Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-29
MIXING VI, THE FACE.
uha. an English Magazine Says of tho
Art-Strihing Efects-Woolen Noses.


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1r,-strihing Efccts-Woolcm Noses.
fCornhill nlagazine.l
Making up the face, as 1t 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 Dejazet, when so years old,
could play successfully young page.
Formerly burnt cork, piece OF chalk,
and pot of rogue was all that was
necessary: now your well-graced actor
has his makeup" box, or dressing.
case, containing stores of violet powder,
fuller's earth, chrome yellow, blue,
crayons, lumber, cosmetic, black
enamel, Joining paste, with other I'M
pleasant things.
All have their purpose. Are you the
hunted william sullsing 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 q week. Or,
should you be an aged crone or bag, a
few blue streaks on the hands or arms
suggest the well-marked veins of old
age. To be particularly youthful or
lover-lilse you must whiten your face
thoroughly, rouge well up to your eye
lids, and then draw a little brown
streak under the eyes, which lends bril-
liancy. An old man has very disa-
greeable task before him. He must
rub his cheeks and chin we'll with full
ler's earth; then with camel's hair
brush proceed to make three dark
streaks between the eyes, with long
lines from the nostrils to the corners OF
the mouth, then get on what is oddly
called his white bald wig" the bald
portion of which is fixed to the fore
head by joining paste.
a striking additional effect is pro-
duced by giving the effect ofteeth being
wanting, which at first sight seems an
almost impossible thing to do. But in
your makeup" you find your black
enamel, with which you paint over o
couple of teeth; in few minutes it
sets and hardens, and most satisfac
tory 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 gummed on the cheeks, and when
dry can be trimmed and combed like
real whiskers. AS regards the nose,
there is an elegant way of treatment,
namely, by fitting on well-modeled
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 following grave direc-
tions: I'm some low comedy charac-
tiers, such as Bardolph, etc, it is nee
essary to alter the shape of the nose in
order to give that bloated, blotchy APP
pearance SO 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 required, then pow.
der it we'll 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, etc. Blotches, warts, and PIN
pies may be made by sticking on small
pieces of wool, and coloring them either
brown OF red" We may thus fancy
our unhappy actor complete, his
wooden nose stuck on with gum, his
eyes and whiskers well glued to him,
his black enameled teeth, his cheeks
plastered with rouge, white, and lumber,
his "bald wig" fastened to his forehead
with "jcining PASTE" and we may won
der, indeed, how he can find spirit or
even ease to utterhis words!