The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-09-25

sent 1t back, swearing he would wear
an eye only that displayed the colors
Of his country. The Partisan artist
thereupon made him one that sported
the red and green of Haiti, and this
the jealous warrior wore proudly until
the day of his death.
False eyes were very expensive IL
the early stage of the art. A false eye
ranked with the jewels of a persons
possession and was frequently diverted
from its proper use to shine as an or
nament upon some part of the person
for which 1t had not been destined As
made today the cost of a false eye
varies from S. to SIS. The crux of the
art of its manufacture is in the prep
aration of the crystal. which must be
carefully tempered by gradual proc
ess to resist heat and cold and the
corrosive secretions of the socket for
which 1t Is intended. The crystal is
colored variously from a blush to a
yellowish white to simulate the actual
cornea In different stages of youth and
age. the white of the eye showing blue
In youth and following with age This
work of the eye is first blown, at the
end of a glass tube, into the shape of
closed tulip.
The eye artist Is seated at a table be
fore small heating apparatus that
contains blowpipes holding flames Of
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whose heat his face is protected by a
small hood over the top of the appa
ratus He has at hand thin sticks of
augmented glass, blue, gray. brown
red, yellow and green. in various
shades. Taking up glass tulip, fused
at one end of a small glass pipe. and
holding 1t In the flame, the artist APP
plies to it's tip with the other hand the
end of q stick of glass, which as Il
melts forms the ground color of the
iris of the particular eye he has in
view. The glass tulip is kept twirling
In the left hand while the tip of the col
ored glass stick is applied, so that by
degrees the point of the tulip is worn
away and q gradually encroaching
circle takes its place and forms the iris.
This, as 1t tends to lump. Is fiattened
every now and then by patting.
Whenever the glass eye IN its max
ing Is withdrawn from the fame for
even a moment 1t must again be &C
climated to the intense heat by first
introducing 1t into the lesser fame.
This simple precaution neglected, brit
tleness will ensue and the eye crack
on the first occasion Of its meeting the
cold air of a winters day. The fiecks
In the iris are cunningly initiated by
light, deft strokes with the different
colored glass sticks, all the time the
glass bulb revolving in the flame, and
now and then being blown to keep 1t
In proper shape. At last when the iris
has attained the proper diameter and
is f1ecked as it should be, stick of
black enamel is plugged into the CEN
ter and fused off when 1t has reached
a certain depth. This forms the pupil.
Some more stippling Is done to form
the specks about the pupil, then the
minute veins are traced on the white Of
the eye with stick of red glass
whose tip is melted and drawn out into
thread A stick of pure transparent
crystal is then taken and melted in the
fame until 1t spreads over the whole
surface Of the eye to give 1t the liquid,
lifelike look and depth.
The shell is now ready to be cut from
the bulb, shell that shall fit the
socket in which 1t is to be placed, with
the iris In just the right situation to
prevent a crossed or "wall eye" appear
ance The artist takes pair Of meas
uring dividers and lays off from the
iris certain distances on the cornea to
correspond with the actual width of
the vacant orbit. Putting the globe
again into the fame he introduces a
pointed instrument into its surface and
begins to trace the contour of the orbit
the glass peeling away In a strip as II
follows the path of the instrument
The edges are then polished and the
glass eye is ready to be inserted.-New
York Telegraph.