The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-06

HIS NOSE is MADE FROM A CHICK
EN-
The Triumph of Surgery Which Made
Chicago Man Happy.

a Chicago Man Happy.
Herman Wade was once a noseless
man. Now he is the proudest Cyrano
OF them all. He has had nose put on
him, and DR. j. T. Thoren, of the
county hospital, in the man who put it
on.
Herman has never been called a
chicken hearted young man by his
friends but now he cannot deny that
he is chicken-nosed. 1t was a chicken
that furnished the meat out of which
his new proboscis was made. Cackling
and suffering, a healthy young hen
gave up it's innocent life that a nose
might be made of it. Though the
chicken has departed and the part Of
it that is not nose long went the way
Of the frying-pan, the patient is doing
we'll, and soon will be seen on the
streets of Chicago allowing his new
facial feature to lead him into mischief
of all sorts.
Herman Wade Is delighted and ex-
presses his new pleasure in life in
extravagant terms. A real chunk Of
flesh with real skin on it, sticking out
between his eyes for him to look at
when he has nothing better to do, is,
he says, enough to make any man hap
Ply. 1t is as much superior to two little
holes in the front of his face. such as
he had before, as bunch of ripe
bananas is superior to piece of potato
peeling. His SMILES touch the highest
points of his experience. He feels that
now he can present himself as the equal
of his fellow-m men. He has received the
sublime privilege Of being able to poke
his nose into other peoples business
He can blow his nose with resonant
roar-ye gods, what joy He can lay
his finger on the side of his nose as he
makes a wise observation, and-if the
nose is not pushed out of place in the
act-no one will know but his remark
carries as much weight as that of any
normally nosed man. And then how he
can smell! atb
Herman has felt himself an unfortu-
nate all his life long, and if he had not
luckily met DR.. Thoren he might still
be going up and down the streets ours
ing the fates that made him as he was.
He was born noseless, not unnosed by
accident. When he was child his
condition bothered him little. As
youth he got used to having fun poked
at his flat-faced appearance. But
when he grew up he felt that noseless,
he could never be a success either in
love or in business. He dispaired even
of getting sympathy Cyrano and the
long nose had their De Rostand, but
who would be the poet Of the no-nosed?
So the doctor and the chicken and the
knife were hailed with joy. The
operation was Icing and complicated.
This is the story of it as nearly correct
as layman can tell it. First Herman
stretched himself out on his back and
the doctor cut little slit in the mid
die of his face where the nose ought to
be and turned the skin back.
Then he took fine young hen peeled
it under the wing, and laid bare the
flesh. Herman's face and the chickens
breast were put together. Bandaged
tightly, the two had to live together for
eleven days The chicken got the best
things to eat which the county hospital
had and every care was taken to pre-
vent it's dying. Before long even the
doctor couldn't tell where Herman left
off and the chicken began. Then
another operation was necessary.
Enough flesh for a good-sized nose
was cut off the chickens breast. Quick
ly it was shaped and moulded till 1t
suited the doctors artistic eye Then
over it was put a covering Of skin from
the mans breast. The work was done.
When Herman got over the effect of
the chloroform there was his nose wait
ing for him.
1t Is a pretty nose when the owner
lies still, but it is rather "wobbly," as
Herman puts it, when he starts to walk
around 1t hasn't acquired as much