Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-21
POSING FOR SONG PICTURES.
Queer Business That is Carried on by
Some Photographers.

queer BUSINESS That is Carried on by
Some Photographers.
From the Philadelphia Record
A pretty girl stood beside a kitchen table
In room with 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 the
alter.
Ready she asked.
From corner a man behind camera
answered Ready" She buried her hands
in pan Of dough that was on the table be-
fore her. and the man photographed her in
that attitude. Now there came from
dressing room a 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 answered
A picture was made of the pretty maid
and the friendly. middle-aged gentleman in
evening dress who sat beside her while she
worked
Then the gentleman, taking hold of the
maids chin gently. turned her pretty 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 a somewhat muffied voice. and
when he detached himself after the picture
nad been taken from the entwining maid
the prints OF her four-coyered hands and
arms stood out with amazing distinctness
on the back of his black coat
A woman, middle-aged and by no means
falr entered. The man and the maid stood
!ar 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 CO.. said the photographer
The woman brought down the rolling min
on the mans head. and at the same time
picture of the blow was made 1t was a
genuine blow-a blow that hurt. Ouch"
the man said. and he looked at the woman
vindictively. She 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. 1t
drenched him thoroughly. He grunted 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 whittier than a tomb
stone 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 having
been taken, lis strenuous posing for
fair. I've earned my money here, all right.
all right"
That's what you have" said the photog
rapher. 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 in
terror would have asked. docs this strange
episode have? Why were these strange
pictures made? Why did you put our mid
dle-aged friend in the full-dress evening
suit to such atrocious sufferings?"
The photographer would have answered:
why, you see. We are illustrating
comic song. 1t is song about man that
makes love to a maid servant and gets
caught by his wife. She beats him. These
pictures 1 have taken illustrates lines IN
the song. The pictures will be thrown on
a screen in darkened theater, and a man
and a woman will stand alongside of the
screen and sing the song. the pictures
changing as the song goes on, each line
being illustrated with appropriate more
than life-size, photograph.