The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-09-18

an eye only that displayed the coloFs
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 We're very expensive In
the carly stage OF the art. A false eye
ranked with the jewels of persons
possession and was frequently diverted
from It's proper use to shine as an Or
nameut upon some part OF the person
for which it had not been destined As
made today the cost OF false eye
varies from 81 TO $50. The crux OF the
art Of its manufacture Is in the prep
nration OF the crystal, which must be
carefully tempered by gradual proc
ess 10 resist heat and cold and the
corrosive secretions OF the socket for
which it Is Intended The crystal IS
coIored Tariously from a blush to
yellowish white to simulate the actual
cornea IN different stages of youth and
age, the yrEite OF the eye showing blue
In youth ana yellowing with age This
enamel which is to form the ground
work of the eye IS first blown, Mt the
end OF a glass tube, into the shape of
a closed tulip.
The eye artist is seated Mt a table be
fore a small heating apparatus that
contains blowpipes holding flames OF
two different temperatures, from
whose heat his face is protected by
small hood over the top Of the appa-
ratus. He has at hand thin sticks of
pigmented glass, blue. gray, brown,
rcd. yellow and green, In various
shades Taking up glass tulip, fused
at one end of a small glass pipe, and
- IL, fe5f m
plies TO It's tip with the other hand the
end of a stick of glass, which as 1t
meIts 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 n gradually encroaching
circle takes its place and forms the Iris.
This. as It tends to lump, Is hattened
every now and then by pattinS.
Whenever the glass eye In Its max
ing is withdrawn from the fame for
even n moment 1t must again be &C
cIimated to the intense heat by first
introducing It into the lesser flame.
This simple precaution neglected, BRIT
tleness will ensue and the eye crack
on the first occasion of its meeting the
cold air OF n winters day. The hecks
In the iris are cunningly initiated BY
light, deGt strokes with the different
colored glass sticks, I'LL the time the
glass bulb revolving in the fame, ana
now and then being blown to keep it
In proper shape. At last when the IRIS
has attained the proper diameter ana
Is fecked as it should be, stick OF
black enamel is plugged into the CEN
ter and fused on when it has reached
a certain depth. This forms the pupil.
Some more stIppling is done to FORM
the Epecks about the pupil, then the
minute veins are traced on the white OF
the eye with n stick of red glass
whose tip is melted and drawn out into
a thread. A stick OF pure transparent
crystal is then taken and melted in the
dame until it spreads over the whole
surface of the eye to give 1t the liquid
lffelike look and depth
The shell Is now ready to be cut from
the bulb. a shell that shall 6t the
socket in which it is to be placed, with
the iris in Just the right situation to
prevent a crossed or wall eye appear
ancc. The artist takes n pair Of meas
uriug dIvlders and lays on from the
iris certain distances on the cornea to
correspond with the actual width OF
the vacant orbit. Putting the globe
aRnin into the flame he introduces a
pointed instrument into its surface and
begins to trace the contour OF the orbit,
the glass peelIng away In q strip as 1t
follows the path of the instrument.
The edges are then polished and the 4
glass eye is ready to be inserted.-Eew
York Telegraph.