The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-31
A WAY THE JAPS HAVE.
SHOWN IN THE MATTER OF MAX.
ING ARTIFICIAL LIMBS.

Limbs Still the Best In the World.
"Will the Russo-Japanese war cause
any increase in the demand for Amer
ican artificial limbs?' was asked of
New York maker of such appliances.
mot bit" was the reply, "or not
In Japan, anyway. Whatever artificial
limbs the Japanese may require they
will buy of their own makers.
I'VE have sold some artificial limbs
in Japan" the New York manufactur-
er continued; 81 guess about fifty alto
gether. The first one we ever sold
there was supplied TO Japanese no.
bleman, who was also Of high rank as
a state Official, and who lost leg by
the explosion of a bomb thrown at
him by an assassin at the time of the
Chino-Japanese war.
This leg gave its wearer great sat
isfaction, and subsequently we sold to
him duplicates of Il; the first and last
we have sold to various purchasers in
Japan, as ! said, about fifty artificial
limbs altogether but now the demand
for them has wholly ceased. for the
japanese are now making their own.
I'VE print a catalogue, which is real
ly book of several hundred pages,
and which contains, besides q cata-
logue of our productions, treatise on
artificial limbs and their uses and in
formation concerning them. It is H.
lustrated with cuts of artificial limbs
and of various other appliances which
we produce. We send these catalogues
all over the world.
Some time age We received from
Japan a reprint of our catalogue, done
in Japanese, put out there by a Jap
anese manufacturer of artificial limbs.
He sent a number of copies of this
book and offered to send us more IL We
desired them"
This japanese reprint of the Ameri-
can catalogue is, like the original, a
book Of some hundreds of pages, and
it is bound in boards. 1t is printed on
thin japanese paper, and in japanese
characters.
In this japanese reprint many of the
drawings of the original are also repro
duced, the work on these. however, not
being SO well done as 1t might be. But
the hook contains, bound into 1t, q
number Of leaves of plate paper, on
which are printed half tone portraits.
these including pictures of some Jap
anese wearers of artificial limbs, and
including also portrait of the found
er of the American concern whose cat
alogue is thus reprinted.
'In fact" said the New York manu-
facturer, they gave us in the book the
very fullest credit in every way, but at
the same time they wrote us that they
considered the making Of artificial
limbs a humane enterprise, and that
If they required further information
concerning the making of them 1t
might be that they would write to us
for it. And if they do, ! dare say that
we shall send it TO them.
Fer their example in reprinting
our catalogue is one not likely TO be
followed, and the japanese trade is
lost to us, anyway. American arti-
fetal limbs are the best that are made
in the world anywhere. In lightness,
in the ingenuity of their construction
and in adaptability to their uses they
excel all others, just as, in their respec-
tive ways, do so many other Ameri-
can inventions in the construction of
which ingenuity and skill are involved.
But now, with artificial limbs made
in their own country, the Japauese'wil
buy no other. For they are an intense
ly patriotic people, and however good
ours may be, and whether their own
may be good or bad, the japanese re-
curing an artificial limb will buy one
only of japanese make.
But this does not apply everywhere.
There are other patriotic peoples who
patronize their own, as, for example,
the Germans. And in other countries
they may, so TO speak, dissect our
limbs, take them apart to discover and
reproduce their eXcellences, but they
are not likely to go to the extent OF
the japanese. And, after all, ours re-
main the best, and we will sell them
all over the world.
''ln many far countries, when any
body has need for an artificial limb,
he sends for it TO where he can get
the best, and so he is likely 10 send to
the United States; or. If he was OF
European birth or descent, and SO with
natural inclinations in that direction,
1t might be that he would send TO
France. SO We get orders from every
where, only yesterday, for example, we
received an order for an artificial leg
from an interior city Of British India.
And, with these sales added to the
business done in our own country, we
have all the business We can cOnven-
iontly do, and SO, when we take into
account all the circumstances, we are
not disturbed by the reproduction of
our catalogue in Japan"
"You spoke of the japanese noble
man subsequently ordering additional
limbs-duplicates. Do people that
have occasion to wear an artificial limb
commonly own more than one?"
Some men have dozen, and It
would not be remarkable for a man TO