NOSES MADE FROM SHINBONES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 542, 15 February 1913, Page 2

NOSES MADE FROM SHINBONES.

+ UP-TO-DATE METHODS OF FACIAL SPECIALISTS. Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Beauty is knocking at your door. In fact, judging by the prophecy oi Dr. Hans Kersten, the well-known medical specialist of Berlin, the time is coming when every woman will be beautiful, a nd men will stand a mazed at the brilliant charms of every member of the opposite sex. Says the worthy doctor : "Skilful surgeons are already able to replace missing organs, such as ears and noses, so perfectly that no scar is seen. That being so, they can reduce or increase the size of any facial organ, and, as all beauty is symmetry, the most misshapen face can be transformed into a likeness ol Apollo. And the artificial beauty may be of the highest type. It is quite an easy matter to reduce exceptionally big ears, unduly distended nostrils, straighten a crooked nose, and take away all blemishes of the skin. Radiant liquid air, frozen carbolic acid gas, electricity, when properly applied, are all beautifiers. The woman of the future will be the radiant daughter of these miraculous forces of Nature." BEAUTIFIED NOSES AND MARRIAGE. Already, however, scientific skill has been applied to remedying Nature's defects in a wonderfully successful manner. Another German doccor, for instance, Dr. Jacques Joseph has made quite a reputation on account of the manner in which he reconstructs ugly noses. "I remedy every day." he said a short time ago, '"by operative means,' defective aoses of various kinds. Noses from which, by Nature, illness, or accident part or nearly the whole is missing. I build up the nose from the inside, after delicate use of the knife, by injecting either liquid or solid paraffin or by fitting in a piece of the patient's own shin-bone. Crooked noses can also be straightened from within, without leaving any semblance of scars on the outside ; and almost every week I get engagement-cards 0 t men and women ex-patients, who, long denied matrimonial bliss on account of repulsive noses, now describe mc as the architect of their newfound happiness." The use of electricity as a beautifier, mentioned by Dr. Kersten, has produced some wonderful results. By its means impared complexions can be restored, wrinkles can be eradicated, and dimples produced. It is also largely used in the removal of what is commonly known as the port-wine stain, although meny people believe that it is impossible to remove this blemish from a person's features. , WONDERFUL APPLIANCES. The appliances of beauty spci.-lis's are really wonderful. Ons of he latest is an apparatus with a eericn of thumb-screws for making tli-finger-nails a better there, is an elaborate face and taock mask for removing wrinkles, a'd a chin strap which drives away that nightmare of many womsn—a double chin. Equally remarkable is the slight operation by which beauty doctors are able to beautify the ears. This operation, which is practically painless, and in which only a little cocaine or any local anaesthetic is required, consists in removing from the back of the ear a small wedge-shaped piece of cartilage and skin, so that when the edges are muted the ear can be pulled back into its propel position.—"Tit-Bits.''