Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-05-27
ing. but stood in an attitude a la Lord

| ing, but stood in an attitude a la Lord
Dolphin, and looked as If he were about
to exclaim: oh, aht The baby stopped
crying at once, and put on a look Of
amazement which was halt, also, of fear,
| and with this expression I was COM
PEELED to be content. The grandmother
said it was just perfect picture, which
it was not, for the child's eyes looked as
if they were about to fly from their
sockets. But grandma said it was all
right. She had had her circus.''
''What kind of babies are the most
difficult to manager"
ooh the babies, which are not babies.
What mean BY this paradox is that we
have little trouble comparatively with
the very little babies themselves. 1t is
when the subject is just on the border
land between babyhood and childhood,
when they are old enough to be spoiled.
to be ill-natured and to dimly compre-
bend what is going on about them,
that the photographer misfortunes be-
gin. Some of them will cry and kick,
and do all sorts of ill-natured things
when they are put in the chair.
We not infrequently get our shins
skinned by these precocious youngsters.
but we must bear our pain with forti-
tude and smile in the midst of agony"
DO. you ever fail utterly?"
Every seldom. Sometimes sugar
plums succeed as last resort, but not
infrequently diplomacy is as successful
with the children as with their parents
Recently little girl, just able to walk,
but with a terribly obstinate tenn
per, was brought up, attended
by the customary retinue OF
relatives and acquaintance of the
family. When she was asked to take
the chair she planted herself firmly in
the middle of the floor and exclaimed
with a frown: '.Tot won't do" Iput
on my most insinuating smile and pro-
duced very pretty toy. The little spit
fire sucked her thumb and looked
askance, but would not bulge. A most
wonderfully colored stick of candy had
no effect. She was bound not to take a
seat in the chair.
cat last 1 said: well, Tot, won't
take your picture and l want you to go
right out of here, for I have another
little girl who wants her picture taken,
and you must GO Me won't CO. she
said. We'll, then,' said I, you must;
now don't go and get in that chair; you
must stay right here The child took
her thumb out of her mouth and began
to edge up toward the chair. Now, Tot
said /, you must not get in that chair;
it is for that other little girl All this
time l was getting the camera
ready, and had the little bulb in my
pocket, without attracting Tots at
tention. She was bound to get in the
chair now, and she did. I pretended
to be attempting to get her out of it,
but was all the time arranging her
dress, while my assistant was getting
the camera at a proper focus. Finally,
1 said Now, Tot, don't want you to
stay in that chair; but if you will stay
there, you must not look at my pretty
bird here This attracted her eyes to-
ward stuffed bluebird, which was
mounted on tall pole at the right of
the camera. Tot will look, said she,
and at once became interested. This
was my opportunity. I squeezed the
bulb, and before she knew it we had
first-class negative. All this must be
annoying, you say. Well, we charge
for it. That's why it costs a little more
to have baby's picture taken than it
does to get an adults photograph. N
Y. Mail and Erpress.