Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-11-24
REPAIRING DAMAGED EYES.
SOW Duties OF The Artist Who AG0Prov'
OHe's PersOnaI Appearance

Ones PersOnaI Appearance
New York SUM-
Responding to calls from private houses
is a new departure of the artist who has
the sign: paint your eyes while You
wait.
They get en-" he said, referring to
damaged eyes. 'In residences In flfth
and Madison avenues and the swell SIDE
streets as often as in Baxter street, or
Avenue A. Many are ladies, and of course
they do not want to go through the
streets in even carriage with such
Disagreement"
''Do they say how they sst black
eyes?" e
kind They trip and fall down stairs,
run against door in the dark, or catch
cold. The marks OF fist are, however,
in most cases easy to be distinguished.
We always sympathize with them and
say such accidents are very common.
But painting black eyes is not all that
we go out to do. We go out to make
ladies up Mt their residences for balls,
parties, private theotricals, etc. Some
women will get made up just to attend
a dinner. BY making up I mean filling
up wrinkles, adding dimples, improving
the complexion. The young men in So
cietv would he thrnderstruck if they
knew how much scores of bellies owed to
art, both as to face and form"
You say YOU are always opeu?"
eve are obliged 10 be- We have calls
from ) e. N. up to after midnight. You
see if a person has been struck and comes
III half AL hour afterward, black eye
can easily be prevented. 1t is the delay
that cause the blood to accumulate and
harden. We have some who come here
as soon as day breaks to get fixed up for
their days work.
WHO come here? Everybody. We
have good many cIergymen of different
denominations. They generally get their
black eyes by slipping on banana-skin,
and are always going to sue the city.
Young hoods who have been fighting
often meet each other here A few days
ago two chaps met here who had had
fight, and they went at it again, and we
had to separate them. Outside Of these
we make up any quantity of actors and
actresses, and conceal all kind of birth.
marks, pimples, burns and blotches.
Yes, black eyes can be caused by other
means than blows We have had some
extraordinary cases. 4 man came in here
the other day who had slipped and hit
the back of his head very hard. 1t gave
tender and on them black eyes are easily
produced A curious case was that of a
man who had mark on his face resem-
bling bullet mark. We used to paint
it, but every time he took q Russian
bath 1t would come out again. 1t disap-
peared, however III about three months.
Our out-of-town custom is considerable.
We had party from Philadelphia the
other day, and visits from the suburbs
are frequent. ] suppose you read of
mulatto woman and what q sensation
she created at several balls last winter.
Well she was made up here and magnf-
Gently she looked. Many young bloods
have not recovered yet from the effects
of the sell she SO successfully played on
them. A celebrated opera singer had
occasion to go out j,ac0gl5ta few weeks
ago, and we went to her hotel and dis
guised her so completely that her most
intimate friend did not recognize her
''Are your preparations a secret?"
"Well, partly so, but the qa0dus op-
erG5ldl is not You see here a palette
with paints of different tints ready to be
applied. In the case of a black eve, hot
water, hot Ponds extract, and our pc
cuiiar hniment, with pressure are frat
applied Then the Disagreement is con-
cealed by oil paints. After the paint
dries persons can wash their faces or go
III swimming if they want to, In the
case of cuts we put the flesh together
and cauterize, and fix it so that the place
Of the cut can not be distinguished. A
lady came in here yesterday with one
eye completely closed up. When she
left you couldn't tell which eye had been
damaged. Two days completes the cure,
but it is necessary to operate before
much time has elapsed after the injury
was received"
What is the best season for black
eyes p
"Well, election times, HOLIDAYS, or
occasions when there is any strong pub
lie feeling or difference of opinion on an
important subject st. Patrick's day
used to be good day, but this year we
didn't renoyate an optic 4 rainy day
is poor one, and fine day a good one
for making people up. Pimples and
ireckles are taken off by wash; no cure,
no pay. Smallpox marks cannot be
concealed except by purifying up the
whole face. It's seven years since we
started IN the business. Come in any
time you get a black eye," Mr.. Thomp-
son said, rs he turned to attend a Gus
toner who had evidently run against q
door, slipped on banana skin, or fallen