The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-09-01


81 should think you would meet with
some amusing incidents in your bust
ness" said q Tribune reporter to apho-
tegrapher down town the other day.
Yes, do. l sometimes run in the
darkroom to have good laugh all to
myself. It wouldn't do to laugh before
the people, you know"
"Queer cases? Why there's one in
that other room now. That woman has
been here since ten o'clock with that
little child. have taken ten pictures
OF it. and spoiled sixteen plates. Why,
l worked hard till one o. clock, and then
l tod her l must have something to eat.
She wanted to get good expression on
the child. Now, when baby is bob
bling around and goo. gooing' or CRYING,
have to take them .on the fv,' or
whenever l can. l can't stop to get
an expression on them l have made
all manner of noises and grimaces, and
make a perfect fool out Of myself to at
tract their attention and make them sit
still. When everything else fails,
light some paper. I have burned up
many newspaper, and wonder I
haven't burned the shop up. But thew
will watch fire little while.''
"a good many country people come
here ..vla should e, las SUPPOSE,
of our trade. We are near the ferries,
and so get great many New Jersey
people. Once IN while have a coun-
tryman who has never been photo
graphed. He will want to know if his
cars are all right or if his hair is in dis
order, and he seems to care more about
getting his clothes in the picture than
his face. When everything is ready
and l take this pole with the pi 'ture for
him to fix his eyes on, put it in its prop
er place, and say, Look ut this I'm
blamed if he won't get up and come and
inspect it, and have to pose him all
over again.
Zone wishes to know all about the
iron prop that steadies his head. Every-
thing seems so mysterious to him.
will I have to sit still fifteen min
utes? he will ask. ooh! no. l say,
about fifteen seconds Then when
done he will say, oh, you did make
me sit still full ten minutes
"a young fellow about sixteen came
here once who seemed afraid of the
machine. would tell him where to
fix his eyes, but as soon as I turned to
the camera he would be looking with a
scared expression. made picture of
him at last, and he was overjoyed. He
really seemed to imagine it was going
to hurt him. Negroes generally take
we'll. One nice thing about them is
that they will never ten you to do this
way or that, but merely say, Make
me a picture We must be careful,
though. about their noses. They are
naturally inclined to turn up, and if
we don't look out we Will magnify
them into perfect rights.
1--WE photograph a good many
sailors, and they are the perfect sitters.
l can go out of the room after have
posed them and stay half all hour, and
they will not stir a muscle Or wink an
eye while l am gone"
"Do you get Chinaman often?''
"Not often here. though l used to
when l worked further up town. A
Chinaman sits well. after you get him
posed, but he is just like piece of
wood. If you try to turn his head a
little, you have to turn his shoulders
and the chair and the whole house,
might say, with him. Chinamen's eyes
are just like glass. They seem to have
no depth of color, and reflect the light
so that they just glare in a picture.
The only good eyes l ever got from a
Chinaman were those of high toned
fellow who had good position as stew
ard on yacht. One day he came
wearing some huge blue spectacles.
They had glasses on the side as we'll as
in front. | told him it would never do,
for | expected it would make just two
big blotches in the picture. But he
said they were part of his costume and
must go in. I peeped through the
cylinder, and could not see vestige
of his eye through the glasses, and
thought l was in for frightful picture.
But those eyes took through the blue
glass splendidly, and he was so pleased
that he ordered large number of the
photographs. 1 have been thinking
since Of taking all Cinnamon through
blue glass.
"One of the finest pictures ever
made was that of a negro woman up
town. She dressed herself up gorge.
ously, and painted her face, putting
plenty of red on her cheeks. The pict-
ure was little dark, like that of
Cuban, perhaps, but you would never
have thought it was that of negro
woman. MANY people admired it,
do you have to photograph animals
often?"
mo, and do not want to, though
IL ia not hard Tn uot a ,,;oturo If a do.
or even a cat, and horses usually stand
we'll. A man came once with mon
key, which he wanted photographed
sitting on his hand. The monkey was
a little fellow, and he brought him in
his pocket. Just as we went to take
the cover off the machine the monkey
turned like flash and jumped into the
mans pocket. IN. r. Tribune.
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