Show ARM NADE OF GLSS GLASS A NEW YORK MAN HAS A VALUABLE MEMBER reasons for the carroal material marvelous Marvelo oa mechanism in the interior small switchboard with electric HE use that glass is being put to nowadays are truly legion houses have even been built of that fragile material statues have I 1 1 I 1 I t been cast in it furniture of all I 1 kinds from beds to tables and an d chairs have been fashioned from it while for a long time past all sorts of surgical instruments and appliances have hae been made of it says the new york recorder without glass sir joseph listers principles of antiseptics and the present system of astep tic surgery would be well nigh impossible nothing can be so easily kept clean as glass and as cleanliness is the rey k pote pot of the marvelously successful surgery of today the modern modem operating room is a veritable crystal palace th the e 0 operating pe rating tables the instrument cases and often even the celing and walls of these rooms are all of purest polished plate glass glass eyes have long replaced the lost organs of vision and can be made so cleverly as to almost defy detection glass noses are even een made and if we go far back in history even een to the his tory of fairyland we would discover that the existing impetus to the glass ind sto dates back to cin debellas de rellas clippers of fabled fame I 1 but these are fin de siccle sie ie days and the most recent and at the same timp time most marvelous use glass glas his has been put pu to is in the making of artificial limbs there is a man in new york today a Dromi prominent nent downtown business man at that who so far as his friends or at least all but his most intimate and confidential friends know has two arms as good and as serviceable as an ones else whose left arm is made of glass the only thing so faras far is appear appearance anc are concerned concerned that would indicate in licate that tha anything is is the muter matter with w ith hn his arn arm is is the fact that ht hf carnei hi hit left hand in his pocket nv vr questioned about it he 1 c settle all io do by b simply answering anaw enus ii 11 he biml sal im subject to it if I 1 dont dor t I 1 ep cp c p m hand warm it gets chilled and I 1 alff r in consequence so I 1 keep it my m pocket all and the questioner usually goes away awa perfectly satisfied but the story of this aou wonderful darful glai gla i arm the only one in elisten e is well worth being told some years ears ago mr B y the gew gentleman leman in question was out shooting somehow or other the muzzle of the weapon became clag clogged up with sand and exploded when discharged mr B ys let left arm in the most fright frightful fIll minner inner he was taken to ins his uptown home borne and the most skillful surgeons suree ons summoned but bu to no avail the arrn arm had to amputated to save the man mans s life for symptom of blood poisoning Y developed to be maimed anti and an aa object of pity pit for the rest of one s life is anything an but pleasant and so soon as he was ivas able to be about mr 13 y set sail iiii for europe for his health it was ivas said but in reality it was in search of an arm A hu huge hue e ulster and bandai bandages s innumerable concealed the fact of f his 1 loss as from his fellow passengers until he had once reached his bis stateroom state room and there he remained until the end of the voyage the only persons who accompanied him were his young daughter daught fr a beati beautiful girl then 17 years ears old bu ba now one of the pets of the exclusive kocet 0 ety set of murray hill and one man this man is an inventor of national reputation and so far as the public was concerned went to europe simply for a holiday his name is as fam familiar ilar to the public as that of edison and his marvelous laboratories are in the heart of new york he had little to do with elther either mr or miss B y during the course of the voyage but a week after the arrival of the french liner at havre the i trio met at venice and the most skillful glassblower glass blower in that italian city was taken into their confidence the result was that some three months later mr B y returned to new york hale and hearty with two arms the hand of his left arm is never gloved unless its mate is also gloved and the closest scrutiny fails to reveal any difference between it and the natural hand and yet it is nothing but glass to within five inches of the elbow some time ago it was discovered discover dd that if a small quantity of oil were poured into molten glass tt it would greatly lessen its friability and make it very elastic and of this peculiar elastic glass is the arm made it has a dull r finish giving an exact appearance of natural skin and the coloring is the work of an artist and burned in the nails are of separate pieces of transparent glass fused into place and have to be kept clean like ordinary inger anger nails the arm itself Is hollow and the hidden parts above the wrist are colorless transparent iran glass it Is made tn three pieces the one reaching to the tha elbow the center piece to the wrist rast and the third the hand hancl |