The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-06-28
SATURDAY, JUNE %, 1873.

done. The enameling was, of course, ap
parent ON examination, bat l. doubted if any
casual observer would have detected it
Certainly the woman might have walked
about the streets from morning till nigh
and no one would have suspected that SHIT
had a very bad black-eye. The artist sale
that it was paihtea just at the right time
The swelling Of the flesh had all subsidized
and Consequently there would be no need 0
a second painting, as is the case when tht
bruise is very recent. 1 had supposed thai
the woman had got damaged the night be
fore, but. in answer to my inquiry on this
point, she told me that her "eye" was thret
days old. On consulting the looking glass
Mary was considerably surprised at first
but her surprise soon gave way to express
sons of delight. She declared that SHE
could believeit, and asserted that she haC
never looked so well in her life before.
+" really look quite nice and handsome,
she said. I'D like to go and have my
portrait took now i'll had the money"
/ laughed heartily. 4 could not help it
for Mary was as unpreDossessing specimen
of female lovlness as one often sees. He
vanity recaAed to me Mr.. Saxe's epigran
"on an ugly person sitting for a daguerreo
type" q 81
Here nature in her glsss-the wanton elf
Sits gravely making faces at herself;
And while she scans each clumsy feature Ger
Repeats the blunders that she made BEFORE"
paid Mary one dollar, the price she hat
stipulated for, after much haggling for allow
ing her eye to be painted for my amusement
n nd obi L
As | handed The accomplished artist his fec
of five dollars he handed me cigar, and
while l was lighting the cigar, took the
liberty of making nesor two impertinent
inquiries about his strange business
DO you have much of this kind of work
to do?" asked
"Oh, yes" he replied al generally have
two or three sittings day. Some ladies
come to me regularly. I-have one lady pa.
iron who has a very ugly scar on her temple
She comes to me twice week, wet or dry
to have it filled and enameled."
Why she must be valuable customer
to you" 1 said.
We'll, she pays me so much quarter"
care there any other members of your
profession who paint human faces?" ! asked
Only KNOW Oh one, he repHe0, ana
he doesn't amount to much. Nearly all
first-cIass drug-stores keep an assistant who
can paint out black-eye." ..s.....
Indeed !" | remarked.
YES" he rejoined. But they're not
artists. Their work is very badly done
easily detected, and lasts no time. 1t re-
quires real artist to do the thing we'll and
effectually. Why, if that woman is careful
the pigments have put on her face will moi
wear off till all the discoloration has disap
peared. They will last at least fortnight
My artist then mentioned to me the
names of several of the leading drug stores
in the city where eye-painting is done, as
tonishing me no little at the estimate he
gave me of the number of faces daily ds6g
ured among the young men of the upper
classes. thanked him, for his information
and courtesy, and took my leave; and, as
wendell my way downstairs, l quoted t.
myself James Russell IOwell's lines
" But John P. Robinson he
Says they don't know every thing down in JUDGE.
-Appieton's Journal