River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-23
New Duties of the Artist Who Improves
Ones Personal Appearance.
from The New York sun.

One>S fersOnaA Appearance.
From The New York Sun.
Responding to calls from private
houses is new departure of the artist
who has the sign Paint your eyes
while you wait"
''They get 'em," he said referring to
damaged eyes, sin residences in Fifth
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 even in carriage with such
a Disagreement"
ado they say how they get black
eyes?"
.'Oh, it is always an accident of some
kind They trip and fall down stairs,
run against a door in the dark or catch
cold. The marks ola fist are, however,
III 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 do. We go out to make la
dies up Mt their residences for balls,
parties, private theatricals, etc. Some
women will get made up just to attend
dinner. BY making up | mean fill
ing up wrinkles, adding dimples, i'm
proving the complexion. The young
men in society would be thunderstruck
if they knew how much scores of bellies
owed to art, both as to face and FORM"
"You say you are always open?'
1--WE are obliged to be. We have
calls from Il. m. up to after midnight.
You see if a person has been struck and
comes in half an hour afterward a
black eye can easily prevented. 1t is
the delay which causes the blood to
accumulate and harden. We have
some come here as soon as day breaks
to get fixed up for their days work"
"Who comes here? Everybody. We
have good many clergymen of differ
ent denominations. They generally
get their black eyes by slipping on a
banana skin, and are always going
to sue the city. Young bloods 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 sepa-
rate them. Outside of these we make
up any quantity of actors and actresses,
and conceal all kinds of birth marks,
pilnples, burns, and blotches. Yes black
eyes can be can be caused by other
means than blows. We have had some
extraordinary cases. A man came in
in here the other day who had slipped
and hit the back of his head very hard
1t gave him two black eyes Some
skins are tender and on them black
eyes are easily produced. A curious
case was that of a man who had a
mark on his face resembling . bullet
mark. We FUSED to paint it but every
time he took Russian bath it would
come out again. 1t disappeared how
ever, in 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 a sensation
she created at several balls last winter.
Well she was made up here and mag
niicently 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 incognita
few weeks ago and we went to her
hotel and disguised her so completely
that her most intimate friends did not
know her"
care your preparations a secret?"
"Well, partly so, but the mOdts Opsr-
andi is not, You see here palette
with paints of different tints ready to
be applied. In the case of q black eye,
hot water, hot Ponds extract, and our
peculiar liniment, with pressure, are
first applied. Then the Disagreement
is concealed with oil paints. After the
paint dries persons can wash their faces
or go in swimming if they want to. In
case of cuts we put the flesh together
and Cauterize, and fix it so the place of
the cut cannot be distinguished. A
lady came in here yesterday with one
eye completely closed up. When she
left you couldn't tell which eye was
damaged. Two days completes the
cure, but it is necessary to operate be-
fore much time has elapsed after the
injury was received"
"What is the best time foI black
eyes?'
elections, holidays, or occasions
when there is any strong public feeling
or differences Of opinion on an import
ant subject st. Patricks Day used to
be good day, but this year we didn't
renovate an optic, A + my day is a
poor one, and fine day a good one for
making folks up. Pimples and freck-
els are taken off by a wash, no cure, no
pay. Smallpox marks can't be con-
cealed except by puttying up the face.
It's seven years since we started in the
business. Come in anytime when you
get a black eye," Nj. Thompson said
as Turned To attend To a customer who
had evidently run against door, step
ed on banana skin, or fallen over n
dog.