Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-01-15

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make Q fool Of him.
| Public interest on the subject became
20 great that two apple-paring and one
| quilting bee were started In great haste
20 that there might be some good. big
talkA
In the meantime Miss Trait. who
was no fool, becameimmensely weary OF
her enforced stay in q village where
| she knew NO one and found nothing to
do Ono day, while she was making
| some small purchases ut the store. Chip
| Tyler dropped In for a moment, with
his camera, and Frank asked him how
business. The young woman. after lis
| tcning a moment. asked abruptly:
Are you an amateur photographer:
I'm the only photographer Of any
| kind in this whole country, ma'am. y
replied Chip with a pardonable pride.
I've always wanted to learn some
| thing about it." said Miss Trait. II
wonder II could employ you to teach
me?''
I'm ready for anything, ma'am, that
means business" said Chip.
The lady made some inquiries of
| Frank wilsey, who said that Chip was
a clever little fellow, and his studio
| was in his mothers own house. and
that the boy had made some pictures
| which were not bad. so within an hour
Chip was engaged, at the princely sal
ary Of a dollar an hour, to teach Miss
Trait all he knew about photography.
He began by taking picture of Miss
Trait herself. telling her the meaning
OF each detail of the operation, and
after the sitting he had her take a pic
ture of her instructor. Then teacher
and pupil went into the room, with
windows screened with yellow paper,
which Frank had called his studio. and
Chip taught Miss Trait to develop"
a plate.
Chip began with his own portrait,
which the pupil herself had taken, and
II came out" so Well that the pupil
was delighted and Insisted upon hold
ing rhe plate In the sunlight outside.
So that ii might dry quickly and be
printed"
Meanwhile Chip developed the plate
OF Miss Trait herself, in taking which
he had teen extremely careful, for II
would be q great feather In his cap to
display the portrait Of so notable per-
son as Specimen"
But the peculiar way in which that
picture slowly came out in the devel-
Oping bath" made him wonder greatly.
No other person had been near by when
the picture was taken, but the shadows
seemed those OF q man instead of a
woman. AS the details appeared it be-
came evident that he had used, by mis-
take, the plateholder containing plate
for which Frank Wilsey had set"
Well. never mind; he would finish 1t,
and then pose Miss Trait again, on the
plea that the plate was bad. But how
oddly Franks vest showed on the plate!
Chip could not understand 1t.
Chip finally washed and fixed" the
plate, set it aside to dry and posed Miss
Trait once more. The lady wished to
develop ii herself, of which Chip was
very glad, for he wanted to print that
picture of Frank, and find out what
was the matter with it. He soon found
out for a print, taken quickly in the
sunlight, showed that the matter with
Franks vest was that 1t was entirely
covered by a face ''as pretty as pic
ture" of Miss Trait! He had acciden-
tally taken her picture on plate which
had already been used once, although
not developed, and the Offset was
print which-well, it looked as If Miss
Trait had given her confidence and her
her heart to Frank Wilsey and was
resting her head on his breast
r.ffs H.
full. that is, it might be, If his new pupil
CHANGED TO see it-so he made haste to
hide the print. and also to put the print
ing frame and plate out of sight. But
isn't 1t astonishing how things will per-
sist In working just as they shouldn't,
in spite Of all you may do to prevent?
Miss Trait developed and dried her
plate, and looked at 1t sidew!se, as
Chip had taught her to do. and che
greatly liked the expression. and was
.-irI to toto ---'r- rrorr' tho r,'".0 ~
once. Cnlp rrleo to empty the printing
fpame-his only one-without being
seen, but Miss Traits eyes had not been
trained In big city for nothing. 1t was
quite plain to her that her youthful
teacher was trying to hide the plate
which he took from the frame, SO she
said:
LET me see that plate. please"
Its spoiled one." said Chip. throw.
ing the plate upon the floor. Up to
that time he never had dropped plate.
no matter how lightly, without hearing
the sound of breaking glass. but the
dreadful plate of Frank Wilsey and Miss
Trait fell as solidly as II 1t had been q
stove lid.
Chip stopped to get 1t, but Miss Trai>
was too quick for him; she got the plate
and took 1t to the light. saying:
What is itT'
Its an awful blunder-thats what
It Is" replied Chip. in desperation. Il
stupidity used a plate on which another
veloped."
How funnyw said Miss Trait. Then
the lady insisted upon making print
from it, and Chip thought seriously Of
running away and never coming back
to town again-not, at least, until the
Traits had departed. He got ready to
run, and then from a corner Of the
house observed his pupil closely.
Miss Trait exposed the picture to the
light Two minutes later he saw her
shade 1t with her shoulders and look at
1t curiously. Then he heard her laugh.
Oh, that laugh! 1t seemed to Chip that
her laugh gave him a new lease Of life,
for 1t was a merry laugh, and one Of
the long kind that seemed as if 1t didn't
know how to stop. Chip thought it
safe to go back to his room. Miss Trait
Joined him within a few minutes, and
said, in a ter-of-fact way:
"Now 1 know how spirit photographs
may be taken. I'll have a lot of fun
with them when go back home
Chip was so grateful that he felt like
falling at Miss Traits feet, but he
didn't do 1t; neither did he ever see that
plate again, and he could not say that