Show The patent office on December granted a patent on a device worthy of the ancient Greeks It is a system of fingering tapering and reducing joint-reducing bands The idea is to make thimble thimble shaped shaped bands of thin and pliant alum alum- num in sets of various sizes to fit the fingers and thumbs and by wearing them at night gradually produce the blender slender and tapering digits so much admired by the fashionable half of the world The Trie aluminum bands are provided provided provided pro pro- vided with rings which are crowded down on the outside so as to compress the fingers and drive the blood back to any desired state The lett patent letters patent rs-patent do not state whether the use of the new device is attended with pain or not |