The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-10-03
TAKING A PICTURE.
How some Psoris sit BEFORE Photo
kfaph~r's Camera

How Some Peoris SIT BEFORE a Photo
kfaph~r's Camera
"Queer sitters? Hundreds of them"
said o. B. de Morar, the photographer,
yesterday, repeating question and an
swering it. ''My greatest trouble with
sitters is that they viii almost invari-
ably SIT as Il they had swallowed
a ramrod. A man will come in.
sit down as stiff as poker, and say; i
want my picture taken this way l take
it that way, and as a matter of course he
is dissatisfied. Had he said to me take
it the way you think best, he would have
been sure of a good picture. Very few
people know how to assume proper
expression--and really they have no
business to assume any expression but
a natural one. like to see business
men come In, for they give me very lit
tie trouble, having no desire to look bet
ter than they are.
Ii is very funny to see some people
trying to look pleasant, One day
philanthropist, whose countenance is as
mild as womans and beams with gen.
tleness, wanted to be photographed. His
face had a strained look as he sat In the
chair, and told him 10 assume more
cheerful expression. the poor man
screwed up his face in such a manner
that he looked like a red-hauded muir
derer. | worked with him for half an
hour. aud during that time be, managed
to make himself look ridicnious in a
hundred different ways. One moment
he looked like an imbecile, the next like
a stage villain. finally got negative,
but nobody would have taken it for the
picture of philanthropist. Now, II he
had only looked neutral there would
have beer no trouble at all.
II don't want to be thought ungal-
liant, but | am forced to acknowledge
that ladies are far more troublesome
than men. Nearly sll Of them want to look
sweet and smiling. and in their efforts
to do so some OF them. shipper in way
that is almost enough to break the
That's woman's weakness An old
lady about sixty called on HE one day,
and, selecting the photograph Of a young
and voliptuous actress said she wanted
her picture taken like That. Tie actress
in the. pietcrU mad on a low-neck-
ed dress, and looked charm
,,a ~ you wah1 !. eAao.iy
,lke mat askeu. es: sir' rephea tne
iauy WIN a ae.er,hipa.ion. Pnot ts
grapneo her anu eAhlpiteu PROOF,
ma. MOI the klhu oi picture
MANI she olieo, ., ~ noesh ioos !, VI.
IKE tne; ,one l sn"TSu you 'put,
liihu,'"s ioAPosluia'ea' ! can 10. iiiake
iaoy Vi your age look IKE young
woman OF twenty-five. MY age, she
scieaileui hy aye ano hounceo OUT
oonlms Nun inaigha''on; % "a.
nc 1t i,.oiqs paYe guy nea. l,.'le
eoasy now uias po,heis US a eoou ueai.
pay, io1 llls.ahce' .las MIS- -; wants 70
oe photographed, vi TWO oi her IaVor-
aoie dresses sne does no. know when
wouiu iook pes. III the bics9res floW
ooes one 0soivoiie ing oi.'cu'.y fe,y
nicely. she mas hee picture taken 10 10
onu ~ W oaes .s one subsequently,
calls 20 LOOK AZ tne proof ana aiter
c Gu gia',ce says IL ooes no. sun ne,'
vi course she must gu agaih. ms
u, LINE sue IL a'ureo IN the oeher oress.
men she selects whenever picture suits
lvr' anu frequently taxes t'ie iirst' aeer
an. Inc photographer VINO can get
ahead OF a woman deserves a monu-
heht,
An tne iadles are queer set, asa
RUE iady does not BRING her tr,end9
WIN ner "hen sne comes TO be photo
graPheo. but when she calls TO exam