Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-07-26

Changing Expressions Of the Counte-
nance Successfully Caught by the

From the New York Sun
As S,m reporter stepped up to the show
window of store in which photographs were
for sale he noticed among the portraits OF
James G. Blaine, Fanny Davenport and other
celebrities, three photographs OF a child's face
on one card. 1t was the pictorial representa-
ton OF the process of evolution of a smile into a
peal of laughter Even had ii been without
any special meaning the photograph would
have attracted attention; for the chiId's face
was lovely and looking out as it did from
among the many famous men and women Of the
world, such childish innocence had a speciai
charm. The first picture on the card was en-
titled Funny" The face was lit up by smile
that almost verged upon laugh The next
was called Very Funny" The smile had rome
over into the laugh. The third was the merriest
face Imaginable, and under il was printed
Very, very Funny" 1t really was very. very
funny. 1t made you feel cheerful to look into
such merry face. You could not but think
that the originator had hit upon a very happy
idea.
The reporter entered the store and asked II
there We're any other photographs OF that kind
to be- had
"Oh, yes" said the dealer. ..that Is the second
of the SERIES and there have been two Others
since. Here they are. It's an English idea
that's taken wonderfully over here. They're
nifty cents apiece. which is double the price we
ask for imperial single photographs. but We sell
great many Of them. Whoever designs them
knows the popular taste"
he then showed the reporter one which was
even funner than the first. Ii also represented
various degrees of the same emotion. viz, the
evolution of the pout into the lusty screech 1t
was called 1.-THE Young AuctiOneer." and like
the other picture. consisted of three photographs
of the same chlld's face on one card In the
first, which was entitled .'Guing!" the Inns were
quivering and tears trembling on the eyelids.
In the second. also entitled "Going!" the tears
were rolling down the cheeks, and the lips auiv-
erinG faster. In the next, "Gone," the child
was screaming so that you felt like calling to
the nurse to bring some sugar water
"As the reporter laid 1t down the dealer said:
There Is one for dog, especially pug, fanciers-
'lhree OF kind-three pugs graded i'm size
sitting contentedly beside one another. This
here is the pictorial expression of q clever play
upon words. and he handed the reporter another
entitled Happy and Careless and "Cappy and
Hairless" Over the first of the catch phrases
was the bright, beaming face Of Young girl
In old age-a cap drawn tightly over her bald
pate and spectacles over her ewes. As the dealer
happily expressed it, she looked like her own
grandmother" The other example of the Eng
lis, ,ish series was the now famous picture of the
little boy and dog which comic paper recently
varied over the title of me and Jack"
The dealer also told the reporter that the sue
cess OF the English series had led to the begin
ming OF an American series, and he showed two
cards each with about fifty babies heads. They
were called respectively. GOOD Morning" and
GOOD Night" In the first the babies were all
good-natured and cheerful looking in the second
they were In various stages OF the bowling
state.
81 don't suppose" said the reporter, ''that
these are from life"
No." was the dealers reply 81 understand
that they are drawn in black and white by artists
and then photographed from the picture"