The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-01-31
Oh, HORRORS!
How a Young Lady was Mortified at
Her Own Picture.
Correspondence San Francisco Call.

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How a Young Lady was Mortified at |
Her Own Picture.
Correspondence San Francisco Call
A most extraordinary sensation has oc- |
CURED in the American colony of Lon
don this week. A young lady from |
Philadelphia, who has visited yonr city
more than once, and is well known in |
society there was walking down Regent
street with the mother and sister of a
youny gentleman of rank, who is said to
be counting the American girl, when the
attention of all three was attracted bv
some photographs of notable people and
others exposed in n window, and they
drew up to look at them. Fancy the as
constituent, the horror, the shame, the
humiliation of the American girl on see
ing her own photograph exposed there
among the others, but in the most amaz-
ing shape it is possible to conceive. Her
head, her face, the aran cement of her hair,
the turn of her neck, it was impossible to
mistake; and yet, there she was, almost
as undraped as the Venus de Medici-in
fact, got up in tigts and fieshings, and Ia
bled "Mazeppa" She rubbed her eyes,
she clasped her forehead, thinking her
vision was falling her, or her mind go
ing; yet there could be no mistake.
Stare as she would, she met still the
knowledge that her own bewitching
loveliness was there depicted.
What can this meang" she cried to
the elderly lady, her lips blanched with
shame and terror.
Il really cannot tell you," replied
Lady Disdain, with steelhard eye and
icy voice. "You perhaps can tell US
whether on any occasion, in America,
you were i'll the habit of appearing in
this dress ?''
"Oh, what do you mean to insinuate :"
uttered the poor girl. "DO YOU think
ever stood as 'Mazeppag Oh, how cru
ell of you to speak So"
ut is certainly your portrait" added
the other lady.
By this time one or two bystanders had
drawn up to the window, and noticing
the likeness, were nudgIng each other.
at is some coincidence-Of course it
cannot be meant for me-"
You had better take cab and go
home, and tell your father about it" said
the lady still with her frigid manner.
My daughter and l have some calls to
make"
In halfdaZed state OF mind the young
Philadelphia drove home and told her
father of what had happened. To get
back to that shop, to have thave Photograph
out of the window, to demand an eXpla-
nation of the stationer, was not the work
Of may minutes for the enraged father.
But though it was easy enough to de-
mand an explanation, it was not so easy
to get one. The photograph bore no i'm
print whatever, and the stationer could
only refer to the person who had sold il
to him-a dealer in photographs by
wholesale, not a photographer himself.
And so inquiry went on, and nobody
1 \ 4. Il
| graph. Those who sold them were quite
innocent, and really supposed it to be a
| picture of some actress playing "MaZep-
pa" OF course it is cooked" picture
only the head and neck of the Amer
lean lady's photograph, the rest that OF
some one else, and together the picture
represents one the most beautiful wo-
men it is possible to conceive. Dozens
upon dozens were found ready for sale
and dealers frankly stated that the photo
had sold enormously already.
The London firm who took the picture
which furnished the head, were visited
and charged with selling the picture, but
they were indignant at the insinuatiOn
to people of their responsibility and
standing, and talked of suing for libel
Suspicion now falls upon the servants
in the house, one of whom might easily
have distracted photo out of package
of them which has been kept hitherto in
an unlocked drawer of the young lady'S
writing desk. Of course all plead limo
cence, and are ready to take their oaths
upon their sacred words of homer; bu
the father says he can command oath:
enough of his own abOut the business
and as for the VOWS of honor, sacred o.
profane, he don't take much stock il
them. A good deal of interest clusters
/ q hnnf tho m in ri IN ha at fifllHf
to be taken by the young gentleman-tht
party of the other part. He called i'm
mediately, and aided the father in max
ing inquiries; but papa says the littl'
matter shall not go step further unit
the mother and sister make fOrma
apology for the rudeness to his daughte
at the time the discovery was made.
may add that there is plenty of Law
in this country to punish the delinquent
in such case; but so far the guilty
! parties have not been discovered. Blu
the father is still on the war-path, ant
may scalp them yet.
/ believe the miserable device O
cooking" photographs originated il
Paris, for you will remember how eneI
getically Dumas fills protested agains
the picture, shown in all the shops, q
his father sitting holding Menkin on hi
knees. Then it went to Germany, wher
Bismark was shown standing with hi
arm clasped around the waist of hand
some actress. Bismark was so Offende,
, at this that he sent to all the newspaper
! for publication a beautiful letter dis
claiming its authenticity real mode
of fine writing and enunciatiOns of higl
religious sentiments. Lately Canon Fal
rar, the eminent divine, has had to pre-
test against sensational picture of hin
, self, representing him in the act of pra,
er, with eyes uplifted a la Maud Bron!
cOmbe. There has been large sale for
photo of Mr.. Gladstone, showing him i
his shirt sleeves and holding an ak,
which was an Invention, the eX-Premit
having never posed for such pIctur
|, But this is the first time l ever heard {
such an outrage perpetrated upon lad
{ in private life, and moving in the higl
, est social circles in London.
y The matter has caused so much indi.
nation and so much comment, that it
, not impossible it may check the mani
! now so prevalent among society beautit
for having themselves photographed f
i sale at shilling a carte de Visite.