The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-03-13
THE COMBINATION NEWSPAPER
CUT.

A gentleman connected with the news
paper business in this city has filled
want long felt by the invention of COM
bination newspaper cut or portrait that
can be made to represent any self made
man, actor or actress, 80 that it is not
necessary to buy q new cut when the
newspaper desires to depict the features
of man or woman. The newspapers
have of late years got In habit of pub
fishing pictures of great men and women,
and while the pictures are very interest
ing to the reader, the cost of each pro-
durtion makes serious inroad upon the
box Office receipts of the paper. The
Milwaukee inventor has got the matter
down fine. He takes "a basis, news
paper cut of Oscar Wilde, showing q
face that may pass for man or a woman,
face as vacant as the head above it,
with no expression, no nothing but q
dough face. Suppose newspaper 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 q beautiful smile,
such as the lady wears when she throws
kiss to lady friend in box at the
theater, and the picture is complete at
no extra expense. If picture of Fitz
John Porter is desired, the newspaper
man screws on a pair of side whiskers,
puts Democratic look on the face, a
sort of "out of meat" look, screws on
pair of Major General stars into the
shoulder, and Fitz is presented to the
million readers of the paper as natural
as life. If 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 ut the throat,
and leaning forward, slopes the forehead
back, muses. the hair, screws on base
ball moustache, with nine hairs on side,
puts on an expression as though White
law smelled wooden or something burning
and there is the great man who founder
ed Horace Greeley's paper, natural as life
II picture OF Conkling is wanted, the
artist telescopes the neck back to its
original length, and removes the White
law Reid business, puts curl in the
forehead, telescopes the nose out 30 it is
thin and looks as though it smelt burnt
overshoe. and Roscoe is presented to q
million readerA IF a 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 il
looking into the past, puts on NOUS
tache, swells out the cheeks, and puts on
on expression such as 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 DIR. Mary
Walker the artist soaks the cut in vine
gar and alum for day, and leaves off all
the moustacbe and -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 o
man who has got enough and knows
when he has got enough, and Arthur il
before you. For John Kelley it is only
| necessary to hit the picture of Oscar with
| q club knock the brains out, kick the
chin up, and shorten the lips 80 the teeth
will show like a row of pauper tomb
stones in Potter's field, put on few
whiskers that look as though they had
been picked like geese, and the Tammany
boss is as natural as life. In this way
at an original expense of five dollars, 6
newspaper can publish picture of any
man or woman on earth, that will look
| more natural than the cuts that are made
on purpose to represent each individual,
such as are now being published in the
papers to harrow up the souls of the vic
TINS. There is fortune in the invention
| for somebody.-Peck's San.