The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-16
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As everything connected with Bern
hardt Is making money, OF course the
photographer M iu for his share.
Sarony, the photographer IN question,
paws a certain royalty upon every PIE
ture that he sells lie reports that
more than eighty thousand pictures
have already been sent over the coun-
try. As things of beauty | eaunot say
much for even the best OF these pc
lures the expression i. bright IN mauE
of them. but the more We see OF bern
hardt the more settled II the conviction
that she i. no beauty. To her credit
il must be said that her picture are eI-
tremelv modest there Is nOn OF the
display of flesh which most actTes>e'
think necessary, possibly because Bern
hardt has no .u~perfuous flesh TO dis
nlay. Whether this i 50 or not tn.
fact that she IL deccutly covered IN Al
of the pictures now 30 much IN Vogucl-
= comfort.
As she tells the following story Of her
friend and rival, Nile. Crolzette OF the
Theatre Francois, it l. certain that the
actresses of that house are not over
prudish a. to displaying their persons
II seems that CrOlzettc was induced b.
a famous sculptor to pose tor hIm a,
Truth" naked, and q lamp III her
hand. When the statue Wa done
Croizette took several Of her friends 10
see il; among them was a rather -tup q
voung man who said w ny, Made
moiselle, do you carry a lamp IN your
hand p Il am looking for NY clothes,
she answered. But Sarah modesty
ha. not got her into New York society.
/ have not yet been invited TO meet
Mile. Rernhardt'' at any Of the houses
O feminent New Workers, and neither has
any one else SO far as | can find out. The
actress has. according to report, retOrted
for this Indifference by saying "a woman
with no husband and several children
shocking! But | see lots Of women with
several husbands andno children, which
is much more shocking.
Eighty thousand turkeys were served
up on Thursday last IN remembrance OF
the turkey hunt undertaken two and
fifty years ago in New England, when
the colonists had gathered their first
harvest. No one need want fora turkey
dinner on Thanksgiving Day in New
York, all the charitable lnstltlons keep
ing open house. 1t is a well known
fact in newspaper offices / that about
half the nevsboys are disabled the day
after Thanksgiving on account Of the
amount Of food which they have swal-
lowed. For forty-eight hours they lie
In a sort of bOa-like stupor. Many OF
them confess to four dinners during the
day. As soon as they eat a good din
ner at one institution they are off to
another. To prevent this abuse of a
good thing, the institutions have en-
deaYored to tx upon a common hour
for dinner, but the street urchlns are
sharp, and manage to get more than L.
good for them. \ system OF tickets was
tried some years ago, but was abandoned
because it led to speculation in them.
The markets were never finer than this
year, and trade never better. L had a
a long talk with the veteran turkey
dealer of the city, Halsey Knapp, on
Thanksgiving eve. lie thinks that
turkeys have ~degenerated since he sold
his first one in Washington market IN
1915. There no such birds now as then.
he thinks. In 1919 he sold q turkey
weighing 81 pounds for 500. He has
never seen its mate. The largest goose
he ever sold weighed - pounds and
brought $50. In ISG2 Knapp sen TO
President lincoln Il pair Of capOns
weighing p pounds.
The results Of a wonderful discovery
in photography which Is attracting the
attention of painters aud sculptOrs es-
p~ecially are now to be seen in New
York at one or two Of our leading pho
,or-o,h0~- NFl,r = E,,v-p ~ 81, -,
Simultaneous process Is by 40 means new,
but has never been brought to its pres
ent practical perfection until now. |
saw last night at Rockwoods some
wonderful pictures Of animals and men
In motion which make a painter work
easy. The new plates are made with
s%elatine instead OF collodion. The gel
atIne covering makes 50 sensitive q
plate that new methods Of opening and
closing the aperture of the camera have
had to be devised because the hand l.
the slow. a pneumatic rubber bulb Is
now used to throw up aud bring down
again a disc of black velvet placed Y
the lens of the camera. Attached to
this bulb is a long tube, which allows
the operator to walk about the room
and when the sitter least expects it to
get a good picture taken in the fraction
of a second. Taking children is the
easiest thing in the world it Is not
even necessary for them to keep still.
Out of doors lockwood has taken
horses at full trot, ships under full sail,
with each wave showing as if the water
had frozen at that particular second
Children at play make capital pictures,
people talking, dancing, laughing,
yawninS; in a word, this new process
does away with the stiff unnatural ex-
preston which most people put on
when In front of a camera; the new
pictures look as if the person represent
ed could almost talk. Roger, the
sculptor, whose terra-cotta groups are
known so widely got lockwood to make
some photographs of wrestlers from
which he could work. The athletes
came and went to wrestling, without
any regard to the presence of the pho
tographer. Their instructions were
simply to wrestle as if in a match.
Rogers held the rubber bulb in hi.
hand and whenever he liked the posi-
ton the men were in he squeezed the
ball and the picture was taken. A
the end of the bout he had a dozen ex
cellent pictures which could be taker
by no other process. Painters have
within the last month had picture.
taken of COWS grazing or walking, 0
pigs feeding from troughs, &c. Pho
~tographers say that the old process 0
taking pictures is doomed. RockwooC
has already sold his head-rests for ole
iron. 1t Is no longer necessary to keel
still.-H. III. III.