The art of amusing : being a collection of graceful arts, merry games, odd tricks, curious puzzles, and new charades : together with suggestions for private theatricals, tableaux, and all sorts of parlor and family amusements (1866)
Bellew, Frank, 1828-1888 · New York : Carleton ; London : S. Low · leaf 237
for, as we beheld it,there was the real flesh tint, and the eyes rolledfearfully. Startling and complete as is the illusion in thiscase, it is very simply managed. Get some personwith a high forehead and tolerably long hair, andpaint under the eyes a pair of eyebrows, and on theforehead a nose and… … the body and half the face. Brush the hair out toresemble a beard, and you have a perfect representation of a bodyless head. For painting the moustaches and eyebrows, Indian-ink or burnt cork will answer. There is one advantage which the spectacle canboast of: it affords the ladies an opportunity…
Amusements · Tricks
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