The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-22
ADJUSTABLE r
The Combination Newspaper Por-
trait Cut-Pictures of Noted
People on Short Order.
IPeck's Sum-

A gentleman connected with the
newspaper business of this city has
filled a want long felt by the inven.
ton of a combination newspaper cut
or portrait that can be used to repre-
sent any self-made man, actor, or
actress, so that it is not necessary to
buy a new cut when the newspaper
desires to depict the features of any
man or womah. The newspapers
have of late years got in thu habit of
publishing pictures Of great men and
women, and while the pictures are
very interesting to the reader, the
cost of each production makes a seri-
GUS inroad upon the box Office re-
ceipts of the paper.
The Milwaukee inventor has got
the matter down tine. He takes as a
basis a newspaper cut of Oscar Wilde
showing q face that may pass for a
woman or a man, a face as a mt as
the head above it, with no OK pressi0n
and no nothing but a dough face.
Suppose q newspaper man desires to
publish a cut OF Ellen Terry. With
the combination cut all he has to do
is curl Oscars hair, pull down his
pCot " 90 w 5A4O" q AllCAC OUAO AlCLht
and draw the mouth into q beautiful
smile, such as the lady wears when
she throws. a kiss to a lady friend in
a box at the theatre, aud the pic
TURF is complete at no extra expense.
If picture Of Fitz John Porter is
desired, the newspaper man screws
on q pair of side-whlskers, puts on the
face a sort of ''Out Of meat" look,
raw q pain Of major general stars
into the shoulder, and Fitz is presen-
ted to the million readers of the paper
as natural as life.
If q 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 a baseball moustache
with nine hairs on a side, puts on an
expression as though Wh:telaw
smelled wooden or something burn
ing, and there is the great man who
Il undered Horace Greeley's paper,
natural as life. If a picture of Conk-
ling is wanted, the artist telescopes
the neck back to its original length,
removes the Whitelaw Reid business,
puts a curl in the forehead, telescopes
the los out so it is thin, and looks
as If it smelt burnt OvershOe, and
Roscoe Is presented 10 a million read
ers. If q picture of Ben BuGler is
desired the artist removes Oscars
hair, leaving y plain, open space,
twists the eye right and left, SO that
n is looking into the future while
the other is looking at the past. puts
on a moustache, swells out the cheeks
and puts on an expression such as a
M 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 moustache and side
whiskers, and those self-made wOluen
are ready for the market. TO make a
picture of President Arthur it is only
necessary to push the chin up and
make q double chin of 1t, screw on
side whiskers closely trimmed, and
give the picture an expression of a
man who has got enough and knows
when he has got enough, and Arthur
Is before you. For John Kelly it is
only necessary to hit the picture of
Oscar with a club and knock all the
brains out, kick the chin up and
shorten the lips so that the teeth will
show like a row of pauper tombstones
in a Potter's field. put on a few whis- !
kers that look a. If they had been
picked like geese, and the Tammany |
boss is az natural as life.
In this way, at an original expense
OF 70, 4 newspaper can publish a cut
OF any man or woman on earth, that
will look more natural than the cuts !
that are made on purpose to repre- !
sent each individual, such as are now
being published in the papers to har-
row up the souls of the victims. |
There is a fortune in the invention !
Tor someone.