, 1884-04-03
ADJUSTABLE ART.
rho Combination Newspaper Por-
trait Cut---Plctures of Noted
People on Short Ordor.


A gentleman connected with the ncwspa-
er business in this city has filed u want long
cit by the invention of u combination news
PAPER cut or portrait that can be used to rep
resent any sclf-made man, motor OF actress,
70 that It is not necessary to buy a new cut
When the newspaper desires TO depict the fca-
urcs Of IA man or woman. The newspapers
iaye Of late years goti in a habit Of publishing
pictures Of great men and women, and while
tho pictures are very interesting to the
aender, the cost Of each production makes IL
eTious inroad apon the box office receipts Of
she paper.
The Milwaukee inventor has got tho matter
Town fine. Ho sskes as a basis, a newspaper
tut Of Oscar Wilde. showing a face that may
pass for a woman or IL man, IA face as vacant
IS the head above il, with no expression, no
1othing but a dough fEce. Suppose "a news
paper man desires 10 publish a cut of
Ellen Terry. With The combination cut,
al he has to do is to curl Oscars
hair, pull down his vest 50 az to show II
little bare neck, and draw the mouth into
4 beautiful smile, such US the lady wears
when she throws a kiss to a lady friend in a
box Mt the theatre, aud this picture Is com
s.ete, at NO extra expense. II a picture OF
Fitz John Porter is desired, the newspaper
nan screws an a pair of side-whiskcrs,
puts ON the face u sort OF tout
If meat look, screws Il pair Of major gen
srul stars into the shoulder, and Fitz is pre-
'ented to the million readers of the paper as
natural us life. .
II a picture Of Whitelaw Reid, of The New
York Tribune, is desired, the artist takes the
ut of Oscar, pulls the neck out 50 IL Is about
Eighteen inches long, with the Adams apple
At the throat, aud leaning forward, slopes the
,urehead back, muses. the hair. screws on n
base u ball mustache, with nine hairs Oh II
side, puts on an expression as though White.
INV smciled WOODEN or something burning,
and there is the great man who foundered
Horace GrCeley's paper, natural as life. II Il
picture of Conkling is wanted, the
artist telescopes the neck back to its
original length, and removes tho White
law Reid business, puts a curl in the
forehead, telescopes the nose out so it is thin,
and looks rs though II smelt burnt oyershoe,
and Roscoe Is presented to a million readers.
II n picture of Ben Butler is desired the
artist removes Oscars hair, leaving n plain,
open spnce, twists the eyes right and left, SC
one Is looking into the future while the other
Is looking ut the past, puts on n mustache,
'wells out the checks, and puts on an expires
sion such as n man has when he gets to the
depot md finds his train gone, and there Is
Ben in all his glory.
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Walker tho artist soaks tho cut in vinegar
and slum for n day, and leaves OFT all the
mustache and side whiskeIs, and those self
made women are ready for the market. To
make n picture Of President Arthur 1t is only
necessary TO push the chin up and make a
double chin OF it, screw on side whiskors closely
trimmed, and give the picture an expression
Of a man who has got enough and knows
when he has get enough, and Arthur is be
fore you. For o Kelly 1t is only necet
Sary to hit the picture Of Oscar with a club
and knock the brains out, kick the chin up
and shorten tho lips so the toeth will show
like a row Of paupor tombstones in a Potter's
field, put on a few whiskers thai look as
though they had been picked like geese, anS
the Tammany boss is as natural as life.
In this way, at an original expense OF 50, =
newspaper can publish a picture Of any man
OF woman o n earth, hat will look more
natural than the cuts that arc 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 a for
tune In tho invention for somebody.