Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-10
Sitting for a Photograph.

Having photograph taken is one of
the great events in mans life. The
chief desire is to look the very best, and
on the success of the picture hinges, in
many cases, the most important epoch
III lie. 10 work up a proper appear
ance time enough is used which. if de-
voted to catching feas for their phos-
Ehorous, would cancel the entire national
debt and establish New York daily
paper. When you have completed your
toilet you go to the gallery and force
yourself INTO nonchalence of express
sion that is too absurd for ANYTHING.
Ihen you take the chair, spread YOUR
legs gracefully, appropriate a calm and
1ndlfterent look, and commence to per-
splre. An attenuated man with a bale
lace, long hair, and soiled nose. now
comes out OF cavern and adjusts the
camera. Then he gets back of Won and
tells you to sit back as far as you can in
the chair, and that it has been a re-
markably backward spring. After get
ting you back till your spine interferes
with the chair itself, he shoves vour
head back into pair of ice-tonps. and
dashes at the camera again. Here
with piece of discolored velvet over
his head, he bombards you in this man
ner: "Your chin out little. please y
The chin is protruded. "That's nicely.
now a little more" The chin advances
again, and the pomade commences to
melt and start for freedom. Then he
comes back to you and slaps one of
your hands on your leg in such a posi-
ton as to give you the appearance of
trying to lift it over your head. The
other IS turned under itself, and has be-
come so sweaty that you begin to fear
that II will stick there permanently. A
new stream of pomade finds its way
out, and starts downward. Then he
shakes your head in the tongs till it set
ties right, and says it looks like rain.
and puts your chin out again. and
punches out your chest, and saws he
doesn't know what the poor are to do
next winter unless there is a radical
change ID affairs, and then takes the
top OF your head in one hand and your
chm IN the other, and gives your neck
wrench that would earn any other
man prominent position in a new
hospital. Then he runs his hand
through your hair and scratches your
scalp, and steps back to the camera
and the injured velvet for another look.
BY this time new sweat and pomade
have started out. The whites of your
eyes show unpleasantly, and your whole
body feels as if it had been visited by
an enormous cramp, and another and
much bigger one was momentarily ex-
pected. Then he points at something
for you to look at tells you to look
cheerful and composed, and snatches
away the velvet, and pulls out his watch. |
When he gets tired, and you feel as if
there was but very little left in this
world to live for, he restores the velvet.
says it is an unfavorable day for a pic
ture, but he hopes for the best, and i'm
mediately disappears in his den. Then
you get up and stretch yourself, slap ON
your hat, and Immediately sneak home.
feeling mean, humbled, and altogether
too wretched for description. The first
TREND who sees the picture says he can
see enough resemblance to make certain
that 1t is you, but you have tried to look
too formal to be natural and graceful
Meas.