The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-07-13

life. as a name connected SO intimately
with the Inman line would suggest. and has
penetrated groups that would make the for
tune of an artist if he could reproduce in
of our new land. I am told that the bat
terry under the old regime at Castle
Garden fascinated her, and that many of
her most unique pictures were obtained by
snap shots at the lately landed" issuing
single file upon the asphalt pavement, look
ing about them curiously and in wonder
ment, seated on the park benches looking
over the water or volubly greeting half
Americanized relatives.
The women who photograph do so with
all sorts of cameras, from that which is
sold for 25 cents and takes single picture
through pin hole instead of a lens, up to
outfits costing hundreds of dollars. There
is one young woman, and very graceful
and dainty one, whose father has many
shekels. and who, when she goes off on a
Photographic excursion. is followed by a
negro servant, who carries her tripod and
adjusts it with great flourish Of elbows and
conspicuousness of teeth when she has
chosen her point of view. When the ex-
posture has been made, with 81 tink We
got 'er dat time, suah. Missy" he packs up
the implements and Journeys on. 1t may
be we'll to add that the young woman in
spite of this pomp and circumstance of
photography, takes artisticnlly composed
pictures.
Most women bitten with the craze use the
handy little portable cameras, or detectives
but even without the service of colored
tripod variety. Last summer at one of the
Seidl society's meetings at Brighton Beach
there was pretty scene when Mrs. Eliza
beth Cadv Stanton consented to be placed in
position and was photographed by daugh-
ter of Olive Thorne Miller. Mrs. Miller's
Al Co.. 1,ne
| two daughters who are given to shutting
themselves up in dark rooms, but who can
| not, with all their snapshot work, get very
| close views of the sky feathered songsters
that are their mothers special study.
One of the most successful women photog-
| raphers left America for Russia month
ago. Mrs. Sergius Schewitsch who was the
beautiful Helene Won Racowitza and whose
career has been as romantic as that of any
living woman. had the face of one to whom
life had brought contentment. but showed
| a restless energy that did not disdain an
outlet in half a dozen fads, photography be
ing the most zealously followed. Hell
and l remember chatting with her one
bright morning in the park when white
capped nurse came along with Kate Green.
away urchin that could JUS. toddle. will
you lend me that baby?" The aristocratic
nurse looked up at the tall blue-eyed blonde
its picture" The stare began to spell itself
glare. "Come, little one,' and Mrs. Sche-
witsch conquered the baby's heart with a
smile and an outstretched hand. The nurse
had to follow willy-nilly, and for half an
hour the woman who had played so strange
a part in the history of German socialism
sat on a rock little way from the track Of
promenaders aud studied the baby as I
| tumbled on the grass, catching 1t in all Sort
| OF fat-armed and chubby kneed attitudes.
scientific photographer is the httl
| dark. skinned Nine. Alice LIE Plongeon, VIII
| spent SO many years in Yucatan with he
husband, studying the relics of lost races
| It is a common enough thing with anna
teurs to call themselves photographer
/ though they do nothing more than max
the exposure, sending plates or film rolls t
the studios of professionals to be devel
oped and printed from. But Nine. /.
Plongeon struggled with photography i
the depths of tropical wildernesses withou
ces making pictures with wet plates whicl
she herself prepared often under the mos
unfavorable and disheartening conditions
Her work is wonderfully strong and eve
in its excellence, and to sit in he
library-studio, den, by whatever nam
. YOU choose to call her workshop-is to loo
round on ruins of temples, monuments
! statues. inscriptions until you anticipat
the feelings of Macaulay's New Zealande
, who may one day stand on the wreck G
, London Bridge and speculate on the fol
!. gotten civilization of the British Isle.
Nine. LIE PlongeOn makes her own lanter
slides from her photographs, and when sh
lectures her husband manages the stereol
ticon, she performing the same service fG
him at his lectures.
:, Miss Katherine Wood Barnes goes int