Omaha daily bee., 1898-05-15
SNAP SHESAT SOLDIER BOYS
The War Clouds Silver Lining for Camera
OF Artists.
LOVE AND unYalY HELPS BUSINESS
Part the Paotwxraph Plays In the
NRtionaI,a Seslly Around the
FlnnS~ssss elites -in the
slDcture Line.

The photographers are inclined to think
that even war cloud has Its silver lining.
Since the president called the National
Guard and asked for volunteers the camera
artists have been struggling with an over
whelming patronage. Every new made sol
dier must have his picture taken, to leave
behind a souvenir with sweetheart,
wife or sister, and not only has nearly all
the equipped fighting force Of the country
passed in review before the lenses, but the
feminine friends and relatives of the war
riors have also gone and done 1t again.
Vows and tears and an exchange Of photo
graphs play part at every leave-taking be-
tween the army and navy men and their
families, and photographer, who was in
terviewed 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
figure on a boudoir or cabinet card and dis
playing 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 dollar,
showing just head and bust and struck off
for framing In lockets, bangles, etc. The
women all prefer to have their likenesses
taken in the,watch case size, too, and while
the men who come to pose are one and all
Il Nciy Joily, CHetTlully DelIlCOSe crew, tne
feminine patrons are in peculiarly moist
and melancholy state.
Two of n Kind.
Still they come" sighed the photogra-
pher, "and you can invariably tell the young
married couples, or those just engaged, by
their penchant for small double profile
prints. You know such print shows the
two heads close together, the womans to
the outside and q trifie to the rear Of the
mans, and where there is time my patrons
always insist on Q little tinting tudiciously
put into the faeehand uniform. Among the
women 1t 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 1t is next to impos-
sible to make a woman look her best
Now let me show you some of the ways
we are framing s'the mems pictures-in
lockets chiefly and in the form of merged
double hearts made Of gun metal These
lockets are not fofi exterior wear; the senti-
ment of the thi tamands their being slung
about the necu udbtS Ia fine gold chain. and
some of them feef Peculiarly beautiful and
costly One 3iltnnt national guardsman
chose a gun tHakEheart, with cupid In
brilliants on fe1et utside. Master Cupid
stood in the att 9&n4 OF present arms The
majority usuaI IS der, engraved or OUT
lined in jewels a the lockets' covers, special
dates or Frenc din or German notices,
full Of such sen tineAt as "Dieu vous gaFde"
Eide ct Amo} - etc, etc. Some of the
pictures we ma 14 eSe not larger than TO-
cent piece and fbesH are put into tiny gold
hearts to hang krotA gold chain bangles.
FetFAtnk Noveitics:se..
Hair or four haf kioyers occupy me sides
rotX az no ,,ic fho,,
tcontain, though good many women prefer
I in place of lockets to have their husbands
| or lovers pictures fitted in little frames
! woven of gold military lace. To put on
ftheir 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 cushions
with one side of silver engraved with date
and motto; on the other side is framed the
fair lady's miniature photograph. A wife
puts into one of these cushions pin for
ever year of her married life and popular
lccket for men Is woven in gold or silver
wire that is very elastic and that, when
lying in the hand. most resembles closely
curled tress of feminine hair. BY taking up
| the locket at one side the metal curl springs
up and shows photographed face on thin
| uold disk "