The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1904-10-20
WANT PHOTOS TAKEN
xMM1oRANTs Rave THEM SOON
AFTER LANDING HERE.
Are Eager to Let Their People in the
Old Country See How They
Look In the United
States.

One Of the first things that new
comer from Europe wants to do after
he gets settled In America IN to have his
picture taken. He ID anxious for the
folks at home to see bow he looks in
min new environment. As q rule, says
the New York Herald, he does not show
up very we'll after his voyage and the
tussle with the immigration bureau, but
the chances are that he looks rather bet
Ter than before he left home; 10 he
faces the camera with an air OF con-
iidence and grim determination.
The shop in which most OF these ex-
patriates undergo the Photographic or
deal Ia al a convenient distance from
Battery landing. The photographer is
a man OF polygiot tongue; hence he has
no dlficulty in giving instructions to
the raw recruits that constitute the
larger part Of bis patronage. Incident
ally. he has an opportunity to study ra-
cial characteristics that come to light
when the subject Is placed under IRE
OF the camera for the first time.
OF all the new arrivals, he has most
trouble with the Italian man OF fam
fly. That Is because neither the man
nor his wife nor his children nor any
person belonging to him will sit still
for half a second at a time. And, Of
course, the whole pack OF relatives has
TO be photographed in bunch. No Ital-
ian who intends to send his picture
home will consent 10 the exclusion OF
one Of his kinsfolk. The whole brood.
from grandmother down to the guEgling
infant. are lined up before the camera,
and when all begin TO giggle az once
and to squeal the Italian equivalent for
''oh, my" there is no question but that
the photographer Is going 10 have
pretty bad time.
The unacclimated Russian also
causes worriment That is because he
insists upon striking such preposter-
ous attitudes. AS a rule the man from
the ears domInions does not care a
farthing whether his women folks APP
pear In the picture or not. In fact, II II
comes down to positive preference he
would rather they would stay at home
OF. falling that domestic virtue, that
they would be content TO stand on IN
the corner Of the room and admire him
That gives him more room to practice
his fantastic posing.
Swedish emigrants who visit the in
ternational photographer have two
peculiarities that rile the artists soul
They wear a grin that stretches from
ear 70 ear and they bill and COO inces-
sanity In Scandinavian circles at home
and abroad every Jack has bis jill from
whom he stoutly refuses TO be divorced,
even In such crucial instances as a
fashlight explosion: hence the expres-
aIon Of idiotic happiness that stirs the
unsentlmentai soul Of the photographer
to desperate words and sometimes %
desperate deeds.
For the same reason the man with
the camera has a grndee against the
German contingent that visits his shop
They come in honeymoon couples ar
rayed. 80 far as the feminine half Of
the combination Is concerned in bridal
robes The Germans beat the world
anyway foT day-of- ths-weddlne pic-
tnres Tire photographer luows this
BY this time and that the old sunday
school hymn about who are these ar
rayed IN NhitesH has come 10 mean
nothing more OF ess 70 him than q
sturdy German ard his imported bride
Every little while au Irish elri wan
ders into the quarters Of the man with
the camera lie IS glad 10 see her. The
bloom Of her cheeks has not set beer
brushed on b. service in a New York
boardine house and her country fresh
ness delights his heart and his eyes.