Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-03-30
MAKING THEM WHOLE
Poor People with Missing Members
Supplied Free.
strsnee Requests Made of a Chari-
table Association That Supplies
Artificial Limbs, Glass
Eyes, Etc.

Eyes, Etc.
81 don't know whether / ought to
| buy this man wooden leg or not"
The secretary of the Association for
the improvement of the Condition of
the Poor was pondering: The last
man / bought one for was so happy
that he had to celebrate; and he cele-
brated so hard that he got into row
and the leg was smashed before morn
ing. Seventy-ive dollars gone to splin-
ters within IL hours!"
There was shade of humor in the
lady's meditations, even though the
subject was not merry one, says the
Philadelphia Ledger.
Artificial limbs seem to have bad
moral influence some way" she said,
with some sadness. when i supply
the missing portion of mans anat-
omy he almost always has to go and
celebrate. The last time / bought a
man a glass eye he did the same thing.
He was an educated man, had been a
| professional man in his day; and after
he had been rejoicing over the new eye
| for a little while, his chiyalrous in
! stincts prevailed, and he decided that
he must come up and show me how
nice it looked. He came" She
paused and shook her head mourn
fully He was very happy" she con-
cluded simply.
The purchase of SIS or 500 arti-
| fetal limbs seems rather expensive
outlay for charitable association,
but when recipient cannot be. self
supporting without it,. it is perhaps
the wisest charity. A mans chances
at money-earning are sopainfully re-
duced by any deformity that perhaps
he can be excused for celebrating when
the deficiency is supplied. At least
the association thinks SO, and at one
| time or another it has furnished al
most every member of the human form
divine.
The other day one-legged man
drifted in with a strange tale of woe.
Twenty years ago he left the city for
the west. After serving his time at
knocking about, he had acquired a
III hOu ldud. nc Lar Ill w DIS
not particularly valuable, and when.
about a year ago, he got chance to
sell it, he did so, and resolved to use
his little capital by returning to the
east and getting into some small busi-
ness. He had barely started, with his
little stake in his pocket, when he was
run over and smashed nearly to bits.
Taken to a hospital in a Montana town,
he was made pay patient, it was
minus one leg and most of his money,
and when he emerged, eight months
later, he adhered to his original plan
and continued his journey, though for
what reason he himself cannot tell.
With no relatives, and his old acquaint-
ances scattered or forgotten, he
turned up alone and friendless at the
society's doors and asked for a
wooden leg. He had little money
left, but he did not dare use any of it,
as he felt he must keep something to
live on, and yet without the leg he
could do nothing for a living.
| Then there was the man who hao
his hair all burned off his head His
scalp healed, but his hair absolutely
refused to send forth a single tendril.
| With head bare and smooth as bill
lard ball, he found it impossible to
get a job, employers either believing
him too old or refusing to have him
around, on account of his appearance.
He grew so sensitive over the matter
| that he refused even to go to the asso-
citation rooms, because he would
have to take off his, hat to the ladies'
But he sent his wife to state the facts
in the case and petition for wig. The
wig was bought, the man got job,
and, happily, refrained from 'cele'
brating."
A young woman found herself in the
| same predicament. All her hair fell
out in severe attack of fever, and
when, after long time, it began to
come in it stood out perfectly straight
and stiff from her head The store
where she had been employed had re-
served her position for her, but her
appearance attracted so much atten-
tion that after awhile they told her
she would have to go. The association
bought her a $15-wig, and it proved
efficacious, for within six months she
was married
One struggling widow who was keep
ing together a family of four or fiv
children placed her false teeth in a
glass of water one night. before retir-
ing. The children had little dog
which, as ill-nourished as the rest Of
the family, and having more appetite
than sense, found the teeth in the night
and chewed them up. The secretary
smiled, but she bought the widow
new set of teeth.
How could the woman eat if she
had no teeth?" she inquired Sand
how could she work if she could not
eat? There are people marked down
on charity books to-day as incorrigi-
bly, lazy who got there through dys-
pepsia caused by bad teeth"
An artificial nose, for man who
| had been deprived Of that useful mann