Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-03-30

n .As-, .. -- dollars. The crux of the art of it's Manufacture is in the preparation of the crystal. which must be carefully tempered by a gradual process to re- sist heat and cold and the corrosive secretions of the socket for which it is intended. The crystal is colored variously from bluish to yellowish white, to simulate the actual cornea in different stages of youth and age. the white of the eye showing blue in youth. and yelowing with age. This enamel which is to form the eround- work of the eye is first blown. at the end of a glass tube, into the shape of q closed tulip.
 The eye artist is seated at a table before a small heating apparatus that contains blow-pipes holding flames of two different temperatures from whose heat his face is protected by a small hood over top of the apparatus He has at hand thin sticks Of pig mented 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 it in the flame. the artist applies t6 it's tip with the other hand the ord of stick of o1 i-bicI meltS forms the ground color of the ilis of the particular eye he has in view The glass tulip is kept twirl- ing in the left hand while the tip of the colored glass stick is applied, so that by degrees the point of the tulip is worn away and gradually en- croaching circle takes it's place and forms the iris. This as it tends to lump is fattened every now and then by batting.
 Whenever the glass eye i'll it's mak- ing is withdrawn from the flame for even moment is must again be ac- climated to the intense heat by first in troducing it into the lesser flame This simple precaution neglected brittle ness will ensue and the eye crack on the first occasion of it's meeting the cold air of a winters day. The fecks in the iris are eunningly initiated by light deft strokes with the different colored glass sticks. all the time tho glass bulb revolving in the flame and now and then being blown to keep it in proper shape. At last when the iris has attained the proper diameter and is flecked as it should be, stick of black enamel is plugged in the center. and fused off when it has reached a Some mort stippling is done to form the specks about the pupil then the minute veins are traced on the white of the eye with a stick of red glass whose tip is melted and drown out into a thread. A stick of pure trans parent crystal is then taken and melt ed ill the flame until it spreads over the whole surface of the eye to give it the liquid. lifelike look and depth.
 The shell is now ready to be cut from the bulb. a shell that shall fit the socket in which it is to be placed with the iris in just the right situa- tion to prevent a crossed or wall eye" appearance. The artist takes a rair of measuring dividers and lays off from the iris certain distances on the cornea to correspond with the ac- tual width of the vacant orbit. Put ting the globe again into the flame he introduces a pointed instrument into it's surface and begins to trace the contour of the orbit. the glass peelne away in a strip as it follows the path of the instrument. The edges are then polished and the glass eye is ready to be inserted.