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Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 March 1910, Page 4

The Kitchener .sensation seems to bare hit Auckland fairly hard last week. At any rate let an Auckland business man tell the story of his own experience:— "At ten o'clock the cashier in my establishment was seized with influenza. At.noon the bookkeeper gasped and cojlapsed. .Roth men were sent home in cabs, and the crippled establishment was left to get along as welj as it could in such unforseen circumstances. At 1.30 the typist announced that she must go and put her feet in hot water, or dissolution would follow. She was given permission to save her life. At two o'clock two other clerks succumbed together; they attributed the attack to some fish of which they had partaken. I was then left alone, save for the presence of one small boy. I thought it over, and then put 011 my hat. and said: "Tommy, I think yon and I had better go and see Kitchener too!" If you should suggest to many amateur photographers the idea of taking portraits of children, you would find that instead of meeting the suggestion with enthusiasm, they would exhibit something very much like panic. Yet those who have made a practice of photographing children, say that not only are they more?- attractive subjects for photography than adults, but also that they are quite as easy to manage and arrange if they are rightly handled ; they are less conscious of their looks when in front of the camera, and far more naturally graceful an dadaptable. From 3 to 6 years is the best age for picture taking; then the little folks are full of imagination and fancy, and they are as playful and unconscious as kittens. The most satisfactory place for making a picture of a child is at home, and that is where the amateur photographer has an advantage over the professional. At the studio all the unusual arrangements and the fact that it is a strange place, makes it hard to get a natural, and impossible to get a. lively or jolly portrait. The best results are obtained by. the Kodak, <or the roll films, developed in the Kodak tank developing machine, are in every way superior to those produced in the old way. And then there's the great convenience of no dark room being Everyone who photographs, or is about to take up photography, should at once take advantage of the Imperial Camera Company's offer. The company will send free of any charge whatever, a valuable -illustrated book on photography, containing nearly 300 pages. This book as -of the greatest assistance to the amateur in the matter of details, advic4, etc., and also gives prices of all cameras and necessaries.. . Send to-, day for it. A postcard will bring it you by return mail, from the : Imperial Camera Company, 42 Willis street, Wellington.—Advt. I