Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22
THE YOUNG FOLE'SCORNER.
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NATTER FOR THE YoUNG.
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another and q novel conceit I'm
shadow effects hae been discovered nv
q clever New York artist. 1t is to the
eject that a wad of paper crumpled
up into a ball will always cast a
shadow whose outline will be that Of n
human face.
According to the American Pressfnan
MIR. Thomas Edison, the wizard of
electricity, first pointed out this &C.
centricity to Mr.. Phil G~oatcher, the
arust, Mr.. Goatcher %thereupon
showed 1t to an assemblage of brother
arusts, who promptly came to the
conclusion that things were slipping
away from them when n way had been
oun by which the merest tyro in art
could get an outline for a profile with
so little labor or application Of talent.
L tried 1t myself. The effect was
really astonishing. Try it yourself
n You will be astonished. This is
Ihe way to try it. Take a piece of
newspaper, squeeze it into a fairly
symmetrical ball and then throw it
on a piece of hard white paper placed
under a brightly burning gas Jet so
mat the shadow will be sharply de-
hned. Then take a pencil and trace the
outline OF n human profile. Toss it
GOWN as many times Is you like and
trace the outline. 1t VIII always be
the drawing Of human profile. Never
anything else. 1t never misses fire.
Never the, Same Face.
Mr.. GOatcher says that either from
n end OF the shadow or the other
you a trace it. You can try ii a
thousand times, If you like. Just touch
III a few lines for suggestion, as
roughly as you have q mind to, to in-
dictate the eyes, turn of nostrils, end Of
mouth or style Of hair Though you
VIII see that in most cases either the
hair or a hat is suggested by the
shadow, and you will be astonished
10 n what the least touch Of imagi-
nation will do.
You may squeeze up any kind of pa
per into any size of bail and the thing
works as sure as Sunday. But the
queerest part Of it is that you never
get the same face twice. Nature her
self Is not more prolific in variety of
forms n expressions in human faces
than is this ball in the differing char
acter OF its shadowy profiles.
Hard on Artists.
What is the use," said Mr.. Goatcher.
"of spending half your life learning a
difficult art and then waking up some
fine morning to find that some fellow
who doesn't even know the rudiments
has invented something that will do
all the mechanical work either in paint
ing OF sculpture while the artist lies
stretched on a lounge enjoying his
smoke and looking at it
But this Is a great thing for the
cartOoniSt and other illustrators. For
example, they can spend half an hour
tossing a ball on the paper and sketch
ing the shadows, and by this means
lay up a surprising stock Of faces, each
one delineating some special trait of
human chacharacter-a stock from
which they can make selections at any
time. A new bail and new shadows
win always furnish fresh additions 10
the collection. There is no end to the
variety"
Good Amusement Anyway
Whether this system Of getting pro-
files from shadows will ever be put to
any practical use is a matter Of very
much doubt in the minds Of many ar
fists to whom l have mentioned the
subject, but one thing is certain, it is
a very pretty and pleasant amusement
for a dull half hour. Children can
sketch the faces as Well as grown up
people. 1t is a diversion that can do
thnm no harm and NAV helm tn de
yelop their sense Of the artistic.
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