The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-09
FACES MAE HANpsoMER.
Come Secrets one Celebrity Fhoto-
grapher's Ar Revealed By Well
known Expert

green, dewy UnioEquare and the line of
afternoon loungers rolling up Broadway.
The walls were ng with old tapestries
and discolored pluss. A Chinese idol,
with battered, disputable looking nose,
s0uatted on top OF altering cabinet. The
white felt hat witlhe eagle plume which
Fechter wore as Diocesan de Bazan hung
beside japanese re.
Half finished charel sketches and plas-
ter casts of nude figes were tumbled In
corners with true arttic negligence.
Everything was e1ctly where 1t should
not have been. Butnis very inappropri-
ateaess gave the ple,its charm.
II was Sarony's de He sat in the midst
Of bis idols, an odd, tile figure, the tassel
on his Turkish fez bebing into his eyes.
al have Just finisi this picture" he
said, contemplating with his head on one
side, charcoal drawlg on an easel before
him How do yoiike that girl in her
ouaint colonial dres, You see, she has
inst finished readin4he letter on her lap.
Now from her face. mat kind OF a letter
would you suppose to beg
Its very plain tht the letter is from a
lover. And it says hat all is over between
them. Am | rights
Exactly And " not tho first time
she has read the lette,either, eh?' he asked,
with a knowing loo. "She cried over it
the first time, of curse. didn't shes All
girls do, don't they But after the TWEEN
teth time, when shfknows 1t by heart, she
inst feels that quie, absolute hopelessness
which her whole posture aud express
sion denote Maye I'll call When hope
is dead Now, yorwish to talk about pho
Biography. Well tell me just what mys-
teries YOU want Explained, for of couse it's
all simple as A, J, Q to me-"
"HoW do YOU dealize an ugly face? We
ice photograph of our friends which are
really true likeiesses in a way, and yet
they have new chastened light and soft
ress over all tie features which make us
think it is theway they will look in heaven. I"
He commenced putting the finishing
touches to adrawing of Psyche, and it was
curious to ste how with every faint touch of
his pencil her half loosened hair became
more and more like actual, living threads.
He continued his work as he talked.
Il can explain that by an illustration. A
lady came to me one time. Her face was
heavily marked by smallpox. Her features
were irregular, her eyes dull and rather
Drawn. Perhaps sits foolish of me- she
aid, but | long to have some pictures
aken to look as / used before had that
erribie illness which left me disfigured.
nave tried again and again, but photographs
oily make me look uglier than l am. On,
db YOU think you could do this for meg As
she spoke she ciasped her hands and l was
as,onished to see now finely her insignifi-
calt eyes blazed up when she became earn
est Well, | placed her face in the best
position but no matter how much she tried
to enliven it, it remained dull. AS if by
accident commenced to ask her questions
about her illness and | sympathized with
her until the expression had noticed before
came back. Then l cried, Keep just as
you arer In second the thing was done.
Were the pictures success"
"Were theya l wish L had one left to
show you! Her eyes shone with radiant
usefulness and fave delightful softness
70 the face, SO thst one forgot the features
lltogether. The smallpox marks were re-
bowed from the negative. Come in here"
g said, as he threw curtain over
Psyche" land l'L show you an artist re-
9uching negative"
He led the way down a narrow hall to a
tile room at tb end. 1t was entirely in
sade except fora small square of sunlight
dining throughan opening in sort of box
ad illumining face on glass plate placed
abve it.
Nhe face shole with a spectral glitter.
Tire was deeo furrow between the brows.
cynical lines around the mouth and the
Skihwas rugged.
"Egerythirg white in the negative will
be bAck in to- photographs and uice Uersu
-hen,e its iame," said Sarony. ''The
white ines AMI the white spots in the skin
would make hadows, They must be re-
moved, yet no altogether. Watch how he
does it,
The artist bat over his work. touching
the defects metioned with pencil made
for the purpoS and one by one they be-
came softened
I'VE leave sugg estion of the frown,
you see, or it yould not be a likeness at all.
But We are nobasely fatteriHg the origi-
nal when we prtially remove the blem-
ishes. I'll tellYou why You see gentle
maa of your ACQUAINTANCE every day in the
year and you over notice that his mouth
is out of drawing and one eyebrow slightly
higher than ne other. But look at the
proofs of his photographs and these defects
are palpable &c once Photography is I'M
compromisin,ly truthful. Now" said
Sarony, witha persuasive gesture, sit is
not our wish to mske a man hate his face
and wish hf had never been born, is its No,
in1eed s. we smooth them out until they
are as fair as they appear in the originate
Can y,u explain why some faces are so
much on, of drawing? Why one side is
often so'ery different from the other?n
Mud OF it results from bad habits in
mfanc; You see baby sucking its thumb
and scklng 1t with vim, the other fingers
pressed hard against the nose. The teeth
III To- soft gums are in this way pushed into
prominence, the lips are protruded, the nose
IN Vhlch the cartilage is forming is pressed
q nd hob - IL
e'eS is screwed out of place in the intensity of
lis satisfaction. Mothers ought to be more
carftul and check the thumb sucking habit
MAKING grimaces, squirting, laughing only
ohpne Side of the mouth also do much to
Sptl the faces Of children"
o.,I 10 character photographs require more
cae than others?n
lucy require more Judgment. It is not
a"ays possible to show a comic actor in
!s' me exaggerated postures he effects on
pe sCage, as many of them would throw
ee o3dy out of focus. They can be re-
aned In effect, however, although little
pItesnortened. The pictures Of Stuart
t tooson IN his new play, which took very
PeeTenriy, are an example of this rule"
,,r w n Ia position tests face nostm
.r;n, uille, he promptly replied. "This
nss OUT the outlines of the face, which
nusV contorm to the law of beauty and be
Z d perfect proportion. In good profile the
Ioos mas three equal parts. One-third fore
IS1 ; one-thlrd nose and one-third nose to
~ The chin must be round, softly melt
W. ~ into the throat, and it must be exactly
v ,eii with the forehead. Here are few
LINES Ut L to Illustrate my meaning"
e ! nave noticed the three-quarter position
u 81! ene lace is very Common"
Il. an yes" cried Saropy, with shrug;
a us me conventional position peculiar
,ac tne conventional photographer. He