The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-06


medical institute last week. and many
were the subjects who paid allegiance in
the hope Of becoming ApolloS apd PSyches
The desire % an men. and especially wom-
en-. 10 be favored IN appearance was Wen
shown IN the gathering. together with
the most modern methods OF science 10
accomplish the end. Here is the result OF
the observations made by reporter for
the Sunday Post:
Ii was a remarkable gathering. People
who thought nature had not shaped their
ends with divinity came in fhrongs. ard
sofne went away with skins frightened INTO
the senhlance OF youth. some with en-
hryo sfimples hidden under Swsliings ana
p.asser, Others with Brohfignagian ears
scaled down 70 IdlIiputiaa dimensions. and
still Others with the strange sense that
their noses no longer intercepted their
vision.
Half the new women-nlade over new
sent forth from the beauty shop wehs
away with the lurking fear that their
friends wouldn't know them. and the
rest went confidently. expecting compH-
men;s on their appearance. All went with
the reiterated Injunction: Don't let on
10 a soul that I've been here
The first patient TO submit to the knife
in Difference 20 vanity was a comeiy young
woman of 70 years. with great dark eyes
that seemed conscious they were there
that peculiar color that suggests medica-
tion. Nature had been kind 10 her in the
matter of looks. but, in the young wom-
ans opinion. had tripped up on the chin.
The bony structure was decidedly square.
but the fieshly covering was pointed. She
wanted her chin squared so that the two
would harmonic.
They're misfits my lower jaw and its
casing" she said. as she took the operat-
ing chair. ''They tell me The Jaws Gothic
and the covering's-I don't know what
IL is, but i want 1t changed. just cut
enough off 10 make IL square. now. doctor.
and in a few months. when my friends
have gotten used 10 the sauareness. I'll
come in and have a iimple put in in place
of this point That's been my pet ambi-
ton ever since / was put in long skirts.
You're not going TO hurt me-" she added,
apprehensively. as the surgeon laid an
assortment OF scissors and knives on the
bosom of her dress.
Does Not Hurt Much.
Not Bit" said he, consolngly, "and
IL We do there'll be no extra charge for
IT,"
The doctor treated the chin with cocaine
till sensibility had been destroyed Then
he cut horizontal cash In the chin about
three-quarters of an inch long. and. lay
ing back the skin. he proceeded to pick
out the fatty tissue with n common pair
of nail scissors. An attendant stood by
constantly wiping the patients neck and
chin with moistened cotton.
That wiping process is a very useful
deception. admitted the doctor, soto
voce. 1.-The patient never knows whether
it's blood or water she feels chasing over
her skin and IL she asks OF course it's
always water. We save ourselves lots Of
Mysteries that way. Dmples," he con-
tinued. addressing himself to the young
woman, ARE very simple affairs. All that
Is necessary is to cut away the fatty It's
sue in a spot and sew down the skin again
so that it adheres 10 the muscular tissue
underneath. The fatty tissue remains In
tact all around the incision but ii can't
again grow where the skin has become
attached 10 the muscles. And there you
have your beauty spot"
And they're worth the price" muir
INJURED the young woman. I'm afraid
you're too skimp with that cocaine. You
hurt on the left side
There isn't much left of your chin
now" said the doctor. reassuringly, and
he put three stitches in the wound and
turned the patient over 20 the assistant
10 be bandaged up. That's the csm-
monest sort of an operation nowadays -
he continued ITS a trick nature plays
herself sometimes, and We've recently
learned how TO supply natures omissions
And IL takes with the women
The first thing the young woman did
on getting up may be surmised easily
She asked for a mirror. The first thing
she said on consulting the glass was that
she couldn't see the difference
I'm going to tell mother / slipped and
cut my chin and had to come here and
have it sewed up she said on leaving
IF mother comes down here to make in
quiries you are to know nothing about
how ! slipped. You're only to testify to
having sewed up the wound"
FIN Neck HoiIows.
The next patient was a middie-ased
woman going TO get married and bound
Tor Europe, The patient had erater-Iike
unsightly depressions on either side of the
neck just back of the jaw These de-
Fressions she wanted filed up and coy-
cred with skin that would not be a hu-
initiation TO one laying claims to beauty.
1t was a case of grating
Denude the bones anywhere YOU like.
provided its under the clothes" said she
before taking the ether but be sure Won
select good pieces to put on the sides OF
my neck. ia give a little fortune to be
made young-looking and beautiful
Skin-gfafting II very common opera
tion." said the maker OF beauty. hut 1,
mas commonly been supposed that the skin
alone could DE transferred from one part
or a body TO another or from one body
to another. II Is perfectly feasible 10
transfer also generous quantity OF the
Underlying tissue. That's lust how
SHAH treat this case. In short. l shall lust
remove the skin from these cepressious
and set IN a piece OF skin with sur
hcient subsirafum OF feshy tissue from The
leg It's turning the anatomy little bit
sopsy-turvy. but as long as the woman
Keeps her own counsel spectators I'm aa.
miring her neck viii never suspect they
are being fooled
tho patients neck was literally skinned
and from the fexhy part OF the leg a
portion that would have satisfied shy
lock was cut. There vas a suggestion Of
bntchefx In the operation. but the sur
Seon said the patents never minded that
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