The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-11-12
GOOD DISCIPLINE

BY GRACE MOON.

iamiiy needs spiritual stimulant dur
i-s the present Lenten season" said
the girl with the camera slung over
her shoulder. buy tank and a scale
and a few dozen different chemicals,
and book OF directions and leave him
TO his fate. The seeds of humility, pa
tience and long suffering will bear
fruit a thousand fold.
Don't laugh; it's truel If you know
anything about the capital sins you
know that pride is at the head OF the
( list. To cure it, let some one take a
good swift snapshot Of you when
you're not looking 1t can reveal and
correct more beauty defects than SO
visits to the shop where they make
you beautiful while you wait When
that same snapshot is three or four
years old and you gaze upon the hat
that was none too becoming in its best
days, you begin to realize that the lily
OF the field had some advantages over
Solomon.
AS for patience, amateur photog-
raphy is more instructive than Bruces
/ spider and more effective than Jobs
soliloquies. When you have measured
out 16 ounces of hypo in a half ounce
scale-which means that you have to
balance it 80 times. TO the rhythmic
chant of twenty grains one scruple.
/ three scruples one dram, eight drams
one ounce'-and then forget whether
I the last measure was the twenty-hrst
or twenty-second half ounce, and you
have TO spill it all out and begin oyel
] again, if you can do it with cheerful
heart your spiritual condition is en-.
couraging.
When YOU come home from vaca-
tion with several rolls of films and be-
gin developing the best and most cher.
ished roll and it comes out of the tank
distinct and clear and you drop it into
a bowl of innocent looking hot water
which should have been cold-a bowl
which a member of your family had
] placed carelessly at your side-and
1 you see your jolly groups OF bathers
and cancers run into a 'shapeless mass
/ of gelatin and you hold in your hand
a blank film roll, then if you can turn
| to the offender and say with serenity:
Its all right, really don't mind
then you have merited triple halo.
do you wish to understand your
neighbor? Try group picture. In
Z the first place, when it comes to posing
a group, have you ever observed the
I serene Indifference with which each
member regards the position and adj
vantages Of every other member? The
most humble and retiring individual
1 quietly and persistently slides into an
I advantageous position, regardless of
4 the same desire on the part of every
/ one else.
And when the same group has been
finished and you talk about light and
I shade, tone and contrast-you were
not in it, of course-and you try to get
anyone else to observe these points
and you say, Don't you think the
shadows are good?' your friend will
Invariably reply, didn't know | had
a double chin!' or I certainly can't
wear a soft collarip
Then you suddenly realize that
your modest self-effacing friend has
normal ego.
For social popularity the snapshot
is an open sesame. If with your bread
and butter letter you can inclose a few
snapshots Of the infant idol OF the
family, of your hosts new chicken
coop, or your hostess new porch set,
the invitation to come again will be
sincere and urgent.
When 1t comes to generosity this
gentle art of snapshotting has no
equal. Suppose in a rash moment you
have promised each of eight friends
full set Of II prints. After prelimi-
nary struggle with drains and scruples
you start in to print Your family ad-
monishes, urges and finally commands
you to be sensible and go to bed, but
you feel that you must persist in your
altruiric endeavors. 1t is midnight
before you get your 90 prints to wash
in a sowl of running water in the
kitchen sink.
when you return at the end of an
hour you find that several of the prints,
with the perversity of inanimate
things, have slipped over the drain
and a miniature Niagara is splashing
down upon the floor.
"The heat has been off two hours
and it's ten degrees below zero, and
the kitchen has west exposure, but
you open the door and sweep strenu-
ously and exhaustively. And you hear
the splash of the water out the porch, i
on the landing below, then on the walk |
in the yard, and you think of the pro-
file of drainage Of the great lakes, And |
you tread lightly and softly, partly be- [
cause you are reluctant to dislodge 1
the water soaked ceiling in the fat be-
low and partly because you are afraid
of waking your family and bringing
down on your unoffending head a
chorus Of / told you so's.'
after three hours of hard labor you
close the door just before the milk
man tears up the back stairs. And !
then, when you come to the breakfast
table the next morning, heavy lidded
and sore Of spirit, but discreetly si-
lent, another of your household comes