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Show IKS IIS PIPE ; I II I H WAY I Los Angeles Man Uses a Hole H in His Neck for the H Purpose. c U - m BREATHES AND SMOKES M BY INCISION IN THROAT Now Makes. His Living as' a l Museum Freak; Likewise M at Peddling. Calmly smoking through a hole in his neck and apparently enjoying the 11 tobacco as much as any smoker who MB uses the weed in hc usual woy,4Wil- II liam.Silverstein, a fTcbrew peddler, was seen at his home, 715 Ducommun street, in Los Angeles. "Yes, I cnjo3' smoking despite the fact that my method of using tobneco is a little unusual," said Sflversteiu, "and T do not know what I should do without my pine. "1 can smoke by placing iny pipe-in pipe-in my mouth, but 1 have become' eo ac-customed ac-customed to smoking through the hole in my nock that I seldom smoke in the H usual way. "This'holc in my nock is the re- II suit, of hp operation I had performed H in a hospital in New York eight j'ears II ago. I suffered from bronchitis at the H time and was told by the ph.ysicians H that the onl' way fo save my life ' H was in have an operation performed I H on my throat. They told me thnt in H rnre cases did the patient live. Thov H gave nit' somo hope, however, and X H consented to allow them to operate. ' BroatliSs Through Hole. H "When f cntne from under the physi- H cian's care1 1 found that a hole nearly .S an inch in diameter had been cut ifl through the front of my neck and that 'jfl a silver tube had been" run through it il'fl so as to keep it open at all limes. ifl "I soon found that T could breathe ill through this hole with the greatest JB ease, and one day I placed my pipe in the opening and found that I could smoke through it and enjoy the to- H "Not long afterward I met a man- '1fl ager of a museum and be was greatly H surprised when he saw me smoking 'jH through my neck. He -offered me a po- H sition in his museum, and as I had been , jH unable to work and needed money, I : accepted. "For nearly five years I smoked in H tho musoum and then 1 found that I 9 was so weak that T would have to give H up the place. I consulted a physician H and ho told me 1. would have to come H to California if 1 wished to live, as the H weather in the East. v'as too severe for JH A Museum Freak, ill "Tt took all the money 1 hod saved ill during the years I was in the museum '-!M to bring my wife and four children to rfll Los Angeles, but we came. That is .IW throe nfonths aco now and I have been 'Kl unable to secure an3 work since com- SI ing here. VI "T have tried to do a little, peddling, tfll but 1113 voice is failing mo so that after "MM I talk a few minutes no one but my ' 'SH wife can understand mo. )D "My children aro all too .young to H work, " and mj- wife is unable to do -MJ anything. I have only one way to f JH make a living and that is to go on some HJ museum stage, and it is probable I will HJ j do so in the near future." WM |