The Worthington advance., 1882-02-09
Observation-Disclosures TRIAL.

fsohavl0r Qi humans and Brutes Before the
from the New York Tribune. -. 80, !.
:! Il should think you would meet with
some amusing incidents in your business :"
said Tribune reporter to photographer
the other day.
Yes. I do. I sometimes run in the dark
room to have good laugh all to myself. 1t
wouldn't do to laugh before the people. you
know. ~: .i'.' '','>' 49, -
Queer casesa Why, there's one in the
here since 10 O'clock with that little child.
have taken ten pictures Of it, and spoiled
sixteen plates. Why, worked hard till
o'clock, and then I told her I must havo
something to eat. She wanted to got good
expression on the child. Now, when baby
. is bobbinR around or goo. .gooing' or cry
ing, have to take them on tho fly, or
whenever can. can't stop to get an ex-
preston on Them have made all man.
neR Of noises aud grimaces, and make a
parfect fool cut Of myself to attract their
: attention and make them sit still: When
everything else fails, light some paper.
have burned up many o newspaper, aud
wonder haven't burned the shop up. Bat
they will watch a fire little while"
A good many country people come here,
should suppOse?" =
Yes; in fact, that's the main source Of
our trade. We are near the ferries, and 20
get good many New Jersey people. Once
in while have countryman who has
never been photographed. He will want
to know if his ears arc all right or it his
lair is in disorder, and he seem to care
more about getting his elothers in the pic
tures than: his face. When everything is
ready and I tako this pole with the picture
for him to Tx his eyes on; put it III its prop
er place, and say, Look at this I'm
blamed If he won't get up and inspect it,
and l have to pose him all over again.
"One wishes to know nll about the iron
prop that steadies his head. Everything
seems SO mysterious to him. will I have
to sit still fifteen minutes?' he will ask.
Oh! no. I say, about fifteen seconds
Then when done he will say, oh, you did
mpke me sit still full ten minutes
'Ay oung fellow about 16 came here once
who seem afraid of the machine. I would
tell him where to fix his eyes, but as soon
as turned to the camera he would be look
ing with e scared expression. made a
picture Of him at last, and ho was over
joyed. He really seemed to imagine it was
going to hurt him. Negroes generally tako
we'll. One nice thing about them is that
they will never toll you to do this way or
that, but merely say, Make me picture.
noses. They are naturally inclined to turn
upand if we don't look ont We will mag
nify them into perfect frights.
"We photograph q good many sailors, and
they are the perfect sitter. can 20 out
Of the room after l have posed them and
stay half an hour, and they will nos stir Il
muscle or wink au eye while I an gone I"
DO you Get Chinaman often?"
Not ofen here, though l used to when I
worked further mp town. A Chinaman
sits we'll after You get him posed, but he is
just like piece Of wood. II you Try to
turn his head Il little you hare to turn lis
shoulders and the chair and the whole
house, might say, with him. Chinanlens s
eyes seem to have no depth of color, and
reflect the light SO that they just glare iii a
picture. The only good eyes I ever got
from, Chinaman were those Of high
toned fellow who had 4 good position as
steward Oh a yacht. Ono day he came wear
ing some hinge blue spectacles. They had
glasses Oh the side Of the eyes as vel! as in
front. told him it would not do, for ex-
pected it would just make two big bIotches
in the picture. But he said they were part
of his costume and must 60 in. peere3
"
vislage Of his eye through the glasses; and
thought was in for frghtfu picture
But those eyes took through tue blnn glass
splendidly, and he WAS so pleased that he Or
dered q large number of tho photographs.
have been thinking since of taking ell
Cinnamon through blue glass.
"One Of the finest pictures I ever made
was that of negro woman up town. She
dressed herself up gorgeously, and painted
her face, putting plonty Of red on her
cheeks. The picture was a little dark. like
that Of a Cuban, perhaps, but you would
never have thought it was of a negro wo-
man. Many people admired it,
DO you have to photograph animals
often?"
mo, and do not want to, though it is
not hard to get a picture of 4 dog, or even o
cat. and horses usually stand we'll. A man
Came with a monkey, which he wanted
photographed sitting on his hand. The
monkey was little fellow, and he brought
him in bis pocket. Just as We went to take
the, cover off the machine the monkey
turned like a fash and jumped into the
mans pocket"