Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-11-26
THE ART OF MAKING UP.
A NOTED wicMAkeR TELLS HOW
DISCUSSES ARE EFFECTED.

Eradication Of Personal PecuIiaritsea
q Very Important Item In Disgusting
a Person--Cost Of the work.
Mr.. Charles II. Fox, the celebrated wig
maker Of Coyent Garden, has recently ex-
planned that he IL constantly In the habit
OF Disgusting persons for purposes quite
unknown to him. Being OF opinion that a
few more details about his "unholy art
would not be without interest, we dis
patched representative to see Mr.. Fox,
who went to business at once:
You would be astonished, y he began, ito
know the number of people who come here
to be disguised. 1t has grown into "A part Of
our regular business. Men Of all classes
gentlemen, detectives, amateur de-
tectives, and ! do not doubt that have
disguised on many occasions some OF the
greatest criminals OF the day or course it
Is none of my business to inquire into the
purposes for which these DISCUSSES are as
summed, though sometimes am told. The
people who come generally have some tale
to tell on the first occasion, but | take
these tales with grain or two of salt A
large number of private detectives and
even Scotland yard men come to me, and
as know their business | ask no Ques-
tons. That they should disguise them
selves Is perfectly legitimate. However, as
was saying, sometimes mn told after
ward what the disguise was wanted for.
MANNER OF DISCUSSING.
why, have customer at the present
| time who comes In sometimes two or three
times a week He Is made up as a middle
aged man and goes out OF the shop SO com
pietely disguised that none of his friends
know him. dom know what his object
Is. He seldom stays away more than two
or three hours, then comes back, resumes
his natural dress and appearance and
hear no more Of him till he comes again to
be disguised. ] fancy it is case of cher
chez In femme but, Of course, IL il no
business Of mine"
do you ever have ladies TO disguiset"
''No. In fact, think | may say never
| You see the art of making up comes nat
ural TO almost all women. / think IL Is
born in them. They all understand how
to beautify themselves. And IL they want
| to disguise themselves they prefer to trust
| to their own ingenuity A change of dress,
a VEIL an alteration in the mode of doing
| the hair, a pair of spectaclcs and there you
are detection is almost impossible"
Now, MIR. Fox, how do you set about
Disgusting pcrsoni"
| "Oh, IL is very easy. We change the ex-
preston OF the face by deepening shadows,
alter the shape of the eyebrows by touch
ing with trifie OF color, put a little hair
on with spirit gum, change the fashion OF
the hair on the head, and sometimes throw
into prominence the bones and muscles OF
the neck. Making up for the street In to-
tally different to making up for the stage.
| For daylight use we must employ as little
paint as possible. A piece of burnt paper
I straInraa m inyaIxs and
which we use for deepening shadows, and
il is imperceptible TO the naked eye of the
ordinary observer.
Il can produce the appearance OF chin
which has not been shaved for three or
four days in very simple manner. The
face is first toned to the requisite shade;
then covered with a thin layer of spirit
gum; then a quantity Of finely cropped
hair is then dabbed on to 1he chin and
cheeks when the gum Is nearly dry OF
course the things to he avoided are to leave
the gum shiny and to have the hair dabbed
on in patches. Practice makes perfect,
and an adept hand never makes these
blunders.
MINOR POINTS or THE ART.
Crepe hair may be used for whiskers or
beard in an absolutely undetectible man
ner If carefully put on and trimmed after
| bAl 4 HEFAtFY AtfAlGftu III using WIGS
or false hair, to alter the dressing OF a
mans own hirsute appendages. Thus, In
your own case, by turning up your mus
tache, by showing your upper lip. just al
tering the act of your eyebrows little and
by deepening the shadows on your face and
neck little you would find your face COM
pletely altered. But there is one important
thing in effecting n disguise which you
must not forget. IL Ii not alone the head
and face which must be altered. The at
tire. the dress, must undergo just as com
piete change A turned down collar a
different suit of clothes boots and hat, and
even the pocket handkerchief needs to be
different from that you usually carry.
Why, do you know that the very manner
of carrying n handkerchief in the pocket
has been sufficient before now to detect a
person through clever disguised
How loag does 1t take to effect one of
your startling disguisesfn
From ten minutes to half an hour, nc
cording to the character to be assumed and
the amount Of work required This also
regulates the cost, which is from half n
guinea upward. In ten minutes, for half
a guinea, will disguise you 80 completely
that neither your own mother, your wife
nor the editor of your paper would know
you. As | have said. prefer not to use
wigs-of course their use increases the
cost-and always demand deposit il
loan them. Yes, sometimes | get sus.
picions characters, then notify Bow
street.
During the Jack the Ripper scare must
have had hundreds of customers. At last
IL got such big thing, and took such an
interest in the affair, | sent across 90 Bow
street, and several Of my customers were
Swallowed. One was followed TO Mentone
and another to New York They all pro-
fessed to be amateur detectives, but I
fancy some were anything but that, and |
even dare say that the gentleman himself
may have passed through my hands more
than once. II Is quite a common thing for
large publieans, who own number of
houses, To disguise themselves and visit
their various places to watch aud see II
there Is any shady business going on with
their responsible representatives, but |
think the majority of my customers are
jealous husbands, who think it necessary
10 keep sharp eye on their wives Pail
Mall Gazette.
To Col. Dom piatt belongs the credit OF
having started the crusade against '"rha
Car Hog" Five years ago he contributed
an article to the American Press Associa-
ton under this title. II had wide circu.
lation, and il had good effect In toning
down the eceentricities Of porcine travellers.
But, as In the case OF liberty. it requires