Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-03-20
ADJUSTABLE ART.
TIE Com animation Newspaper PoY"
trait Cut..-Picturos of Noted
People on Short Order.
IPeck's SUM-

IPeck's Sum-.
A gentleman connected with the newsrn-
per business in this city has filled want long
felt BY the invention Of combination news
paper cut OF portrait that can he used to rep
resent any self-made man, actor or actress,
no that it is not necessary to buy new cut
when the newspaper desires to depict the fea-
lures of q man Or woman. The newspapers
have Of late years got in habit Of publishing
pictures of great men and women, and while
the pictures arc very interesting to the
reader, tho cost of each production makes
serious inroad upon tho box Office receipts OF
the paper.
The Milwaukee inventor has got tho matter
down fine He takes as basis, a newspaper
cut Of Oscar Wilde, showing face that may
pass for q woman or u man, face as vacant
as the head above it, with no expression, no
nothing but dough face. Suppose news
paper man desires to publish cut OF
Ellen Terry. With the combination cut,
all he has to do is to curl Oscars
hair, pull down his vest SO as to show
little bare neck, and draw the mouth into
a beautiful smile, such as the lady wears
when she throws a kiss to q lady friend i'll
box at the theatre, an the picture is COM
plete, at no extra expense If picture OF
Fitz John Porter is desired tho newspaper
man screws on pair of side-whlskelS,
puts on the face a sort OF "out
of meat" look screws q pair OF major gen
eral stars into the shoulder, and Fitz is pre-
scented to the million readers Of the paper as
natural as life.
II picture Of Whitelaw Reid, of The New
York Tribune, is desired, the artist takes the
cut Of Oscar, pulls the neck out so it is about
eighteen inches long, with the Adams apple
at the throat and leaning forward, slopes the
forehead back, muses. the hair, screws on
base ball mustache with nine hairs on u
side, puts on all expression as though White
law smelled wooden OF something burning,
and there is the great man who foundcred
Horace Greeley's paper, natural as life. If
picture of Conkling is wanted, the
artist telescopes the neck back to its
original length. and removes the White
law Reid business, puts O curl in the
forehead, telescopes the nose out SO it is thin,
and looks as though it smelt burnt overshoe,
and Roscoe is presented to million readera
Ii picture of Ben Butler is desired. the
artist removes Oscars hair, leaving plain,
open space, twists the eyes right and left, SO
one is looking into the future while the other
swells out tho checks, and puts on all express
sion such as a man has when he gets to the
depot and finds his train gone, and there Is
Ben in all his glory.
For Susan B.. Anthony or DR.. Mary
Walker the artist soaks the cut In vinegar
and alum for a day, and leaves off all the
mustache and side whiskers, and those self
made women are ready for the market. To
make picture Of President Arthur it is only
necessary to push the chin up and make
double chin of it, screw on side whiskers closely
trimmed, and give the picture an expression
of a imam who has got enough and knows
when he has get enough, and Arthur is be-
fore you. For John Kelly it is only neces-
sary to hit the picture of Oscar with club
and knock tho brains out, kick the chin up
and shorten the lips SO tho teeth will show
like a row of pauper tombstoncs i'll Potter's
field, put on few whiskers that look as
though they had been picked like geese, and
the Ta,nmany boss is as natural as life.
In this way, at an original expense OF s.,
newspaper can publish Il picture Of any man
or woman on earth, that will look moro
natural than the cuts that are made on pur-
pose to represent each individual, such as are
now being published in the papers to harrow
up the souls of the victims There is for
tuae in tho invention for somebody.