The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-11-14

Smiles.

The modern stage, the modern press
and the modern pulpit have demonstrate
ed that it is grand stride toward the
emancipation of man from the shackles
of bogus gravity and the thraldom OF
bilious hypocrisy. am proud to know
that in my own native land it is not
considered flippant and giddy to smile,
and that men are actually obtain
ing an honest livelihood by assisting
nature. For long time the battle
between the comedian and the lunatic
asylum was an unequal one. but in the
later years, the former seems TO be in
the ascendancy. And yet there are
those who still yearn for the asylum.
There are many varieties of the genus
smile. There's the smile that is child
like and bland, the cultivated smile,
and the plebeian that ripples forth like
the first joyous laugh of the boiler
factory, and that spreads out with \
gurgle that closes the eyes, trots out
the wisdom teeth and then shows
roguish dimpie in the tonsils.
There might be enumerated, also,
the classical smile. the subdued smile,
the parlor smile. the sacred smile, the
before-election smile, the after-election
smile and the smile that you get two
for quarter, called the twofor smile.
Then we have tine stage smile and
the portrait smile. 1t might be we'll
to digress here and refer to the portrait
smile more in detail. Kind. genial and
wealth-pamDercd reader. rs you sit ia
your gaudy but still rich and voluptuous
apartments this beautiful morning,
with fnnt tho MIA did
ever stop 10 consider the smile that
LOOKS out at you from the portrait of
one YOU might otherwise love? DO /
refresh your memory? Do you call to
mind the genial smirk which is. in fact,
the thin silk overskirt of Joy cover
ing the SILICA sham of a nameless woe?
Do you happen TO have about your
house the photograph OF u friend whose
petr.licd gaicty fills your eyes with
briny weep.
JOY is something that we cannot
si"Zr ruthlcssIy and lead it into the
pho o-raphcr's laboratory by the ear.
I've lricd that. | ALWAYS leave nv
umbrella and my hope behind when |
90 mo the photographer gilded he'll.
| can iau%m whilc the dentist pulls out
my sound teeth and plugs the poor
ones. and | can even be gay while
nature and the cucumber of commerce
":c engaged in mortal combat, but I
e,n not ailcc. a joy that | do not feel
NLilc the cast-irOu hat-rack of the artist
leans against my love of home, and the
artist bids Inc look at u place on the
wall that is frecklcd with iodine.
People who will look ut my portrait
in the Vatican Mt Rome, New York,
will notice that it has this panied ex-
preston and wild. hunted look. as
though | hal dodgcd into the photo
grapner's To cvaie Il creditor or long
sutlcrIn and relentless vigilance COM
miitee; but those VINO think SO are in
error. do not call to mind q photo
graph that l ever had taken under
those circumstances.
| am positive that the art of photo
graphy is upon the eve of grand
stride toward perfection. Those who
have never seen ANYTHING on the eve of
Il gran stride will find little of interest
in what am about 10 say; but the day
is not far distant when the sane man
will have his photograph pulled without
the administration of an aneSthetic.
Cut this out and see if am not GhL-
BtH NJe, an DeHUer OIlitIOH.