| Show RED NOSES I I I There Are Four Kinds but Only One Sure Kemedy Many gentlemen of correct habits and I proper morals who arc members of the Young Mens Christian Association and I sympathize with the prohibitionists arc 1 afflicted with carminetipped noses of so 1 brilliant a lustre as to drive the casual i observer to the conclusion that they ar dissipated and abandoned reprobates j Nothing can be more disheartening to a l I man whose principles have led him to abstain totally from all intoxicating liquors titan to be pointed out as a horn ble example to the rising generation in the streets only because an inscrutable Providence has bestowed on him a red nose One of these unfortunate individuals individ-uals driven no doubt to desperation by the scorn of the temperate man and the jibes of the small boy whom he meets upon the thoroughfares of the metropolis yesterday advertised a follows in a daily paper A liberal reward will bo paidfor a remedy that wall cure a red nose on a person of good habits Dr William Stevens of No 28 Vest Thirtyfirst street was questioned upon these phenomena by a reporter of the Times Red noses said the physician may be divided into four classes There is the whisky red nose which is often cultivated by its owner with as much pride and attention as he devotes to the coloring of his meerschaum pipe Some men are proud of red noses just as others are of black eyes artificially blackbut these persons are not ornaments to society morally any more than they are physically physic-ally as a general thing Of course the only kind of remedy for this kind of red nose is to abstain from the use of alcoholic beverages I all depends upon whether a young man will sacrifice his appetite to his appearance The second class of red apparance cass nosesthe kind of a nose that may be associated with the features of a gentleman gentle-man who does not use liquor is produced by embolism that is by the stoppage w obstruction of bloodvessels in the end of the nose causing the blood to remain there This may be cured by pricking with long needles and letting the blood out Does it hurt Oh no of course not its a very pleasant operation like pulling teeth The third class of red nose may be called the cancerous diathesis nose which is caused by the cancer and can only be cured by the cure of the cancer The fourth class of these red nosesthe red nose that is most common to men and women of good habits as the gentleman gentle-man who advertises saysis the red nose clnose produced by superficial capillary circulation circula-tion in the veins and arteries just below the surface of the skin These arteries areres are so minute in their normal condition that they will not receive the red corpuscles cor-puscles in the blood and therefore no redness is appreciable when the arteries and skins are healthy The redness is caused by a disorganized condition of the capillaries The minute veins become enlarged and the red corpuscles are admitted ad-mitted and show through the skin The only cure for these noses is climate diet and exercisea regulation of the system I Some people whose noses are red in New York would find them the color of the rest of their skin in Florida or at the North Pole and the people whose noses are red in those places might find them cured in a climate like this The only sure way to cure any red nose is to adopt the plan of the gentleman mentioned hy I Sam Weller who cured his little boy of squinting by cutting his head ofliV I Y F Times I |
