Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-10-06
Caricatures.

1t is serious thing for public man to
fall into the hands of a caricaturist. If
he happens to have any little popularity
of costume or person, it is sure to be ex-
aggerated and reproduced without limit.
The London Punch has made the whole
world acquainted with the hair cork
D'Israeli, Prime Minister of England;
and Mr.. weeds two, round eyes are
telerably familiar to the American pub
lie, through the persistent attention of
the illustrated papers.
Of caricaturing it may be said that it
is very ancient, very powerful, and
very dangerous institution. 1t is one of
the irresistible developments of human
nature. The Egyptians, the Assyrians,
the Greeks and all the other old nations
INDUCED in it; and the school boys of
1876, who show up the "Master' on the
black board, with heightened nose and
protuberant ears, and the mole on his
cheek as large as tea-cup, show that
the instinct is not likely to die out. 1t is
hardly necessary to say that some persons
are much easier to caricature than others.
You see this strikingly illustrated in the
English "Graphsc," where every promi-
nent man in the kingdom is liable to be
exhibited. In each picture the charac-
teristics of face and figure are so far in
tensifed as to give you keener idea of
the mans pecuIarities than you would
get from the original; and this is IN
many cases the full extent of the carica-
ture. 1t is singular that one may be
caricatured by his own photograph, and
this without its being done, as it some
times is designedly. "Do ! really look
like that9" comes spontaneously from the
lips of many, when they see themselves
thus reproduced. SIS the likeness good9"
I once asked good old gentleman, with
a head like an ivory ball, and pudgy
nose, and sculpin mouth ;-"Frightfully
accurate !" was his reply. There is some
times such marked difference between
the side and the front face that you can
hardly conceive that they belong to the
same person. The lines of the profile
may be clear-cut and we'll defined, indi-
eating beauty and intelligence; but when
the head revolves on its pivot, revealing
the front face, it has no more expr ession
than mushroom. There was an ar
rangement of mirrors in the Coliseum in
New York, where the dioramas of Lon
don and Paris were exhibited while ago
alas, for the public that they were so
poorly patronized by which everybody
who passed along was reduced to one
half or one-third his weight, swelling out
proportionately, and the apparent speed
OF the walker multiplied three or four
fold. This was caricature By the simple
process of reflection. II is noticeable that
any style of dress, after it has passed out
of fashion, has the effect of caricature.
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