Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-12
"MAKING UP,, FOR THE STAGE.
How to Make old or Young, Good or
 Had, With Paints and Powder.


 1 ssMAKING UP', FOR THE STAGE. How to Make old or Young, Good or Rad, With Paints and Powder. From the Cornhin Magazine Making up the face, as it is called, is an art in itself. By it the old can be made to look young, or at least younger, and the young old. By these arts the famous Deja get, when eighty years old, could play suc- cessfully young page. Formerly burned cork, piece of chalk and pot of rouge was all that was necessary; now your we'll graced actor has his makeup" box, or dressing case, containing stores of violet powder, Fuller's earth, chrome yellow, blue, erayons, umber, cosmestic, black enamel, 'joining paste,'' with other unpleasant things.
 All have their purpose. Are you the hunted villain skulking from justice in the woods, you must rub your cheeks and chin thoroughly with thick blue powder to leave the idea that you have not been able to shave for week Or should you be an aged crone or bag, few blue streaks on the arms or hands suggest the well-marked veins of old age. To be particularly youthful and lover like you must whlten your face thoroughly, rouge we'll up to the eye-lids, and then draw 3 little brown streak under the eyes, which lends brilliancy. An old man has very disagreeable task before him. He must rub his cheeks and chin we'll with Fuller's earth; then with camels hair brush proceed to make three dark streaks between the eyes, with long lines from the nostrils to the cor of the mouth; then get ou what is odd ly called his ''white bald wig,'' the bald DOT ton of which is fixed to the forehead by 'joining paste." striking additional eff feet of teeth being wanting, which at first sight seems an almost impossible thing to do. But in your makeup box" you find your black enamel, with which you paint couple of teeth; in few minutes it sets and hardens, and a most satisfactory and disagreeable evidence of old age is the result.
 A mode of attaching whiskers was the old fashioned one of hooking them on to the ears. But there is an article called "crape hair, which is gumned on to the cheeks, and when dry can be trimmed and eombed like real whiskers. As regards the nose there is an elegant way of treatment, name ly, by fitting on well-modelled papier- mache one; but there is the more rough-and- ready mode of dealing with it. We read in one of the text books on the subject the fol- lowing grave directions: 'EIn some low-com- edy characters, such Bardolph, &c., it is necessary to alter the shape of the nose in order to give it that bloated, blotchy appear ance noticeable in drunkards. You must first gum on to the end of the nose piece of wool, press it down to the shape and size re- quired, then powder it well with rouge to match the rest of the nose and cheeks. The cheeks may also be enlarged in the same way. The other, and perhaps the better way, is to take little powder, mix it with water and work it up into dough, fix it to the nose with spirit gum, mold it to the shape and size required, and then powder it with rouge to match the cheeks, Scc. Blotch- es, warts and pimples may be made by stick ing on small pieces of wool and coloring them either brown or red"
 We may thus fancy our unhappy actor complete, his woolen nose stuck on with gum, his eyebrows and whiskers we'll glued to lam, his black ensmelled teeth, his cheeks plastered with rouge, white and umber, his ''bald wig'' fastened to his forehead with joining pasta,'' and may wonder, in deed, how he can find spirit or even ease to