The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-12-16

Picture Machine Always Alb
sent When Needed.
PROPER TIP A HARD PUZZLE
Absence bf Basis on Which to Gage
Fees in ireland Leads to Awkward
and Embarrassing Experienees-
Joke on John Kendrlck Bangs.
By CHARLES BATTELL LOOMS


BY CHARLES BATTELL LOOMS.
Dublin, Ireland.-The poor man
never knows the cares and re-
sponslblities that beset the man
Of wealth. and the man without
kodak does not know how keen
is the disappointment Of a picture
missed-be the cause what it may.
Heretofore I have Travelled care free
for two reasons. one was I never had
any money to speak Of and the other
was I never carried camera. /
looked at the superb view, or the pic
turesque street group, solely for its
passing interest, with never a thought
of locking it up in black box for the
future delectation Of my friends, and
to bore transient visitors who, as I
have noticed, always begin to look up
their time tables when the snapshot
album Is produced Of rainy Sunday
afternoon.
But this year some one with the
glib tongue Of a salesman persuaded
me Of the delights that were conse-
quent on the pressing Of button, and
/ purchased a camera Of the sort that
makes it's owner a marked man.
The first two or three days / was
as conscious as man who has just
shaved his mustache on dare, and
who expects his wife home from the
country any minute. fancied that
everyone knew / was a novice, al
though even l hadn't seen any OF my
pictures as yet.
/ snapped a number Of friends on
the steamer, and even had the audaci-
ty to make the captain look pleasant
but in his case 1t came natural, and
really, when it was printed, even
strangers could hear his hearty laugh
whenever they looked at the picture
50 true to life was IT.
O. course 1t was beginners luck,
but as went on swapping and getting
the films developed found that had
picked up fine lens, and the pictures
was taking were really worth while,
and then
Say, have you ever had hen fever? ?
Has your pulse ever quickened at
sight Of an cgs you could call your
own? Have you ever breathed hard,
when the old hen led forth IS fuzzy
chickens and you reflected that 1S
chickens would reach the egg-laylng
stage In seven months. and that II
each of them hatched out 13 you
would have 169 inside Of year-and
then have you gone out and bought 20
old hens. 50 as to have wholesale sue
cess-with deplorable results? II you
have done all these things you know
what a man does whose first snap
shots are successful. I laid In supplies
Of films till my pockets bulged and
my purse looked lean.
And the first time the sun shont
after landing at Derry, I went out tc
see the Giants Causeway-and lefi
my camera behind me.
Then experienced for the frs
time the sensation as OF personal loss
when the views that might have beer
mine were left where they grew.
When l show my views to visitors
they viii say. And didn't you 60 t.
The Giants Causeway?" and they vii
not accept my reason for the lack O
view. And l feel that the set Is in
complete.
as the time went on I noticed sew
oral things that are probably obvious
to every amateur. One was that OF
the days on which remembered 4
take my camera saw very common
place subjects and only snapped be
cause had the habit. Another VS.
that no matter how fine the weathe
was when / set out with my camera
II was sure to cloud up, Just as W
reached the castle or met the prett,
peasant girl. who was only too willlnl
to be taken.
One day I was walking from Cappc
luin TO Lismore. all unconscious O
what lay before me. and Just 70
Wantonness I took trees and picture
that might have been In any country
At last had but two left, and the
the meeting OF several droves Of cal
tie coming from Lismore told me tina
it must be fair day there Just the.
lovely. noble. glorious Lismore castl
burst on my view and I had to tax
it.
And then came on the fair al,
saw pictures at every turn.
Funny little donkeys with head
quite buried IN burlap bags, the Will
they sought tor oats. gay petticoate
and pretty faced women In group.
grizzled farmers that looked the par
waterbutts on wheels IN Rembrandt
esque passageways. leading to sunll
: courtyards beyond-regular prize vii
ners Il one had any sort Of luck.
And then a man with an ingratia
ing brogue asked me to take him an
his cart, and almost before I knew
/ had taken a SOW that weighed all {
! 500 pounds. and my snapshooting wa
over for the dag.
You may be sure that next day
. went well prepared, but fair day
+. only once a month, and fair days ar