Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-03-01
BEAUTIFUL SCIENCE
q Chat with One Of New Yorka
, Blacl-Eye Artists.
III Sorts OF Facial Detects Covered Up
by an Expert-Red Noses Painted
Whito-The Work Of SandbaG-
gers Cleverly Initiated.


l,lishments to his great specially, says
the New York Sun. Having achieved
local fame as skillful disguiser of the
most embarrassing of facial disfgure-
ments, he is endeavoring to meet the
frequent demands that are made upon
him to conceal other physical defects OF
q more or less compromising nature. He
has attained such proficiency with his
brush and powder and cosmetic that he
is ready to guarantee that one of his
painted eyes will pass even a suspicious
wife's scrutiny. This success has led
him to make the treatment of red noses
his latest specially, and he is doing a
rushing business in this and some Incl
dental side lines. ....
cit is curious" said he with a signif1
cant smile, ''that we never have a black
eye brought in here that was received
in fight. They are always caused by
accidents more or less peculiar. OF
course most men run against door in
the dark or slip on the stairs and
strike the banisters,' or if it is warm
and he is family man he was playing
ball with the children The women"
"Women!"
"Bless you, yes, lots of 'em, and
they're mighty particular, I tell you. I
wish they would stay away, for there's
no money in painting eyes for women at
fifty cents an eye. I started to tell you
the women always have some accident
in connection with their domestic duties
to give in explanation of the unsightly
bruise, for woman-or q man either,
for that matter-never fails to explain
to US deliberately just how it happened
Most of our black-eye customers, If the
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offices who have been on a bit of time,
and who know it won't do to carry the
marks of it around in sight Of their
employers. There really are other
things than another mans fist that will
cause black eye, but you can't make
anybody believe it. So it usually
happens that man who has innocently
met with an accident is as anxious to get
rid of the suggestive marks of it as is
another chap who has been in . brawl
and has got worsted. AS q matter OF
fact, nearly all our customers are re-
spectacle people. Plug uglies don't
bother to conceal black eye. 1t gives
them distingue appearance that
they are rather proud of. 1t is the man
of standing who, after he has tried raw
beefsteak, an ice compress, a brown
paper plaster, and all the other thing,
in vain, comes in despair to US. He
might as we'll come at once, for q black
eye once gained is not to be got rid OF
inside of ten days, and it will be nearly
two weeks before the natural color is
fully restored. How many black eyes
do we treat? Well, the average now is
very nearly one hundred a week. A
black eye should be painted fully twice
a week while it lasts. Some victims
who are fearful of discovery come in
every morning while the affection lasts
to be touched up little on their way to
business"
GLOW do you manage with red
| noses?''
''Oh, in the same way. 1t is more
delicate job to put the innocent COM
! plexion of youth upon nose deep-dyed
by high living of half lifetime. The
| nose is the most prominent feature, and
the most skillful work is required to
disguise its color so that the handiwork
of the artist will not betray itself. No
body ever admits that his carmine.
tipped nose is the result Of dissipation
or high living. 1t is always a case Of
erysipelas. We don't attempt to cure a
red nose, although our sign outside an.
.nounces, Red Hoses Cured We only
|
larly to have nose painted. We have
regular customers, however, who come
once in awhile as special occasion may
make it necessary. The explanation
usually given, and I have no doubt it ia
a true one, is that the owner of the
luminous proboscis intends to attend .
funeral and wants to be made moon.
spicuous."
"What other work do you dor"
''Oh, great variety. We even make
black eyes as we'll as cure them. Only
q week ago man came in here and asked
me to paint one of his eyes terrihoa1ly
black. He had bucked the tiger the
night before, and had lost almost all
his money, a large sum. He didn't dare
60 home without an innocent explana-
ton of his loss, so he had faxed up a
startling story about being sandbagged
and robbed. I supplied him with cor
roborative evidence of the sandbAgging
in my most artistic style. 1t is q very
common thing for men who are oandi.
dates for the police and fire departments
to come in here to get fixed up before
submitting to the physical examination
that is required. We cover up marks Of
old injuries and other defects very skill
fully, I can assure you. There was q
fellow here only three days ago who had
a bad hole or depression in his leg. We
filled it up and oolored it naturally, and
1 don't believe the deception was de-
tected. Yes, we supply all sorts Of dis
guises. I presume the purpose is always
innocent. We don't ask any questions.
It's Hone Of our business
Sixteenth Century Surgery.
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geons of the sixteenth century, thus de-
cribes his method for tumors: ''If it be
q movable, tumor, cut it away with
red-h knife that sears as it cuts; but
fit be adhered to the chest I cut til
without bleeding or pain with q wooden
or horn knife soaked in aqua fortis, with
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