The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-09-19
GET REAL PICTURES

GET REAL PICTURES
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No Make-Believe Poses Allowed
Model Has Decidedly Strenuous
Time While the Work is in Progress.
"A pretty girl stood beside kitchen
table in a room with 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 theatre
"Ready?" she asked.
From 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 dressing room
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. "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
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.
y 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 muf1ed voice, and when he de-
tached himself after the picture had
been taken from the. entwining
maid the prints Of her f1our-covered
hands and arms stood out with amaz-
ing distinctness 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. 'Ready2'
| 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 genuine blow-a blow
| that hurt "Ouch" the man said, and
he looked at the woman v1ndictiveIy.
She now took up a. bucket of water
! that stood at hand.
| "Ready?' she asked.
>'A1l 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
grunted at the shock Another pic
| ture.
Finally the woman took the bag of
-four that stood on the table and threw
this on the man. It made him whittier
| than a 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
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 -four
and water form a crust On YOU"
The photographer then handed to
each OF these three persons green
back. and the episode was ended.
What meaning" a farmer from the
interior would have asked, t'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 atrocious
suffering?"
The photographer would have an
swered: ;
why, you see, we are illustrating a
that makes love to amald servant and
gets caught by his wife. She beats
him. These pictures have taken H.
lustrate lines in the song. The pic
lures will be thrown on a screen in
a darkened theater, 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 illustrated with. an appro-
pirate, more. than: life-size, photo
graph" -Philadelphia Record.