Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-07-09
GETTING YOUR PICTURE TAKEN
How 1t is Done in the Latest Style.
From tic panbury News.

From the Danbury News.l
Having n Photograph taken Is n Of
the great events in a mans life. Tbs
chief desire Is to look the very best,
and on the success of the picture
hinges in many cases the most import
ant epoch III lite. To work up n
proper appearance time enough Is
used which, II devoted to catching
fleas for the phosphorus. would canoe
the entire national debt and establish
a New York daily paper. When you
have completed your toilet you 60 TO
the gallery. and force yourself into
nonchalance of expression chat Is too
absurd for anything. Then you take
the chair, spread your legs gracefully.
appropriate u calm and indiuerent
look, and commence to perspire. An
a,tenuated man with a pale face, long
hair, and a spoiled nose, now comes
out of a cavern, and adjusts the cam
era. Their he gets back OF you u tells
you to sit rs far back as you can IN tne
chair. and that It has been q remark
ably backward Spring. After getting
YOU back till your spine interferes Win
the chair itself he shoves your head
iuto u pair of ice tongs, and dashes at
the camera again. Here, with q piece
of discolored velvet over his heaI, ne
bombards you In this manner your
chin out a little. please" The chin Is
protruded. THAT'S nicely now a
little more" The chin advances again
aud 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 posltlo'sas
to give you the appearance OF trying 70
lit 1t over your head. The other is
turned under itself, and has become so
sweaty that you begin to fear that It
will stick there permanently. A new
stream of pomade finds Its way ont
and starts downwnward. Then he
shakes your head in the tongs till 1t
settles right, and says 1t looks like rain
and puts your chin out again, and
punches out your chest, and says he
doesn't know what the poor are to 10
next Winter unless there Is a radical
change in affairs, aud then takes the
top Of your head in n hand and your
chin In the other. and gives your neck
a wrench that would earl: any
other man u prominent position i'll II
new hospital. Then he luns 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 ana
new pomade have started out. The
whites OF your eyes show n~npleasantly
and your whole body feel, rs II 1t
had been visited by m enormous
cramp, and another and much bigger
one was m%omentarily expected. Then
he points at something for yon to look
at /; tells you to look cheerful aud
composed, and snatches away the vel
vet. and pulls out his watch. When
he gets tired. and you feel rs II there
was very little left in this world to
live for, he restores the velvet, says It
Is an unfavorable day Tor a picture.
but he hopes for the best. and lmmedl-
ately disappears in his den. Then you
get up and stretch yourself. slap on
your hat, and Immediately sneak
home. feeling mean, BUNDLED, and al
together too wretched tor description.
The first friend who sees the picture
says he can see enough resemblance to
make certain that IL is you, but you
have tried to look TOO formal to be nat
ural and graceful.