The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-15
SOLDIER SOUVENIRS.

The photographers are inclined to
think that even war cloud has its sill
yer lining. Since the president called
the national guard and asked for vol
unteers, the camera artists have been
struggling with an overwhelming pat
Tonage. Every new made soldier must
have his picture taken, TO leave behind
as a souvenir with a sweetheart, wife
or sister. and not only has nearly all
the equipped fighting force of the coun-
try passed in review before the lenses,
but the feminine friends and relatives
OF the warriors have also gone and
done it 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 photog-
rapher, who was interviewed on this
question, readily admitted that every
man who poses in his studio wears a
full dress uniform. Usually they order
two sizes of print-one giving the fig
Ure on boudoir or cabinet card, and
displaying the martial figure at full
length. These are for dissemination
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
lCcketS, bangles, etc. The women all
prefer to have their ikenesses taken in
the watch case size, too, and while the
men who come to pose are one and all
a very jolly, cheertully Dellicose crew,
the feminine patrons are in a oecul-
iarly moist and melancholy state.
Still they come" sighed the pho
tcgrapher, and you can invariably tell
the young married couples, or those
just engaged, by their penchant for
small double profile prints. You know
such a print shows the two heads close
together the woman's to the outside,
and a trifie to the rear of the mans.
and where there is time my patrons al
ways insist on a little tinting judic-
iOuSly put into the face and uniform.
Among the women it is a fancy just
now TO have these little pictures taken
in the dresses their husbands or sweet
hearts most admire, and in some of
these gowns it 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 pic |
tures-in lockets chiefly, and in the |
form of merged double hearts made of |
gun metal. These lockets are not for
exterior wear: the sentiment of the |
thing demands their being slung about /
the neck by a fine gold chain, and some /
of them are peculiarly beautiful and |
costly. One indulgent national guards /
man chose a gun metal heart, with a /
cupid in brilliants on the outside. Mas !
ter Cupid stood in the attitude of pre-
sent arms The majority usually or /
der, engraved or outlined in jewels on |
the lockets covers, special dates or |
French, Latin or German notices, full |
of such sentiment as ''Dieu vous garde," |
Eide ct Amore," etc, etc. Some of !
the pictures we make are not larger |
than ten-cent piece, and these are put |
into tiny gold hearts, to hang from gold !
chain bangles.
Hair or four-leaf clovers occupy the |
sides of these lockets opposite the pic
lures they contain, though a good many |
women prefer, in place of iockets, to /
have their husband or lovers pictures |
fitted in little frames woven of gold |
military lace To put On their writing |
desks and dressing tables are little
easel frames, having the shape and |
decoration of an epaulette, and now let
me show you some OF the things women
give their lovers for especial wear in
that inside vest pocket that is supposed
to extend just over the heart.
Here are round bachelor pin cush-
ions, with one side of silver engraved
with date and motto; on the other
side IS framed the fair lady's NINA
ture photograph. a wife puts into one
of thc1e cushions pin for every year
of her married life, and popular lock-
ct Cor men is woven in gold OF silver
wire that is very elastic and that, when
lying IN the hand, most resembles a
closely CURED tress of feminine hair.
BY taking up the lockat at one side. the
metal cufl springs up, and shows a pho
tosraphed face on q thin gold disk"