The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-09
APPENDIX AS AN ORNAMENT
New Jewel Fad Has Flying Start in
New York

new YORK
New York, May lone of the
striking features of Miss Regina Col
denbug Doughbags costume at the
wedding was that her bridal veil and
orange blossom wreath were caught
up on her pretty head by a golden
jeweled appendix clasp. the gift OF
the groom. Lord Deucedly de Kayed
There was added sentiment in that
the appendix was his lOrdships very
own. At the time il was removed,
about four years ago, he had it plat
ed with gold and set with diamonds
and had tenderly laid it aside to be
the gift of the future mistress of Ram
shackle hall, the family seat"
You may read something very like
this in the society notes of the near
future. says the World, and If you do
1t will be true. In fact the appendix
jewel fad has had a flying start al
ready, Miss Vera Cornell, who lives
with her mother, Mrs. Lillian d. c.
.Curnen in the Dartmouth at No. 500
Cathedral Parkway. is wearing hers
as watch charm right now
Her appendix first was turned into
silver and then heavily plated with
gold (having first been taken out of
course,) and now swings jauntily at
the end of a slender gold chain, its
graceful fishhook form having a decid-
eddy art nouveau decorative effect.
Just where the pendix is linked to
the chain there is engraved upon the
unique article of jewelry Vera Cor
nell' in Roman letters. 'Tis a dainty
thing
Miss Cornell's girl friends and even
the more mature friends of her moth
er, Mrs. Curnen, all admire the appen-
dix charm. Many of them are stead
lily swallowing orange seeds and olive
pits with a fondly anticipatory eye on
the operating table and the ultimate
achievement of an appendix watch
charm or veriform brooch.
It is famous little joke of the doc
tor, after he has shipped your appen-
dix out of your system, to display 1t
in a bottle and say: "Ah, there's the
little wretch" or There's the en-
emy!"
In this case DR. Carleton Dederer of
No. 500 West 127th street, young
surgeon, said to Miss Cornell: would
you like to have your appendix back?"
II should say mott" she retorted.
When next you see It, you will,
said he with a smile
He would say no more But when
next she saw it she did like it back. It
was a thing of dull gold, appearing
much like a freakily shaped nugget.
DR.. Dederer kindly detailed to a re-
porter for the World the processes
by which pale, wicked appendix may
be transformed into an object of art
and ornament.
81 first prepare a strong solution of
pyroXolin," he said, Gin which | dip
and wash the 'pendix repeatedly. That
turns 1t hard as wood. | join a small
piece of copper to the appendix and
place them in a solution of silver cy-
anide, while galvanic current is run
! through them continuously for per
haps two days. The current causes
the silver cyanide to permeate every
part and the silver segregates every
atom in the tissue and surrounds it
completely The appendix is thus
turned to silver.
Minute microscopic examination
only could detect the difference be-
tween an appendix so treated and a
solid piece of silver This can be
highly polished and is itself, of course
very decorative.
81 had Miss Cornells appendix gold
plated because ! thought that would
please her more. She certainly was
pleased"
Gould any portion of the human
body be so treated?" he was asked.
ITO be sure. 1t is simply a scienti-
ic method of Fastening petrifcation,
except that 1t turns the live tissues
! into metal instead of stone"