Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02
Mr.. JOBSON'S NEW CAMERA

| WI nat next! said Mrs. JobSon. Wv ny
| didn't you get a new red sled?''
There's too much of the new red sled
| about you. Mrs. Jobson." said Mr.. Jobson.
| good naturedly I've been wanting one of
these here contraptions ever since was a
two-year-old. and took this one today on
trial. Going to make little collection of
household views"
| Household views?" said Mrs. Jobson.
wonderingly You mean you're going to
photograph our parlor and bed room from
different view points, and send them to that
| magazine that publishes specimens of
palatial American interiors;
| "Thatll do you for sarcasm, Mrs. job
son. replied Mr.. Jobson, warnngly.
| Nom, I'm not going to take any palatial
interiors. I'm going to take an even dozen
views of the mistress Of this establish
| rent, under varying circumstances and
| views I'm going to have the pictures fin
! ished and strung in a row over the mantel-
piece in our bed room, tied together with
| bits of pink ribbon. They'll be both in
a whole lot Of things Mrs. Jobson. All,
| Just stand where you are a minute"
Mr.. Jobson pointed the camera at her.
there little click, and Mr.. Jobson' 8
face beamed with satisfaction.
That'll be No. L. he said. "I'll label
that View OF Mrs. Jobson with her hair
done up in kids when her husband comes
home after a days toll, when she ought TO
be fixed up to look like something to re-
ceive him. That'n do first-rate to leal off
with. I've got a dozen films in this con-
devote EN- all to you. When 1 get the
whole dozen views of you. I'm going to rig
up the bath room a dark room. develop
the plates and make the pictures. 1 feel
assured that they'll help you great DEAL
Mrs. Jobson.''
They are all to be taken under the most
unfavorable circumstances, 1 presume,
said Mrs. Jobson.
My dear" said Mr. Jobson. I'm going
to give you every chance. But the COM
pleted dozen pictures are going to sort o
Illustrate things around this household. To-
morrow morning, for example. when 1
out of the house and started for the Of
flee so that you can go down town and
buy $1745 worth of genuine Valenciennes
lace at 3 cents yard at bargain coun-
ter. to be put away in one of your attic
trunks and there slowed against a rainy
day-why, I'll just take little snapshot
of you and label It Mrs. Jobson in the
act Of starting out to get her moneys
worth That'll make a tip-top No. . won't
it?''
Yes. that ought to be real NICE" said
Mrs. Jobson And the others?"
"Oh, I've got plenty of ideas as to the
Others said Mr. Jobson. For example
you've been contending for the past seven
teen years that your husband Is the only
living human. or almost human. being who
sleeps with his mouth open occasionally.
I'm going to get a fashlight view of you
when you're taking nap with your mouth
wide open. and thatll make a characters
tic and unique No. g. Don't you think so?
at will be lovely" said Mrs. Jobson
Tell me some more of your IDEAS.
Well went on Mr.. JobsOn. I'm going
to get you some time in the act of taking
what you and the rest of your call "A
good cry one of those functions that you
M mt n after vOII' done all
the chores. and ascend to your room to
have out in good shape and on schedule
time. l wish this here contraption would
take colors, sos it could show up how red
and puffy your eyes get when you are
having "a good cry, but it'll do all right.
anyhow. I'm going to label that one Mrs.
Jobson in the act of executing her regular
schedule cry: 800 in gold offered to any
body including Mrs. Jobson. who can find
out what she's crying about"
THAT will be a nice one. too, said Mrs
Jobson. please go on
Then I'm going to get a view of you In
| that rainy day skirt of yours said Mr..
Jobson. Il am convinced that when you see
yourself as others see you In your rainy
day skirt you'll not only abandon the rainy
day skirt at once and forever but you IL pat
your dlsinterested husband on the back and
| call him phianthropist. with capital P.
for showing you what sight and a holy
show you made of yourself by disregardng
his entreaties. I'll label No ) Mrs. Jobson
at her very worst
Delightful" said Mrs. Jobson. More,
please
asking your long-suffering husband If
Aguinaldo the Boer isn't one of the perse-
cuted Ar,nenians living in the Philippine
Islands. thus portraying the care with
which you keep up with current events
beautiful said Mrs. Jobson. THAT
| makes six. Tell me all the rest"
Lets see" said Mr.: Jobson; mo.
won't have you in it. but 1t will concern
you. I'll take view of that 800 piano that
| l shaved and toiled to buy for you. after
you'd begged for it. and told me that you
| could just die a-playing the piano and III
| label that Musical instrument which Mrs.
| Jobson hasn't touched for two years. four
| months and eighteen days
''That'll be a highly truthful one said
| Mrs. Jobson. Now you have five left
mo. will be a portrait Of you wearing
| that $24 hat that you bought the other day
the hat plastered over with violets and
| hydrangeas and geraniums and peoples and
roses and honeysuckle and hyacinths and
| lilies of the valley and sunfiowers and cauli-
flowers and chrysanthemums and sweet
pease and pansies and liacs and other flora
| and fauna and things-the hat that looks
| like it ought to decorate the head of little
eight-year-od child Of the rich on her way
to Sunday school in landau automobile
with two French nurses along with her
I'm going to label No. Mrs Jobson in the
act of trying to convince herself and her
| husband and the rest that she is real
young.
CieVer Niea, tnat, commenced MIS-. JoD-
son. Now No 9?''
mo. o." said Mr.. Jobson. scratching his
chin, refiectvey. will portray you in the
act of reading with wide-eyed avidity that
noble chef d'oeuvre. 'Artless Artie. or From
Chambermaid to Duchess Thatll be la
beled Mrs. Jobson engaged in literary pur-
SUITS
mo. will be lovely. too" said Mrs. job
son. mo. 10, now. please?"
well. 1 might snap you from the parlor
window, as you lean over the front gate
and converse in low, earnest, passionate
tones with that hatchet-faced woman next
door who locks her husband up in the cell
lar when he asks her permission to go
down to the corner to buy a newspaper and
a cigar. and 1 could call that one Mrs. job
son in the act of knocking her kind and
loving husband
Another original idea" said Mrs. job
son. Now for No III
mo. II could be view of you in the act
of receiving fifteen or twenty peddlers and
fakirs down in the basement hall and buy
ing out everything they had in their packs,
and labeled Mrs. Jobson as an almoner
and a good thing"
"And last but not least" said Mrs.
Jobson. inquirngly.
81 haven't got No. IL charted out yet"
said Mr.. Jobson. "but it'll be a fitting eli
max to the panorama"
Mrs. Jobson had thought that he was