The age-herald., 1897-10-03
ARTIST OF NATURES MAKING.
PantlIeon Panduro the Foremost of His Talented
 Race.
From the Philadelphia Times.


 Guardalajara, Mex, Sept. 25.
 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrfNs the brsauh of life" So it is written, and so the first great modeler wrought, creating man in His own im- age, and of red clay, asst he name of the first man tells us. This was in the be- ginning today in the little village of San Pedro, outside the walls of Guardalajara, Pantelon Panduro fashioned from "the dust of the ground' from the red clay of Jalisco images of whatsoever God has created. breathing into them the breath of living art.
 The art of the Mexican5 is universal throughout the repubito. Every town and hamlet has it artist. yet there is but one Pantelon Panduro. Born on the 2Sth of July in the city of Guardalajara, aPn- duro, was 50 years old few days since. A Mexican eff the old Aztec type, he gives evidence of but slight Spanish inter- mixture. His shock of heavy black hair is but sparsely sprinlsieId with gray, his wide-set, all-seeing artist eyes are dark and piercing, yet capable of infinite ten derness. The father of five children, anduro is fortunate enough to have one son, Juan, a big, fine-looking, sturdy fellow, upon whom the mantle of his gen. jus has in some measure fallen. At all events, Juan is a partner in the business which they conduct at the quaint, com- fortbaGe home in little San Pedro. The workshops and studios are across the patio from the living rooms, but every where CId bits of clay in the court, un- der th9 pcr'taIes, over doorways, att test the dwelling place the craftsman. eff things. Diaz and Washington. Me Kinleiy and Bismawak, Juarez, Hidalgo and Maximilian, and every phase and form of human and animal life. Here Is a miniature gamblers ring. with the buckskin-clai players sprawling in the sun thsre is a tortila maker stooping over her stonss. or af agot gatherer bending under dlis load. livery type of Mexican life may be found executed with a truth ard marvelousness of detail that is little short of perfect. Panduro's burros are as particularly patient as the much-abussd animals themselves. His cheros and rancheros are as gallantly gay as their living prototypes
 Ths tourist who has vanity enoutgih to wish one for his own sake, should stay an extra day in GuardalaJara to have d bust made by Panduro very simple matter. You have but to leave an order at the shop and Pan1uro himself wilk wat upon you at your hotel. bringing with him a ball of clay and the few tool< of his craft, which are fiattened or pointed bits of wood and a thin steel blade that might have belonged to lancet in a. prehistoric existence. There is neither plummet nor measure, compass nor rule. The poser need not even sit very still. PaI,duro's quick eye sees ev- erything, and his delft fingers work true I wor,1sr if there is arlother artist in the wcmld wrlo models from life exactly as he does. Even if there fs, 1t will not be amiss to tell how he does it.
 Taking first a. ball of clay and rolling it irtio the semb}ance of a head. fle pro- e@eds. Two prods from a little poinItde stick mark the eye-spots. and a little pinch of the fingers pulls out nipse. This iS the bsginnine. Then follow the dataiis, bit by bit, added here car scraped off there. tial the finest nainiature of the face ard head is finished. This done, a quick slash of the knife and the head is split open behind the ears and scocped out hollow for the baking. A litt'e wet clay sticks the halves together ata1in, I and the whole by-and bW is set upon the nr,ck and bust. The detail of clothirg follows, much as a tailor or dress maker would go about cutting and fit- ting a garment of tha human figure.
 A bit of clay is pressed thin. dex- te'roais stroke of the knife blade finishes collar tie. jacket or coat portions. A few judiciol,s Dinches fit them into shane. The w1n1e thing may be over in al few hours the time of execution varying with the size of the piece. and the price ranging from eight to twenty-five dollars Mexf1sn money.
 You were taught to do this work here in Guardals jsra?" I a,s,xed. when snduro set a little rcd clay image of myself be- fore me.
 "si. si.' he said with the acquiescent affability of his race.
 And who was your taecher?"
 'I taught myseH he answered ssnl5lv. And se he did. for cd gave him knowl-
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