The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-10

| faces Of historic men, and soon found that
almost every man ] met looked somewhat
like one or another Of these. So began to
form plan of noting In my mind how these
men differed from the historically familiar
faces. One man, for instance, would look
Ike Napoleon, only his nose would not be
quite so long. So, you see, did not have
to remember his whole face, but only the
difference between it and Napoleons.
III you have never noticed IL you would
be surprised at the number of prominent
men In this country who have looked like
Napoleon, and there have been even more
VINO looked like Grant A single line in
any one OF score of faces would make a
change which would produce a good por-
trait OF Gen. Grant.
Then, too, almost every man looks like
or rather suggests to me some animal or
olrd or some inanimate thing. One man
looks like fish in the face, another like a
Dull, another like - frog an owl, an eagle,
ana great many call to my mind such
things as bottles and domes aud numerical
ngures. know one man whose face al
ways reminds me Of the figure g." and as he
spoke Mr.. Keppler took uD his pencil and
roughly drew figure s, which with four
added lines explained clearly what be
meant.
CHANGING EXPRESSIONS.
Mr.. Keppler's early experience as an actor
taught him mucn OF that skill he possesses in
changing the expression OF a face by means
of few lines.
THE nose," he says, ISIS fixture. 1t is
not necessary to change II much to produce
different expression. The eyes and the
mouth require changing, aud 1t eau be
done with very few lines. II you wish
pleasant expression you arch the brow lines
and turn the corners Of the mouth upward,
while for cross expression you make the
n Tevh ANaA tfTrf Nha D.
downward. When I once have drawn a
race remember it always and can draw it
from memory giving 1t any expression
please"
This remembering faces sometimes gets
me into embarrassing trouble. frequently
meet men with whom l think | am ac-
quainted, and after / have spoken TO them
lind know them only from having drawn
their faces.
THE SECRET.
THE secret Of caricature," said Mr. Keep
pier In answer TO a question, lis exaggera-
tlon, OF course. But first we have to de-
termlne what feature is to be exaggerated.
Ii man has an extraordinarily prominent
| nose we must make il more prominent, but
we must preserve the character OF his nose.
Il may be large and PIGGY, fat at the end
like Blaine's or long and pointed like Conk-
| ling's; the trick is to make Blaine's larger
and fatter than it is and Conkling's longer
and more pointed.
But caricaturs does not deal merely
| with faces and forms. IL has 10 do with
character as well. II a man be VIGOROUSLY
stiugy that stinginess must be pictured in
| his caricature, and pictured extravagantly,
81 that it will stand out as the most promi-
nent feature OF the portrait. II he be proud,
as ConkltnR was, for example, this trait of
character must be told in the expression of
his body as well as of his face. 1t would
not do to represent Conkling in an humble,
STOPPING attitude. He must stand erect,
with his chest thrown out"
Mr.. Blaine, it will be remembered, once
called Mr.. Conkling a turkey cock aud Mr..
| Conkling never forgave him for it. Mr..
Keppler In his caricatures always made Mr..
Conkling, who was one of his favorits sub
Jects. strut like turkey cock.
IN his WORKSHOP.
MIR. Keppler's workshop-he calls IL a
| workshop rather than studios not much
| like that OF the conventional artist. There
are no decorations, no pictures on the walls,
no suit OF armor in the corner. he does not
draw from models or furniture, ETC.. As art
lists generally do, but from memory or im~
| aRination. Here he has q large, heavy ta-
BILE, aad beside 1t a photographic stone
There is NO fancy furniture. A large cup
board contains vast collection OF photo
graphs Of prominent people aud a stock of
erayons. These are about the sum of his
| tools and models.
II suppose, )" said /, "a great many ideas
are sert to you by admirers and by those
| who like 20 see their ideas In prIntF
Yes" MIR. Keep or answered, i've get a
great many suggestions from outside, and
some Of them would be very useful 70 us if
tney only came in time. But they are al
most always too late to be OF avail. People
do not understand that we have to foretell
public events. Our paper for next Wednes-
day must be on the press by this Thursday
| so, you see, we have to be about two weeks
ahead with our ideas, whereas those sent in
to US are usually from a week to a month
| behind time"
TALMAGE NEVER COMPLAINS.
| Among the men now living and in public
| life the Rev. T. DeWitt Tslmage is prob
| ably the one whom the caricaturists most
delight to get at. His large mouth is made
hideously larger, his long nose much longer
and his enthusiastic gesticulation is carried
| TO the coarsest of contOrtionism. Yet it is
said that Mr.. Talmage never complains of
It,. There are those who even think he
rather enjoys il.