Women Before the Camera.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 182, 11 December 1886, Page 7

Women Before the Camera.

Women are self conscious enough, though under certain condition?. I don'fc believe that; in all tbo fine collection of photographs exhibited this year there are half a dozen girl-* who have not as. turned the expression they were taken in. It, is cuiiou-- to note the character displayed in the«e unknown facos — the bias toward the aenMrnpnlal, as in th'if. young lady.- with the fine eye« that gaze lanirunhmgly upward, v/ith her protty hands ckHped under her rather sharp chin. As a rnlo, I think thin girls most affect the moon -struck attitude. A cast of melancholy doe« not «nit excessive avoirdupois. Tho fab ones affect dignity as a general thing, and a fine reserve, even a haughtiness, indeed, before which the bravest photographer mu^t qu.iil at timea. Then. thoio is the cynical expression, though this i-> rare, and the expression of extreme felicity and goodwill toward all mankind, and the truntful, questioning exprepsion, and tho dobonnaire faucy look, like that upon the countenance of the pretty girl in the '-i.ilor hat and yachting euit. Men, as a general thing, affect either extreme sternness or lofty intellectuality in photo* tmiuh?, but a man's picture is much more likely to be a faithtul reproduction of his common mood than a woman's is o? here. Unconsciousness, wo are told, is the last rfFect of trood breeding. If photographs are to to be rcg>rried as indicat-ina; our pocj-csfeion of it, wo have noc advanced very far.