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 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 we'll as an exceedingly
delicate one. 1t is very rare, and is
both difficult and dangerous There is
a samll white speck in the young wo-
mans eye, which utterly destroys the
sight. The disease from which she suf-
fers is cencoma, or the formation of a
cicatricisl tissue under the cornea Of the
eye.
EYES AMPUTATED.
The young woman is placed on the sur
geon's operating table, and, in former op-
erations ether is administered. The eye is
bathed in antiseptc 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
a clockwork spring or by electricity.
delicate ts instrument en The the white spot in the
cornea is removed and piece Of the cornea
of a rabbits eye. of exactly the same dimen-
sions, is placed in the opening. The eyelid
is then drawn down tightly and the eye ban
daged.
After this operation more than month
elapses before the bandage is removed. Even
then bare glimmer of light is admitted
Eureka! The white spot is gone and the
bandaged eye is as dark and liquid and ex-
| pressive as its healthy neighbor: The young
woman cannot very well with it, but for
| the purpose of conquest and 1irtatious
| 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 a
| plastic operation. He makes 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 little lower down,
forming ellipse. The intervening epider-
mis- is then cut out.
The lower end of the skin is then brought
! I'D and fastened and once more the young
woman goes home to recover and to rum1-
nate. But the wrinkles are gone.
The next operation is that of eradicating
| the scars. There is one on eacn temple, one
| 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. Its 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 beauty by destroying the hair follicles
| 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 a
| handsome daughter of the gods.
| There yet remains two serious obstacles to
| such dawning-the freckles and the red hair.
IN month certain lotions have entirely done
away with the miniature ginger-snaps scat
| tered over her face, leaving her complexion
as fair and as soft child's