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Show NEW NOSE FOR A YOUNG WOMAN Surgery has made such rapid strides within the last decade that It Is Impos slhle to predict where Its limit Ilea as was again llltMtraled at the Clly hos-rltal hos-rltal jeaterdij In a few das when the friends of Miud Traier visit hr again, thej will scarcely recognize her In the comely girl artistically rejuvenated rejuvena-ted by the surgeon's skill Maud Krazer was a prettv Rlrl but for ont feature, and that was her nose When admitted Jut a week ago from her home at UK Lynn street, Cincinnati, Cincinna-ti, that prominent adjunct to a pretty face was all p , In early Infancy she became allllcied with catarrh, which In Its Intensity caused the nasai hones to decay, nnd as the necrosis developed they had to be temoved "Strongp to say, the outer skin was never nffected, but as the mainstay the hrldftn and cartilage wasted away the nose (lnnlly collapsed like a balloon fiom whlih the alt was exhausted So little suppoit did it have that nt length It only became be-came an appendage that would flop from side to side as she turned her head It was for the correction of this unsightly defect that she entered tho hospital, willing to undei go any form of tortuie In Its repair. Wliero the nose has been eaten away by a malignant disease, such as camei, surgeons long ago have found a remedy In skln-grnft'ng. In Mlas Frnzers case, howevet. it was nccissary to blow It up, as It were, und to restote it to In naturul tontour. A ptactlcal knowledge rather thin surgical skill was here necessary nec-essary to devise the means, und tho staff physician In charge of the case haa both He decided to resort to paraffin, par-affin, the same artklo fiom which candles can-dles aie made, Only In this cuse tha useful product was atetlllzed and puil-flcd puil-flcd that It mlUit cany no dlseaao germs with it After It had undergone this process It was reduced to a seml-llquld seml-llquld fonn nnd kept so over a legula-ted legula-ted lamp When all was ready foi tho operutlou the gill's face was also cate-fully cate-fully sterilized nnd then an antitoxin syringe was brought Into requisition Filled with parallln the netdle of tho syrlhge was then Inserted under tho skin Just where the eyebiows divide and the paianin slowly Injected be-twett be-twett the skin and tissue blow Iy the bulbous noac began to fonn Into Its foiniei contour, und after the third Injection In-jection It looked like a well-developed nose, aquiline, nnd without Its former defects With his othnr hand the surgeon sur-geon kneaded nnd shaped It until Its form was perfect nnd the operation was completed In less than twenty-four hours the paraflln will huve hardened to the consistency of tho cartilage that occupied oc-cupied tho Bpaco before, und to all Intents In-tents and purposes Miss Fiarer will hive a shapely nose for tho rest or her clays -Cincinnati Dispatch to Chicago Chronicle |