The age-herald., 1901-10-20
From the New York Sun.


 WHa aeas H'''i% sas p'.sss,s 'ss s'sssss's sssss
 Vf\/ camera oftener than any
 other ruler, alive or dead he has a good rival for photographic hon. ors in King Edward. In fact the entire royal family of Great Britain has been photographed so often, collectively, indi- viduaily and in sections, that 1t seems as if the royal motto must have been made over into:
 Count that day lost when no new pho- to is added to the worlds treasurers.''
 Everybody in England says ''photo' for photograph. In this county the word is rarely heard among educated people. But we have monopoly of bike" so the British may perhaps be allowed to pevel in photo without being criticised.
 The mania for being photographed is shared, but in a less degree, by almost every branch of European royalty, even down to the springs, of which there are not few There is to be found an occa- sional number of the hierarchy who re- fuses to be snapshotted and even balks at a regular photographer, but the truth is that these exceptions are women who are neither so young nor so beautiful as they once were.
 Did not Like 1t.
 The late Empress of Austria, whether because she wanted to be remembered as young and beautiful, or for more ob- scure reasons known only to herself was decidedly averse to being photographed or even to having her portrait painted. This prejudice was one she had display ed for a good many years before her death, and the result was that after her assassination the only picture obtainable { in many cases was one at least twenty ' five years old.
 She always carried with her a large black fan which she used as a serene to protect herself from the omnipresent ca- mera fiend. Five or six years ago in Venice the King and Queen of Italy vis- ;1ted the Empress of Austra on her yacht fin the lagoon. Of course everybody that fcould manage it was out there too. The spectators bobbed about in a great semi scircle of steel-prowed black gondolas watching the meeting. of their majesties at the head of the gdfigway.
 Even though the gondolas were fifty feet or more from the vessel and the re- iceiving party stood under the shadow of ,the awning where an Instantaneous ex- aposure would not have been successful, the Empress kept her black fan so con- utantly between herself and the array of boats that no one had more than a sxnere fieet1ng glimpse of her face. Yet she did 1t with so much grace and seem ing absence of intention that 1t appeared to have happened more by accident than by design.
 It is said that the only time she was caught of her guard was a short time before her death. camera fiend hid fbehind some bushes and got fairly good picture of the Empress walking with the f15mperor at Bad Nauheim. Her sister, fthe ex-Queen of Naples, also avoids the Photographer. It Is said that she has tnot had her picture taken for thirty syears.
 Not After Forty.
 The late Empress Augusta of Germany never consented to pose for any kind of picture after she was 40. She was beau- old and broken. twisted and crippled by rheumatism. She was over 80 when she died. For almost twenty years she had been a physical wreck.
 People at the baths which she frequent ed would see an old woman haggard for ] alLbef paint. wearing wig and huddled ts~ <ther in a wheeled chair. That was <he Empress Augusta At this period she i would occasionally give her picture to ! some one but the picture was forty years 1 younger than the EfnpresS. Tn IL she | appeared as a young woman, at the height of her beauty.
 The Duchess of Argyll is another wom- an who. having once been very pretty, prefers not to have her waning charms recorded by the camera
 But the other royalties do not seem to be afflicted with these qualms. They have only one horror and that is of being as 1hey say. snapshotted. They want to Nave chance to pose and look pleasant. zn Germany in spite of the Kaiser's love of being photographed. 1t is legal of- fence to point a camera at him or at any member of his family without having received permission. In England those in attendance on the sovereign are ex- pected to go even to the length of de- stroying. accidentally of course, a camera which is suspected of containing a snapshot of the King or the Queen.
 This mania for being photographed sometimes brings embarrassment in its train. Fiances fall out even when of royal blood. and as these same royal nances have way of being photograph = in the most sentimental and bourgeois