Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-22

A PAIR OF
KODAKERS
By MADELINE LEWIS

Commodore Binbridge. retired on
half pay and the owner OF a villa on
| the Sound, had the govt. He also
had an enlarged liver. Further, the
| government had retired him s. min
utes before he reached the retiring
age, and he felt that he had been
| hustled Out OF the service to which he
/ had given lifetime. As II this were
| not enough, wire fence and windmill
men were constantly calling at the
lodge and disturbing him. and Kodak
enthusiasts and landscape painters
We're traspassing on his grounds.
The commodore swore and groWied
| and grumbled as an old sailor has g
.,ertect right TO do but the public did
not take warning. He hung out signs
of Beware Of the dog" and Tres
passers will be prosecuted" but no
one was frightened. He finally made
1t known by numerous signs that he
had set bear traps and spring guns IN
the bit OF woods back OF his villa. and
along the beach, and that anyone run
| ming atoul OF them muse take the con-
sequences.
The commodore did not know his
neighbor on the right nor did the one
on the left He didn't want To know
them. He wanted 10 be alone With
his aged wife and his govt and his
enlarged liver and pass his few re-
manning years In seeing the naval
service 90 to the dogs because he had
not been kept on. II he had known the
neighbor on the right he would nave
known that she was Widow Parker.
relict Of lawyer, and that she had
30-yearol daughter named Clara.
IL he had known The one on the left
lie would have known that he was a
Wall street broker and had son Two
years older than the others daughter.
The retired commodore might have
known. bat dida't. that Harry Bling
ham. son OF the broker. was home on
his last college vacation. He might
have also known. but didn't. that The
widows daughter, Clara, was home
lust then because the art schools had
closed for two months. If anyone had
told him these things he would have
cursed his govt and the teller, 100.
and wanted to know what such pler.
lie incidents had to do with the decay
az the American navy
What could not have been known
TO the commodore was the fact that
both the brokers' son and the widows
daughter were what is termed kodak
iiends. They stood ready 10 snap
shot anything from a mosquito to a
lop-sided barn. They photographed
calves lying down and bulls on the
rampage They would snapshot the
tender dandelion and the gnarled oak.
They shot the shimmering waters OF
the sound and the shady dell in the
woods. They pointed their deadly In
sruments at the clam on the shore
and the squirrel in the tree. They
were fiends without knowing each 9th
er, but The law OF attraction. aided
by commodore With the govt and a
torpid liver, were to bring them to.
gether.
At 10 o'clock OF certain morning,
one kodaker appeared on the beach
from the north and another from the
south. For some time each WAS ignor-
ant OF the others presence. The girl
found a stranded lobster. and photo
eraphed him from three different posi-
tons and iotted il down in her Mem
orandum book that the photos were to
be entitled THE I.obster's Lament"
The young man found a starfsh with
one arm gone and old age creeping
over him. and snapped him as Never
Again" Then the two met The
young man removed his cap and bow.
cd. but the girl started In naughty
manner. kodaking Is a profession,
and those who follow it are always
| jealous Of each other. Both were on
| the colonel's land. and both were tres.
passers. but they did not take that
into consideration. Each felt that the
field belonged to him. 1t was their
day OF taking marine views. and each
was determined 10 hold that beach
against The other.
"Sirl"
Young Mr.. Bingham was ready for
q suuint at stranded oat when the
word reached his ear. lie paused to
look up The girl had a determined
! look on her face. He STEPPED back
from his camera IN some confusion.
but when she went ahead and made
ready for a shot he called out Miss
in d protesting voice.
Sir. saw 1t first" she announced.
81 beg your pardon"
but did"
We can both get a picture OF 1t.
Can be of any assistance 10 you In
arranging
Miss Parker turned away and en-.
tered the woods--the commodore
l.