ARTIFICIAL NOSES. The Abnormal Proboscis which belonged to a French Senator.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 171, 25 September 1886, Page 7

ARTIFICIAL NOSES. The Abnormal Proboscis which belonged to a French Senator.

Artificial noseß are generally attached to 'faces by spectacles. About five years ago a San Francisco dentist made for a Chinese woman, whose face waß horribly disfigured, a celluloid nose. The organ was attached 'by a gold epring to the upper jaw, in the manner in which single teeth are affixed. The spring ran up to where the bridge of the nose fhould have been, and to this Bpring the artificial nose and ' lip ■were attached by an india-rubber loop. 'The combined pressure of the spring and india-rubber drew the celluloid mask bo cloee to the face that, being moulded to fit the cheeks, ii would have looked quite natural but tor the lack of that transparency which living tissue possesses. Of course, our funny paragrapher had to have his say after this bit of news appeared. , He -at once boldly stated that a man out Weet had a cork no*e. " Wheu he' keeps sober," eaid the writer, "it gives him no trouble! 'but when be is out drinking with friends they want to borrow it for a stopper;every time they lose their corka out of their flasks." There is a true story of a French Senator, a very handsome man, who had a large nose of which he was somewhat proud. He was once riding in a train, when a child, who was in the game carriage, and who had watched the statesman for gome time with dilated 03*68, began to cry as if its heart would break. The mother could not coneole it. The little one was afraid of the Senator's big noee, and the mother quietly explained that her child , bad just come from the masquerade, wh,§re ho had been particularly excited by jthe large noee3. She concluded by requesting the statesman to take off his nose, ,',' for you, I see," eho explained, " for some good reason best known to yourself are prolonging the carnival.*" The ■ Senator pro^efcted that he could not accommodate her,, assuring the lady that bis proboscis was not a false one, but his pwn «' Touch,it," said he.l The lady gave a pull at the Senator's nose, but it did, 1 not.come off in her hand. '' A, thousand. , pardons/ she said, " but .prayVpb.,' pray hide it with your hat!" The distinguished statesman complied .with'this singular request, conlioued his journey with his nose in his hut, and^he ohild's screams subsided, t — .orookjja jv)agazme Jr -^ _ , , ;^ .

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