The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-07
a uorrid Suggestion.

Boston Correspondents Of ihs Glob, democrat
"llow would you like 10 see your photo.
graph on a cigarette PACKAGE"
"what horrid sugg ,stion! Only ac
tres,es. baseball players aud other dead.
ful people have such things taken"
"An5 yet your own portrait may appear
in such way 10y the thousands Of copies
tomouos or the Jay after"
"why. what can you mean7 How Is
spcb thing possiblei" demanded the
young Girl. 'aughingly.
VERY easily" replied her male cousin.
"No one Who employs the services OF the
most respectable photographer Is secure
against misfortune Of that sort. The like.
ness. " pleasing 70 The eye. is always apt
10 BE- secured by some enirrprising manu-
iactufcr Of cigarette art products, who en-
ploys agents 10 travel seglt and gather M
new MATERIAL
"Bnt no decent Photographic artist will
ssll his customers piciups-sefi.iuiy not
foe 40 disgusting purpose
That u true enough IN thecrv, Int not
in practice. The cigarette portrait maker
i acquainted with methods by which hc
Is able 60 secure, for his own use. the pho
tcsraph Of pretty nearly any one hc
chooses. In his pay are men who go about
in the giisc ot canyassnrs from ono photo.
graphic studio % another. Offering Ia buy
club aud other tickets aud sell them ou
commission. Now the selling Of tickets IN
this way has become well nigh universal
among sun picture makers, Who are not
accustomed Ia refuse the giit OF samples 10
anybody who will agree 10 drum up Gus.
tom ior them. This rule applies even to
concerns OF the first class. Ia good faith
/ the pretended canvasscr " supplied with n
number Of the prciiiest cabinets. etc, IN
stock, which are subsequently, TUNED
| over 10 his employer Tor considcfa.
ton. Very likely two or three
particularly charming ones are found
IN the lot. aud ihoss arr npro.
duced without scruplc. 10 servo ms an al.
yeni-cment Tor the Dudes Delight or
Crooked Cut" brands oi opium.loadcd
paper II the pirate, ATE no, succcssiul In
obtaining likenesscs they want by such
methods, they do no, hesitate 10 secure
them by bribing tho employees in the
studios. Not long ago the photographs Of
an eutirc young ladies' school near Boston
were gotten hold VI IN this manner ADD
published. Fifty cents or 81 apiece Tor
the copie. ~ exceptionally seductive mega.
tivcs will furnish a big temptation 10 y
sub .assistant operator on dry plates. Thus
no one who can take pretty picture !,
safe against the danger Of being mounted,
in counterfeit prcscntment, ON cigarette
packages, In company With Nile. Leila, Ol
The B0ullcs Parisionncs. Mike Kelly, ri
the Boston Baseball club. tho queen ol
the New York demi-monde and other like
celebrities"
THAT u all quito true" reluctantly al
nit,cd Bo-ton's crack fashionable pho,og
raphcr yesterday, 90 whom the aboy,
remarks were quoted. I'VE have smal
means Of defense against these unprinci
Piled people. who will stop At nothing ~
their efforts 10 secure what they want
The portraits al private individuals are
~ rule, too commonplace for their uses
but when they find one that Is exception
ally pretty or attractive they are Away
eager b. get u. No young woman who
. has n pleasing picture taken In any photo
, graphic studio Ia the United States can bi
certain tina, sho will not subsequently ap
pear a. cigarette advertisement, though
, the chances Ia an individual case Of sucl
I an accident arc necessarily small II tia
, likeness IL exposed In tho window Or sect
! in any other way by the cigarette agents
, they will surely try 30 obtain it--h
; takes their cyc-by bribery or otherwise
such caSs have given risa lately d
suits against the producers IN sewers
instances, but II IN slmost impossible u
get any legal satisfaction on, Of them. Ur
der Circumstances, II n advisable tbs
younr women Who Mt for their piclnr,
A should avoid theatrical attitudes aud Low
ncckcd drcsses, which may render the
counterfeit prcsentmens moro anilabl
/ FROM the cigarette hond's point Of view
! Sooner OF later hope 10 SEQ Law pssso