they
are so crowded that she appears to have too
| many. One in particular is a sort of tusk
that imparts a sneering look to her mouth.
| 1t is extracted in short order and appli-
| ances are inserted in the overlapping teeth
to fill the gap The operation is a decided
! improvement The girl is now decidedly
| beautiful. The instinct of her soul, the in
stinct peculiar to her sex in all ages, has
been gratifed She now has an air of con-
| fidenee when before she was awkward and
| difident
Nature could scarcely have done more for
her than the surgeon. One day, however,
the young woman paid another visit to the
doctor fWhat in the name Of goodness do
| you want Row?" he asked.
| "a dimpfe' was the reply.
| "a dimple; why, Of course. 1t is strange
! that we did not think of it before. Just the
thing to put finishing touch to your coun-
tenance. You are quite pretty enough al
| ready, however,.
| Of course the young woman blushed and
the blush meant that she agreed with the
1 DOCTOR But she wanted a dimple, and she
| meant to have one. She wanted one in her
| right cheek just where dimple ought to be.
and the surgeon, after adjusting the light,
| requested her to smile. 1t was pretty
| smile but it had no dimpie in 1t. Neverthe-
less, It showed where the dimple ought to
| be. The surgeon marked spot on her cheek
IN the line Of a curve.
electricity, he pierced point inside her
| mouth. corresponding to the marked spot
| outside. The electrical needle destroyed the
| tissue Immediately under the epidermis.
| which shrinking into the destroyed tissues,
| formed as pretty dimple as was ever seen
in the cheek of baby.
| Had the sugeon SO desired, he might have
manufactured the dimple In different man.
ner He might after bathing the cheek in
cocaine have taken a knife, sharp only on
the end, and cut slight angle through the
skin and folded it back After this he would
| have removed an elliptical section Of the
flesh which upon healing, would have formed
very pretty dimple. OF course. the seal