The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-06-03
PICTURES
Enlarged Free of Charge Is
What the Man Told Me.
THE ART GALLERY
Is the Gentle Reminder That L Am
Ushered to Frequently.

There is no great occasion that
there does not some great man
arise to meet it. / read that senti-
ment some here, and 1 like the
sentence, SO / concluded to use IL
whether it was appropriate or not.
The occasion in this instance was
the enlarging of my photograph,
which have wanted done for quite
a while. A good many people are
asking for my pictures, and 1 like
to crafty them. Sometimes as
many as five or six ask me in a
day. They say they would like to
have my photograph to look at and
enjoy themselves, and would be
in small business to refuse. There
fore, l am getting my picture en-
larged.
a man came around one day last
week and asked if I would like to
have some of my photographs en-
larged free of charge. L said 1 did,
but said: "My friend, how canst
thou enlarge pictures without
money and without price ?" He
explained that 1t was because OF
my influence and prominence that
he wanted my picture to give him
a start. He said, judging from my
features, that mine would be a good
picture to enlarge. NV highly
colored nose, tinted with the blush
of sunset and forty-rod whiskey,
and my peachblow neck beard
seemed to fill the bill.
And also my alabastine forehead,
noble and massive, seemed to catch
his fancy. He would look at me
and then he would smile to bim.
self, sort of laugh into his sleeve.
He had two sleeves, but laughed
into one only.
When | discovered that my pict-
ure wouldn't cost anything, and
that he wasn't working me for a
sucker, 1 dug up all the old albums
on the premises to find my most
fetching, my most captivating like
ness. 1t was u beautiful photo
graph, in which L was attired in my
best suit of store clothes, right off
the top shelf. My pants were a
trifie too long, but L had turned
them up two or three feet from the
bottom, so they did not interfere
with my beauty in the least, and
folks knew it. I had a Prince AL
bert coat with sleeves so tight that
L had to call in some of the neigh
bors to help me get my arms into
them, and they also interfered
with my wearing my celluloid cuffs,
but didn't mind that. lam stand
ing in the picture in very digni-
fed position. with one hand in the
breast of my Prince Albert, and in
the other l holu book that I never
read, and wouldn't know what was
in it if l had. also have cigar
in my inside pocket, which I in
tended to smoke for the purpose Of
giving me rakish air, but forgot
it. My legs are crossed, and my
left foot rests on the toe of my No.
III Congress CATERS quite gaily.
The rubber in the Congress shoes
is badly stretched out of shape, but
the picture enlarger said 1t wouldn't
interfere in the least.
He took my photograph along
and said he would return it soon,
and he did. He enlarged the pic
ture. When / saw the work, sat
down and silently wept over the
wickedness of man in general and
lightning artists in particular. He
made my picture free of charge, as
he agreed, but when he charged
me $3.50 for miserable old wh0p-
per-jawed frame that wouldn't have
made good kindling wood, I got
angry and hauled off my coat pre-
paratory to licking him, when he
told me if didn't buy the frames,
six of them, he would distribute
them among my friends. 1 bought
them. | have thom yet. My wife
thinks great deal of those pict-
ures. She hung them in back
room upstairs, and every time l
object to her spending money for
anything, she takes me up to the
art gallery. If you could seq those
pictures, 1 wouldn't need to explain
why conceal my obj ections. /
never even criticize her for any
foolish bargains, any more, although
| did once quite freely.
My experience with the wicked,
unholy picture maker has made me
sad and 1 no longer enjoy myself
as once did, When / behold how
my beautiful young features have
been caricatured by lightning ar
tist, am unable to hold back the
tears, and people wonder why my
baautV il FADING