The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-27
CAST IN PLASTER.
Peculiar Sensations Experienced by
Young Detroit Woman.
From tine Detroft Urea preue

q Young Detroit Woman.
From tine Detroit Free Press.
"Are you sure l won't suffocate7"
The speaker is a very pretty girl who is
lying in a reclining position, while bend
ing over her stands man with a pail
filled with white, watery liquid. She is a
pupil of one of the art schools here, and
t he man with the pail (Which contains
plaster) is an instructor who is about to
take cast of the formers face.
mo, you won't suffocate. Just lie
quietly and don't say "a wOrd.''
With that the man put down the pail
and made tube of a page of stiff paper.
This tube he thrust into one of the nos
trils of the young woman.
couch !"
"You can breathe nicely through that"
said the man.
But it tickles."
''You will get used to it,"
Suppose | should want to sneezelv
ooh, you mustn't do that when the mask
is on"
IN try not to- But now l can under
stand how diver must feel when he goes
down for the first time"
The man ties towel over the auburn
tresses of the young woman and says:
'NOw, make ready" She closes her eyes
and then gives q little shudder as the
cold liquid plaster touches the upper part
of her face. She tries to be brave aud to
think that it requires no courage to have
a cast made'of your head, but her heart
sinks as she feels the liquid slowly COW
ering her face. The coating of the plas-
ter is thin, so that the expression may be
retained When a thick coating is
used and the plaster is patted
down too hard the result is apt
to be startling. The cast will
look like the head Of pugilist who has
been battered in the ring. So a small
stream only is poured over the girl and
the man with the pail gives it plenty of
time to dry. The nose is the last place
to be covered up, and as long as that is
free she does not feel uneasy, for she can
breathe easily and naturally But when
her dainty nose is hidden from view she
realizes the awfulness of her position.
She is now literally encaSed in plaster,
and the only evidence to the outsider that
there is a thing Of life beneath the great
white mass is the sound Of hard breath
ing through the paper tube. The nostril
that is free from the tube has had a bit of
cotton thrust into it, while the same has
been done to the ears
Meanwhile the young girls thoughts
are something like this "Oh, how awful
it is under here! Dear me, how loudly
everything sounds Those footsteps are
like thunder. ! wish ] was out of this
How uncanny that plaster feels My, /
believe that it is getting hard. Now /
know. how terrible IT must seem to be
buried alive. wish / could swallow, but
| suppose that if, / do the cast win be
spoiled. What a horrible sound make
breathingl Good gracious, it seems years
that / have been here. 1t must be an
hour, anyway. ! wish they would hurry
and take it off II is so unnatural breath
ing through that horrible tube. What if
some one should jog against the tube and
bend it so that ! could not breathe Oh,
peahaps ! could break off this awful
thing, and then ! would be all right.
I feel like that poor woman they dug up
on the site of Pompeii Only there
was nothing of her, only a hole in the
earth, and this they filled with plaster.
II you could only see, the way the divers
do, it wouldn't be 50 bad. 1 don't like