Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28

to be doing a thriving business, and people
seem to like illustrated songs, so 1t nat
urally follows that more care Is being
taken 70 secure artistic pictures, with good
scenic effects and somewhere near good
looking models.
III is why you, Mr.. Home Owner, and
you, Mr.. Shopkeeper, are likely to find
strangers encamped on your doorstep, for
the picture man rgues that he is taking
nothing from you when he takes the pic
ture Of your belongings.
Let us take a trip with him long enough
to illustrate one song. That means that
twelve pictures are needed-+-four for each
Of the two verses, and four for the chorus.
But some OF these pictures may not be
good, so 1t is safer to take some twenty
from which the twelve may be chosen.
First the picture man read over the song,
considering it carefully. II one wonders
why the picture man Is inclined to be
cynical, let him carefully consider the
lines of a few popular songs.
One thing in common they all must have
that is, II they have any chance at all
10 become popular. There must be plenty
Of love-therefore, a pair Of lovers. So IT
will be well to engage permanently the
services of two good '%spooning'' models.
Next where is it2 Perhaps a country
scene is required, so with the two models
and the picture man, loaded down with his
heavy plates and large camera, we hike"
for the railway station and take a train
out Of the city-say north. to the region
of exclusive summer homes.
Pleasure without Worry.
The picture man believes II is better to
appreciate the things you do not have than
to have things you do not appreciate. Many
OF the wealthy people do not appreciate
the luxuries which surround them. But the
picture man does. He is in a position actu-
ally to enjoy those Injuries. He designs to
use them without paying for any of them.
II is something like the automobne-aw-
fully nice, if the other fellow owns II. SO
the millionaire has the worry added to the
pleasure, while the picture man has the
pleasure with mons of the worry.
The picture man Is a grouch-always.
Jimmy, the young man Who looks like an
ad for some smart tailor, nonchalant, as
surfing the young woman that he is doing
his merely as a pastime, while both of
them are planning how to spend the dollar
per hour they are engaged In earning,
Arrived at a suitable spot, the picture
man gets his camera ready, then takes out
the lines OF the song, which are carefully
written on a scrap OF paper. Perhaps the
lines df the song has any chance at alD
read something like this:
A pair Of lovers s~trolling
One moonlit eve alone.
He said, My dear, i love you,
She answered with a moan
Il cannot love you, Harry.
The reason gives me pain"
But Harry took her 10 his heart
And murmured this refrain:
CHORUS.
Darling. I can't live without you.
What is life without you, dear2
Darling, skies look sad and lonely.
When i know you are not near
Darling, / can't live without you,
Won't you to ms your love give,
Let me hear you say, i love you"-
Without you, dear, / cannot live"
Let no cynic scott al the above lines.
Publishers Incomes bear out the statement
that with a little music or other loud noise,
a singer. and the man behind the picture
machine, that song mas every chance OF
getting "a bis arc
SO. with this song. Mi. Picture Man
goes 10 work 10 secure one picture to every
two lines.
"a pair Of lovers s~trolllng one moonlit
eve alone is the event now TO be pic
tured.
Art as a. shines.
The two lovers are requested TO take
their stand in the large flower bed OF Mr..
Millionaire, who Is not al home and whose
gardner is smoking one OF Mr.. Picture
Mans cigars.
Picture No. 2 will show the same couple
seated on Mr.. Mnionaire's ~boathouse steps,
or Just getting into his launch. or occupy
ing one Of his porch chairs, and by this
time Mr.. Picture Man is probably tearing