The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-30
HLAsa.LIaaT FACES.
Drop a-Nickle-i n-the Slot Photographs
Don't Fletter.
From The Chicdqo Inter Ocean.

From the CHICAGO Tnter- Ocean.
You can't expect much chiaroscure in a
scent portrait. aud there is not enough
Rembrandt light in one Of them to make an
owl snow-blind, but when you drop your
nickel in the slot and look pretty you
wonder WHY you didn't lie awake nights
andthink out such scheme about twenty
five years ago, when you were yearning to
become great and at1uent.
The drop-a- Observation-Disclosures get
your-picture-take machine In one of the
downtown hotels is about the size Of an
ordinary dry goods box. There is q blue
glass bulls eye in front the size Of a port
hole, a lens about an inca IN diameter, a
slot to drop the nickel in. ana q slot whence
the picture comes out. About two feet from
the machine is an iron stool, to the back of
which is attached he Id-rest. That is all
you can see Of the outfit Tbs Internal
workings of the machine are inscrutabIy
mysterious.
You sit down or a stool. reach out your
right nand and drop the nickel in the aper-
ture, draw your hand back right away,
fas.en your eyes on the lens, and wait for
the performance to begin, enjoying the
while that deadly feeling of guilt that
comes over all men who are having their
oh ysiognomies reproduced for the hilarity
of posterity.
In about four seconds after you have
dropped the nickel the flash light behind the
blue portfolio gets in its work, and throws a
weird "Black Crook, glare upon your face
at the same instant the metallic lens shutter
: is opened and closed with the lightning like
| enthusiasm af a phlegmatlc frog grabbing a
| fly; from the inside of the machine comes q
sound as OF Ii half dozen Jail wardens opsn-
| ing doors, or like tIn-sheet stage thunder
heard from a distance-andt the things done,
do you use collodiou on the plateln you
ask the young man who attends to the ma
| chine, while you wait for the picture to get
into the right pipe eand come out of5.the
slot. '1B9o 547 u
MARY a colIode,"is the reply THAT'S
| all taken care of inside-tin cut, plate
coated, focus made, shutter dropped, light
fused-the whole things done by the ma
chine.n Gear,
BY this time thelitsls fnch-square tiatype
| has popped out. The youth dries it over an
alcohol lamp, and hands it to you. e
The portrait ontrageS ell Of your finest
sensibilities. 1t looks like some Of the
pictures that appenrsia the New York pink
police papers of such persons as "tle we'll
known all-aroundhI crook and secoud- story
| boarding house sneak ~ OF "the notorious
| walnut shelter and -thimble rigger.n The
picture shows up all Of your long-buried
! QepIdVlJy, ana on your CUunLe0d1cd Is I'm
| planted the look Of d 4naa who is eaaplored
of vice out Of mere cussedness. yiAssW
| Your face looks asithongh it has been
| covered by a ,cheesecloth handkerchief,
making the effect tke one of Diss DeDar's
spook pictures. The total absence ~, shadinc
makes you look as fat as q small pool o.
muddy water. r Y,61r Bve5 have EatiEsrish
glare, with white spot ia the ,csHter o.
each. The extrenes1hltsDess Of your eyes a:
against the muddiness Of your ispst make
them look liketwe fried eggs in bucket o.
tar. Ii is not hard to aecount for sscared
look on your face, because you rsalA lnbel
the shock you received when the blJssaash
light began operations Contrary no you
| expectations, your ears don't show at all
but there is enough hose in thee piosure Il
more than make up for thelaclr OF ears.
| The beauty of one OF these pictures con-
sists in the fact that it looks like SOM
| other fellow and can never be used against
you for purposes OF Identification. 1o3z
The machine is making lots of money, anC
ii has disabused mare Chicago men Of belief
in their personal beauty than anything YET
| sprung upon the town.