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Show liovv i'iskT Casts Are Mafic. "'.There do ;:1! these plaster figures come frera?" I heard ; nc ore impure the other il.ty. They are made right here in Spring-fill. Spring-fill. In an old. : j-.rery building on Wist Wt)rthi:;:vle.i I v ---l is a room where these are pre.b.m. ' i.i l-rg-.: numlKTs. The Italian who ' .e.s i h.e w-.n k is ;:n intelligent ionng man v.dlh a fair knowledge of com-' mon F.Dglhik word. .vhieh ho can string into short set.! ear's. Visitors are no", wel-tome wel-tome dt:ru.'.g ihe i-.-.rning hours when La is otla j. t' i. ia the aftercoon he opens the tleor, ;::; s:r- by it r.t his work cf c' .::dr:c; e.n-i p a 'a:: 1"h; molds are nvale ia : wo or tla,' e-. ;;ee.;rtii!i; 3 the i:-:e;.ml sh-pe .f i 1 . e :.. Thc-:s sec thn are clamped to.-;c: h.-r and t be plasto: poured into t hem msd allowed to become hr-.rl. In removi ng I he cast s occasionally a nose is broken from a Virgin Mary, cr an arm af.Te'.-i-a 5 pre -Led. S.uiiei i;iiC-sfaJ,ke;u-d r-' : JJ:- t'"i t.j.i-ar of " " "U'dsaiaTi is ndsaaig. Daws the molder .urt-v these into the wa-te'' Oh, no. lie simj'ly puts ou a nose, adds' a spear, builds up a new beard and mends the arm with freshly mixed planter, using a small smoothing . trowe! and his thumb for tools. When the cast has drie I: : smooths up the surface with the trowel, sad scrape--, oil the Cnn left by the flask pints. Then he gilds them in gold and bronze, and the fecr.nd day they are ready to be peddled rb- .at. the v, , ec! s. Springfield i'fass.) llon-ctead. |