Evening star., 1946-09-26
This and That
By Charles E. TrdceUeH.
BETHESDA, Md.

Dear Sir:
You once wrote an article on pic
lures in the everyday life that present
themselves just for few seconds and
then are gone, and must be grasped In
Stantly II they are to be seen at all.
We'll, I had one that way the other
day. We have small cat in our house.
hold now, a nice little fellow given to
posing. Wherever he is he strikes a
post and holds it, but not for long.
This day he was seated on his
launches in the back corner of a big
chair, and suddenly he simply laid his
head sideways on the arm of the chair
and went to sleep.
1T was marvellous pose, and would
have made wonderful photograph, but
knew that the first click of the shut
ter-it would have had to be a time
eXposure-would have made him raise
his head suddenly, spelling the shot.
I could not get the picture, but like
to share the idea of the picture with you.
Sincerely, j. D. S."
r
The cat and the dog, both, often take
marvellous poses.
Nothing can excel the look q dog
can give you when suddenly he cocks
his head on the side.
This Is fine pose in cat, too, often
taken when he is surprised.
Such gestures are the finest photo
graphs, but, as our correspondent sug-
gests, one is seldom lucky enough to
get them.
Even an expert might work all day
trying to get such shot"
Then 1t might be spoiled at the last
moment.
So the best way for the average per-
son to enjoy these sudden poses is in
the mind, where they may be kept un-
sullied and intact for long time.
In this way they may be brought out
of memory at any time for enjoyment
the true Savoring of experience which
Is one of the joys of life.
Too many persons keep in the pre-
cious mental gallery pictures and images
which should not be there, for their
own good.
And often they fail to register the
little things of the everyday, so deserv-
ing of a good place because they hold
so much satisfaction in the days to come
Life Is full of these sudden photo
eras is on hand to register them. One
precious part of the eye is actually q
prolongation of the brain.
1t does not take brains to see, al
least not conscious mind. The ami
mails, existing but not knowing them
selves to be existing, see as well as OF
better than humans, but their minds
do not register the resulting pictures.
They have no mental picture gal
1ery, into which they may consciously
walk in the days to come. It is pos
sible for every human to open the door
Of his own private gallery at will. But
what will he see when the door Is
open?
Momentous photographs burn them
selves into the memory. The little
everyday ones often pass unrecognized
and sometimes by the very persons who
ought to know better than to let them
glide away.
The whole world today is living or
the brink of disaster which has its
origin only in the human mind.
This disaster, if it comes, is mind.
caused.
Otherwise it does not exist. 1t is q
| picture In the human mind. Only bits
OF 1t come to most minds, but evidently
there are some minds, fairly well scat.
tered around the world, who have bull
| up these horrible pictures of disaster
to lifelike point. What are the res
of us to do? Slowly, bit by bit, accep
their mental pictures? Not as long a!
there are enough persons left to see {
cat in corner and to recognize that 1t
! too, makes . worthy picture.