The times., 1898-05-15

and relatives of the warriors have also
gone and done 1t again.
Vows and tears and an exchange of
photographs play part at every leave
taking between the Army and Navy men
and their families, and a phOtosrap pher.
who was interviewed on this question,
readily admitted that every man who
poses in has studio wears a full-dress uni
form. Usually they order two sizes of
print-one giving the figure on a boudoir
or cabinet card and displaying the martial
figure at full length. These are for dis
semnation among families and friends.
But there is another size called for.
print not bigger than a dollar, showing
just head and bust and struck off for
framing IN lockets. bangles, etc. The
women all prefer TO have their Hkenesses
taken in the watch case size, too. and
while the men who come to pose are one
and all very jolly. cheerfully bellicose
crew. the feminine patrons are in a pc
culiarly moist and melancholy state.
"Still they come" sighed the photogra-
pher, "and you can invariably tell the
young married couples. or those just en-
gagged, by their penchant for small double
profile prints You know such print
shows the two heads close together. the
woman's 70 the outside and trine 10 the
rear Of the mans and where there is time
my patrons always insist on little tint
ing judiciOusly put into the face and uni
form. Among the women II IS a fancy
just now TO have these little pictures TAX
en- In the dresses their husbands or
these gowns II is next TO impossible TO
make a woman look her best.
Now let me show YOU some of the ways
| we are framing the mems pictures-in
! lockets chiefly and in the form of merged
| double hearts made of gun metal. These
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| timent Of the thing demands their being
! slung about the neck by fine gold chain,
! and some Of them are peculiarly beautiful
! and costly. One indulgent National
! Guardsman chose a gun metal heart. with
| Cupid in brilliauts on the outside Mas
! ter Cupid stood in the attitude of present
! arms. The majority usually order en-
| graved or outlined in jewels on the lock-
cts covers, special dates or French, Lat
! in or German notices, full of such senti-
| ment as Dieu vous garde,' Eide ct
! Amore,' etc, etc. Some of the pictures
| we make are not larger than Io-cent
piece, and these are put into tiny gold
hearts 10 hang from gold chain bangles
! Hair or four-Ieaf cIoyeTs occupy the
sides of these lockets opposite the pictures
they contain, though a good many women
prefer in place of lockets. to have their
husbands or lovers pictures fitted in lit
tie frames woven of gold military lace.
Z 10 put on their writing desks and dress
ing tables are little easel frames. having
the shape and decoration of an epauIette.
and now let me show you some of the
things women give their lovers, for es-
pecial wear in that inside vest pocket that
is supposed to extend just over the heart
Here are round bachelor pin cushions
with one side of silver engraved with a
date and motto; on the other side is
framed the fair lady's miniature proto-
graph. A wife puts into one of these
cushions pin for every year of her mar
ried life, and a popular locket for men is
woven in gold or silver wire that is very
elastic and that, when lying in the hand
most resembles a closely-curled tress of
feminine hair. BY taking up the Iocket
at one side the metal curl springs up and
shows a photographed face on a thin gold
disk"