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December 18, 1905
The Chickasha Daily Express
Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma
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Historical article from New York Herald detailing inventive devices for correcting physical flaws: enameled papier-mache noses on spectacle frames, clothespin-like nose taperers, mouth line improvers, galvanized rubber mouth roofs, tongue cleaning knives with sponge brushes, and nighttime wire masks with screws to create dimples.
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Many Contrivances to Aid Unfortunate Homely Ones.
The best artificial noses nowadays are made of papier mache, enameled. Such a nose is fastened to a spectacle frame sometimes for the sake of convenience, and thus may be put on or removed at brief notice. There is a patented contrivance, somewhat resembling a clothespin, for attachment to the nose to give to the organ a proper taper. Another device is supposed to improve the lines of the mouth.
Not a few people have no roofs to their mouths, having been born without any, or in other cases having lost them by disease. For such unfortunates artificial mouth roofs, made of galvanized rubber, are furnished.
There is a patented device for cleaning the tongue, consisting of a knife with a concave edge to which a sort of sponge brush is attached. When one is not well one's tongue is liable to be disagreeably coated, but the annoyance may be removed by means of the instrument described.
If you desire dimples you may wear a certain kind of wire mask at night to which are attached blunt wooden points that may be caused, by the help of screws, to press upon the points where the dimples are wanted. Thus after a while the dimples are made to appear. -New York Herald.
The best artificial noses nowadays are made of papier mache, enameled. Such a nose is fastened to a spectacle frame sometimes for the sake of convenience, and thus may be put on or removed at brief notice. There is a patented contrivance, somewhat resembling a clothespin, for attachment to the nose to give to the organ a proper taper. Another device is supposed to improve the lines of the mouth.
Not a few people have no roofs to their mouths, having been born without any, or in other cases having lost them by disease. For such unfortunates artificial mouth roofs, made of galvanized rubber, are furnished.
There is a patented device for cleaning the tongue, consisting of a knife with a concave edge to which a sort of sponge brush is attached. When one is not well one's tongue is liable to be disagreeably coated, but the annoyance may be removed by means of the instrument described.
If you desire dimples you may wear a certain kind of wire mask at night to which are attached blunt wooden points that may be caused, by the help of screws, to press upon the points where the dimples are wanted. Thus after a while the dimples are made to appear. -New York Herald.
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
Medical Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Recovery
Misfortune
What keywords are associated?
Artificial Noses
Mouth Roofs
Tongue Cleaner
Dimple Mask
Physical Aids
Patented Devices
Story Details
Story Details
Description of various patented devices to aid people with physical imperfections, including artificial noses, mouth roofs, tongue cleaners, and dimple creators.