Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-16
POSING FOR SONG PICTURES.
Queer Business that Is Carried On
by Some PhotoGHa pliers.


by Some PhotoGRa pliers.
A pretty girl stood beside kitchen
table in a room with a ceiling Of glass.
Her sleeves were turned 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 cam
era answered Ready" She buried
her hands In a pan of dough that was
on the table before her and the man
photographed her in that attitude. Now
there came from a dressing room a
gentleman Of middle age in evening
clothes. He posed himself beside the
busy girl He sat on the table, bend
ing over her, very friendly. "ReadyF'
he said.
Gall ready" the photographer an
swered.
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 some
what muff1ed voice, and when he de-
tached himself after the picture he'd
been taken from the entwining maid
the prints of her fiour-covered hands
and arms stood cut 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 rolling pin.
Ready" she asked.
"Let her co." said the photographer.
The woman brought down the roll
Ing pin on the mans head and at the
same time picture Of the blow was
made. It 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.
"All ready" said the photographer.
She hurled the water over the man.
1t went in his mouth and up his nose.
grunted at the shock. Another picture.
It 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 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, sis strenuous posing
for fair. I've earned my money here,
all right, all right"
That's what you have" said the
photographer. 'Now, hurry into the
bathroom and battle before the flour
and water form a crust on you
The photographers then handed to
each of these three persons a green
back, and the episode was ended.
What meaning" farmer from the
interior would have asked, "does this
strange episode have? Why were
these strange pictures made? Why
did you put our middle-aged friend in
the full dress evening suit to such afro
cious suffering?"
The photographer would have an
swered:
"Why, you see, we are illustra ting a
comic song. 1t is song about a man
that makes love to a maid servant and
gets caught by his wife. She beats
him. These pictures have taken Illus
trate lines in the song. The pictures
will be thrown on screen in a dark
ened theater, and a man and woman
will stand alongside of the screen and
sing the song, the pictures changing
rs the song goes on, each line being
Illustrated with an appropriate. more
than life-size, photograph" -Philadel-
phia Record.