The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-09-18
RolIaNcE o1s 4 TINTYPE.
BIZ cHARLorrE RoaERs

Two young ladies were seated on
the porch of the States at Sara
toga, Each had tipped her parasoI
over her nose at just the right an
gle to cast becoming shadow and
neither was at all interested in the
book she held before her.
Presently one of them, Miss Ben
ton, closed her book and yawned-
not man was in sight. Then she
got up and shook out all the little
frills and ribbons on her gown while
Miss Miller watched her with lazy
interest.
81 have been wishing for the last
ten minutes, she said, when the
ribbons were adjusted TO her liking,
'sthat there was some way of pre-
serving our good times. TO con-
dense and can them, for instance, as
we do peaches. Now, this summer
has been perfect; but it has gone
almost as completely as if it had
never BEEN"
How delightful she went on
dreamily, ait would be to reproduce
it some winter evening, as one does
the peaches"
GAS far as I can make ont said
Miss Miller, lyon want to eat your
cake and keep it too. y
az have nothing left of the sum-
mer but memories," continued Miss
Benton, patheticaIly, aand they are
SO unsatisfying.'
t'Do you mean to say" cried her
friend, leaning forward with tragic
ally mock earnestness, "that you
haven't even a tintype2 No girl
ever passes a summer without col
lecting at least one tintype."
"Come," she said, springing up
with sudden energy, as Miss Benton
shook her head, awe'll go at once
and have ours taken. I'll give you
mine and you shall give me yours.
1 couldn't bear to think, when I
part from you tomorrow, that it
had left you without the comfort of
a tintype."
So they sauntered slowly up the
street, stopping to look in the shop
windows, till they came to akind of
tent made OF boards and canvass.
On the outside of it hung frame
filled with tintypes of ali of the peo-
pie who, during the summer, had
sighed to see themselves as others
saw them. Miss Miller stopped to
inspect these with much interest.
"They look like they might be
good likenesses, she said, "only the
people seem to have been very bad
subjects. They are evidently ex-
cursionists from the backwoods.
When she entered, after an ex-
haustive survey of the productions
of art outside, she found that Judith
had already made arrangements
with the young woman in charge to
take their pictures.
The young woman produced a
young man with very thin legs and
a very large head. which made him
strongly resembles a carricature, who
in turn produced a camera and
seated them in front of it.
"Look pleasant" persuasively.-
"Don't move" threateningly.
Then he pulled off a little lid,
walked leisurely to the door, ran
back suddenly to clap the lid on and
say with a flourish:
"That'll do ladies; that's ALL"
They got up feeling dazed and
waited till the young man returned
from the next room. He came in
on u run, as if he had been a long
distance, and presented them with
four pieces of tin, from which they
gazed fixedly back at themselves.
Miss Benton looked rather pen
sive, as if she was still thinking of
the unpreserved summer, but Judith
was seated with her head to one
side and a defiant expression that,
for tintype, was wonderfully cap
tivatihg.
They expressed themselves as
well pleased; each bought one and
walked off, leaving the other two on
the counter.
When they reached the hotel
Miss Miller wrote on the back OF
hers: aTo Katherine Benton, from
Judith Miller, August, 1885, Miss
Benton wrote similar but reversed
inscription on hers; then they ex-
changed pictures and next day
parted with many promises to visit
each other during the winter.
The morning they left, the tin
type man coming into his shop
found their pictures on the counter