The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-22
MISS LULA TYUS, SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS WOMAN

the prettiest pictures of children because
 children are so absolutely natural. one thing that the photographer must learn
 from this is that he, himself, must become
 one of the children when he makes cnll-
 dren's photographs; he must do this III
 ordeY to make the child like him; he must laugh and jolly and humor and pet the 'kiddies' before he can ever make a satisfactory picture of child. Com mon sense and diplomacy must be em
 ployed in the making of children's pie lures else they never will be satisfactory
 either to the photographer or the client.
 "Of course, the photographer has ms
 troubles, Miss Tyus continued, put they
 are not great ones, which cannot be over come, for anybody can find trouble if they look for it in any business. our chlel trouble in making childrens photographs is not with the children themselves put
 with the parents. If only parents
 wouldn't dress their children up in Ilh-
 nicky-nessy clotheS-so unlike what they
 wear everyday-and if the parents wouiu only tell the photographer what they
 want what sort of picture and all that instead of telling the children-and Just
 let them alone while the photograph IS
 being made-we would get along so much
 better. Let us tell the child to smile
 when we want him to-or do something to make him smile-instead of the mother doing this; it would all be so much easler- Another thing is, when the mother is looking at her child she sees it's mouth nuckered up or sort of pouty and she be- gins to tell him to fix his mouth'-all this and many other things constitute the trouble we encounter in taking photo graphs of children. In reality it is the mothers who make the troubles and not I the children Another thing-if women wouidn | have their hair done when they come to have their pictures made" Miss Tyus | said 'curled up so tight and dressed so different from the usual every day way
 when the picture comes out it is perfectly unnatural looking and consequently eV- | erybody says it is a very poor likeness | But what is the poor photographer 10 oo | if women insist upon this sort of thing | Also the way some women (especlaliy tne young women) do their hair nowadays, with those big knots at the sides ol their faces This bizarre style Of heao- drees nhotographs just exactly as it looks like the sknotty side of an artichoke
 root 1 CT find the profession of photography
 l Miss Tvus said, "a most interesting ana | fascinating one; there are many attrac7 tive phases of it. It brings one m con tact with so many different types ot peo- ple. MT Wilson. has photographed alinos' every prominent man ana Woiiei III " mingham, during the time ne has peer here: not once, but many times-sone o them. We have a delightful clientele ane
 the people who get our best work are tii'
 n1easant agreeable people-but 1t IS una
 kind that get the best out of everythihs in life-in every walk-in every protes
 sion.
 Photography has advanced so muci
 within the past few years Miss lyu
 said. and especially beautiful are tn nezzotype photographs; the dittuseo tyne: these are strikingly beautiful; ant following close upon this new depar'uI
 in photography comes the caroo.ohe, :. is rea1lv the most artistic thing that ha