San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-25

| NO man Is uSTO u Ills OMh NdlSls
| No woman is hero to her own maid.
| There are times when all of us desire
| to unbend, must do it or break. There
| are times when we must be alone. Not
| only want to be alone but must be.
| We do things in our mother hubbards
| and in our smoking jackets that are
| not the thing in our evening dresses
| and swallow tails. We do things in
| the privacy of our retiring rooms that
! are out of place in public. Few Of our
| public men who pose as dignitaries
would care to be caught playing horse
| with the kids in the nursery. Surprising
| a man like Grover Cleveland engaged
| as elephant to his babies, and some
| friend with kodak concealed about
his person should stumble over the
| threshold in a neighborly way what
would be the consequence? There may
| have been no intention of taking the
view, but what man or woman on
earth is capable of resisting an oppor-
| tunity of that kind. The consequence
who can determine?
This is but an illustration. Ridi-
cule is the strongest weapon in the
| whole human armory. That the kodak
is the inspiration of the devil of rid
icule is apparent to the meanest COM
prehension. There is no possible or
improbable condition, no matter how
unusual or ridiculous or undesired in
| to which man or woman may occa-
siOnally be found, that is not capable
of the most violent distortion at the
hands of the kodak fiend. While ap-
parently truthful in it's representations
IL 10 40 hn inc ant
of the most damnable falsehood, and
in the hands of its revelations COM
| mitted to the sensitive plate upon
while TIE faintest smile is impressed?
The days of the singing birds and
| the blooming flowers and the enjoy
ment of nature are upon us. Picnics
are ripe. The summer girl is here in
all her glory. Filtration is a part of
the amusements Of the season, inno-
cent flirtatiOns of course. There is an
end to all such if the kodak fiend is
around. This little demon of inquisi-
tiveness can furnish more testimony
for the court of i'scander beg" put
more arrows in the culver of dame ru-
NOR, dish up more hot tamales for the
tongue of defamation than any and all
other sources combined. The poet
says that spring time the thoughts of
the young man turn to love. Not if
the kodak fiend is around. Who would
tenderly press the hand of his lady
love for the representation of the kO-
dak? Who would pop the question if
he supposed the kodak imp was pop
ping his eyes out waiting for the SUI
preme moment in which to flash his
search light into the faces of He and
She.?"
Shakespeare says that a hell of
witchcraft lies in the small orb of one
particular tear. In the two inches
square of on small kodak plate there
is more DEVILS craft than in a whole
fountain of waters of feeling that brim
over the lashes. The only safety on
picnic excursions, in the back parlor
fiirtations, in quiet strOlls by the sum-
mer sea, in mountain rambles, through
the leafy aisles of the forest, in an
open boat on the open sea stsoof
open boat on the shimmering waves,
anywhere, everywhere, the only safe
ty is in either being alone, or in being
dead sure that the kodak boy is off on
some other lay. 1t is only few Sun
days since the Light preacher admon-
ished the boys and girls of this CORA
gregation concerning their steady
company. Above all things be sure
you have no kodak in your company.
All! Perhaps that kodak may be a
minister of grace. The very fact that
there is somewhere, unknown to you,
perhaps at the time unsupported to
you, a kodak plate is ready to take
the impression of just what you in
your unguardedness are doing, perhaps
that fact may be after all your great
salvation. Perhaps it is on this ac-
count that by some arrangement of
means to end the kodak has come into
use in this generation to preach the
| gospel of being always ready to stand
| on dress parade. Perhaps it would be
altogether in vain that the kodak fiend
| had of late been let loose to teach the
need Of such cirCumspeCtiOn in all the
| acts of life that the reproduction Of
| them, even the most secret, could no
more than cause a little annoyance.
Criminal laws are only made for the
| disObedient. Police regulations are for
| the riOtous The kodak may be for
| those who, without fear of its glass be-
| fore them, would at times forget that
| there is nothing that is done in secret
| that is not sooner or later proclaimed
from the housetop. No affliction for
the present joyous but grievious, but
it at times yields peacable fruits to
those who are exercised thereby The
great truth may include the kodak as
one of the Affections. Wide is the
range of corrective agencies. 1t may
be that the kodak is included. At all
evnts, if it's unwelcome meddlesome-
ness shall teach a larger vision. a
clearer need of being ever watchful
over the conduct a wiser ordering of
our intercourse with others, a greater
Difference in our manners, a life that
no revealing of it will injure us or
others, it may not be in vain that the
devil invented it.
This may we learn from the kodak
fiend. This also. That we each carry