Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-06-03
THE FLEETING SHOW,
Some OF Its Facts and Fancfes.
Written for the JOURNAL AND CoURIER.l

Here is an experiment which will amuse
the young people and probably be of inter
est to their elders. 1t is said to have been
first observed by the wizard Ellison and
pointed out by him to an artist friend.
The "outfit" lie very simple and inexpea-
sive. A pieco of newspapsr, bright
light, q sheet of hard and stiff white pa
per, and lead pencil. Crumpls and
squeezs the newspaper in the hands until
1t becomes fairly symmetrical ball with
rough surface. Throw it down upon the
paper or cardboard under the brill
liant light 30 that the shadow
will be strongly defined. This will
be found to be the outline of a human
face. Trace this with the pencil and toss
the ball again. Another face appears of
entirely different contour and you may
| find no two profles that are just alike.
shsdowgraphs and find in them a remark
able and amusing variety. With some, the
inequalities of the paper ball have sug-
gested hat or cap. others have floating
locks of hair, bristlipR mustaches or
flowing boards. There are pug and
Roman, Greek and nondescrlpt noses; !;
| fereheads lofty and low; and chins that are
salient or retreating Nature herself is
not more lavish of variety than are these
| queer shadows.
OF course there must be little "touch-
ing up"
The eye should be drawn In the proper
place, with the turn of the nostril, and q
few dashes where the hair is suggested,
but one need not be an artist to secure
quite surprising results in this way. A
new hall will furnish new profiles, and If
three or four young people were trying
this at the same time, exhibiting and COM
! pairing their collection of shadow portraits
at the end of twenty minutes or &C, it might
be made very merry game.
1t has been stated tsat human profiles
are always shown; that, toss the ball as
often as you please, the drawing will be
that of the human face aud never anything
else. This is great mistake, for paper
ball which has been repeatedly thrown at
this present time of writing has very plain
ly shown the outlined head of q horse, q
rabbit, a mouse, fox, pug dog, an "illi-
CANT pig" and a plump, demure-looking
pussy cat. Some human faces, however,
strongly resemble those of these very ami
mails, and probably the outlines of human
featured might have been drawn from these
. same shadows, though the animal sugges
tions were very positive and striking.
NILES sTANpIsH IN DENMARK.
A Danish woman, eighty-two years old
has recently translate dLongf.llow's"Cour
ship of Miles Standish" into the Danish
tongue. 1t has been entirely q labor o.
love with her, and the wide circle of read
ers the work has already found helps t.
prove how strong Is the interest in every
, thing American among the people of tina
, picturesque peninsula in northern Europe
q where from nearly every family has gon
ont at least ono representative to make
new home in this hospitable and alluIin
q New World.
j. "cHRYsoCERAMIC."
d The Misses Emily and Mary Healey Q
s Washington, D. c., have . remarkable e1
o hibit in the jewelry department of th
Manufacturers Building at the Columbia
). Fair. They have also an exhibit in tf
:. women's Building, and in the Aarylan
" State Building.
" These exhibits consist of pieces of chin
entire dinner, tea, and lunch services. y
= this china is go coated with gold that it q
pears to be made entirely of that valuab
10 metal. The ware is called "ehrysocer
ns mio"-''enveloped in gold" being liter
90 trsnslation of this addition to our vocab
larry. Il Ia said that 1t took six learn
professors six months to coin the wor
o. thu gold itself 10 the result OF the patte