The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-04
POSING FOR SONG PICTURES
Queer Business That Is Carried on by
Some Photographers.

pretty girl stood beside a kitchen
table in a room with a ceiling of glass.
Her sleeves were tucked back over her
white arms, and she wore the short
skirt and the high heeled shoes of the
maid of the theater
''Ready?" she asked
From a corner a man behind a cam
era answered Ready" She buried her
hands in a pan of dough that was on
the table before her, and the man pho
| tographed her in that attitude. Now
there came from a dressing room
gentleman of middle age in evening
clothes. He posed himself beside the
busy girl. He sat on the table bending
over her, very friendly. Ready" he
said.
'All ready" the photographer an
swered.
A picture was made of the pretty
maid and the friendly. middle-aged
gentleman in evening dress who sat be-
side her while she worked.
Then the gentleman, taking hold of
the maids chin gently, turned her pref
ty face up to his. He looked down upon
her roguishly, tenderly. Ready he
asked. A third picture was made Now
the elderly man took the beautiful girl
in his arms He placed his lips on hers.
He said Ready" this time in some
what muffled voice. and when he de-
tached himself after the picture had
v
the prints of her flour-covered hands
and arms stood out with amazing dis
tinctness on the back of his black coat.
A woman. middle-aged and by no
means fair. entered. The man and the
maid stood far enough apart now, but
there on the back of his coat were
those two white arms and hands. The
woman took up a rolling pin. Ready"
she asked.
Let her 60" said the photographer.
no a rolling
pin on the mans head, and at the same
time a picture of the blow was made.
1t was a genuine blow-a blow that
hurt ouch" the man said, and he
now took up a bucket of water that
stood at hand.
Ready" she asked.
"AH ready" said the photographer.
She hurled the water over the man.
It went in his mouth and up his nose
It drenched him thoroughly He grunt-
ed at the shock. Another picture.
Finally the woman took the bag of
-four that stood on the table and threw
this on the man. 1t made him winter
/ than tombstone. The photographer,
the woman and the pretty girl laughed
heartily. but the elderly man smiled in
a rueful manner.
This he said, the last picture hav-
/ ing been taken. lis strenuous posing
4 for fair. I've earned my money mere,
all right. all right
THAT'S what you have" said the
photographer. Now. hurry into the
bath room and battle before the flour
and water form crust on you
The photographer then handed TO
each of these three persons a greenback
and the episode was ended.
What meaning" a farmer from the
interior would have asked, docs this
strang episode have? Why were these
strange pictures made? Why did you
put our niddle-aged friend in the full-
dress evening suit to such atrocious
sufferings?"
The photographer would have an
swered:
''Why. you see. we are illustrating a
comic song. It is a song about man
that makes love to maid servant ana
gets caught by his wife She beats him.
These pictures I have taken illustrate
lines in the song. The pictures will be
thrown on a screen in a darkened the
alter. and a man and woman will
stand alongside of the screen and sing
the song, the pictures changing as the
song goes on, each line being illus
trated with an appropriate, more than
life-size. photograph" - Philadelphia
| Record.