The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-07-26
SITTING FOR 4 PHOTOGRAPH.


SITTING FOR 4 PHOTOGRAPH.
Having Il photograph taken is one OF
the great events of Il mans life. The
chef desire is to look the very best, and
on the success of the picture hinges, in
many eases, the most important epochs
in life. To work up the proper appear
ance time enough is used which, if de-
voted to catching tleas for their phosp-
horus, would cancel the entire national
debt and establish New Iu.l daily
paper. When you have completed
your toilet you go to the gallery and
force yourself into nonchalcncc of eN-
preston that it is too absu:d f.,r any
thing. Then you tal<cthc chair, spread
your legs carefully, appropriate calm
and very indifferent look and commence
pale face, long hair and soiled nose
now comes out of :, cavern, and adjusts
the camera. Then he gets back Of you
and tells you to sit back as far as you
can in the chair, and that it has !: re-
mari<abie backward spring. After get
ting YOU back till your spine intcrIcres
With the chair itself, he shovcs your
head into Il pair OF ice tongs, and dashcs
ut the camera again. Here, witha piece
of di-eolorcd velvet over his head, he
bombar,ls you in this manner: "Nour
chin out'a little, please The chin is
protruded. 'That's nicely; now little
morc.' The chin advances again, and
the ponladc commences to melt and
start for freedom. Then lie comes back
to you and slaps one of his hands on
your leg i'll such position AS to give
you the appearance of trying to lift it
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. \ new stream of
pomadc finds its way out and starts
downward. Then he shakes your head
in the tongs till it settles right, and says
it looks like rain, and puts your chin
out again, and punches out your chest,
and says he doesn't Know what the
pot'l arc W tS H'At winter ttiilcSS tncrc
is a radical change in affairs, and then
| takes tho pot of your head in one hand
and Hnur chin in the other, and gives
your neck Il wrench tltat would earn
amy othcr mau 4 prominent position in
q now hospital. Then he runs his hand
through Your huir and scratches Your
scalp, and steps back to ti" camera and
the injured velvet for another look.
BY this time new sweat and puii1adc
have started out. The whites OF your
eyes show unn!easantly, your whole
body seems a; ii it had been visited by
an enormous cranp, and an another
and much bigger one was nlomCntarily
expected. Then he points at some
look cheerful and imposed. and snatch
e. away the velvet, and pulls out his
watch. When hc gets tired, and YOU
feel a. if there was but very little loft in
this world to live for, he restores the
velvet, says il is an unfavorahlc day
for Il picture, but nc hopes for the best,
and Immediately disaprcars in his den
Then you get up and stretch yourself,
slap on pour hat, and Immediately
sneak home, feeling mean, humble, and
altogether too Wrctchcd for description
The first friend who s"Cs the picture
says he can see enough resemblance to
make certain it il you, but you have
tried to look too formal to be NATURAL
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