Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
SOLDIERS PICTURES.
There Is a Great Rush for Them
Just at Present.
Uncle Sans Defenders Have Their
Pictures Taken Before They
Depart for the Front
Some Souvenirs.

Since the president called for Volun-
teers the photographers have been
struggling with an overwhelming pat
ronage. Every new-made soldier must
have his picture taken to leave behind
as a souvenir with 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 had their pic
lures taken.
A photographer who was interviewed
admitted that every man who poses in
his studio wears full uniform. Usual
ly he orders two sizes ofprint--one CIV
ing the figure on boudoir or cabinet
card and displaying the martial figure
at full length. These are for dissent
nation among families and friends.
But there is another size called for, a
print not bigger than dollar, showing
just head and bust and struck off for
framing in lockets, bangles, etc. The
women all prefer to have their like
nesses taken in the watch case size, too,
and while the men who come to pose
are bellicose crew the feminine pa
irons are in peculiarly melancholy
state.
Still they come" sighed the photog-
rapher, land you can invariably tell
the young married couples, or those
just engaged, by their desire for small
double profile prints. You know such
a print shows the two heads together,
the woman's to the outside and trife
to the rear of the mans, and where
there is time my patrons always insist
on little tinting judiciously put into
the face and uniform. Among the wom-
en- it is fancy just now to have these
little pictures taken in the dresses their
husbands or sweethearts most admire,
and in some of these gowns it is next to
impossible to make 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 fine gold chain, and some
of them are peculiarly beautiful and
costly. One indulgent national guards
man chose a gun-metal heart with
Cupid in brilliants on the outside.
Master Cupid stood in the attitude of
present arms The majority usually
order. 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. Some of the pic
lures we make are not larger than a
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 good many
women prefer, in place of lockets, to
have their husbands or lovers pictures
fitted in little frames woven of gold mil
itary lace. To put on their writing
desks and dressing tables are little
easel frames, having the shape and dec
grafton Of an epaulet.
Here are round bachelor pincushions
with one side of silver engraved with
date and motto; on the other side is
framed the fair lady's miniature photo
graph. A wife puts into one of these
cushions q pin for every year of her
married life, and 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 TAX
ing up the locket at one side the metal
curl springs up and shows n photo
graphed face on thin gold disk."-N.
Y. SIM.