SITTING FOR A PHOTOGRAPH.
Haying a photograph taken (says the Danbary News) is one of the great events of a man's, life* . The obief desire is to look the very best, and on the success of the picture hinges in many, eases the most important epoch in life. To work up a proper appearance time enough is used, which if devoted to catching fleas for their phosphorus, woald cancel the entire national- debt, and establish a New York daily paper. go to the galjery, and fore* yourselves into a nonchalance of expression that is too absurd for anything. Then yon take the chair, spread your legs graoefnlly, appropriate, a very calm and . indifferent look and commence to perspire. An attenuated man with a pale face, long hair, and a soiled nose now comes eat of a cavern and adjusts the camera. Then he getsl>aek of you and tells yon to sit back as far as you can in the chair, and that it has been a remarkable backward spring. After getting yon back till your spine, interferes with the chair itself, he shoves your head into a pair of ice tongs, and dashes at the camera again. Here with a piece of discoloured velvet over his head, he bombards yon in thii manner: "Your chin .out a little, please." The chin is protruded. "That's nicely; now a little more.", The. ohm advances again, and the pomade commences to melt and start for freedom, then he comes back to yon and slaps one of your hands upon your leg in such a position as to. give yon the appearance of * trying to lift it I over your head. The other is turned over itself, and has become so sweaty that I you begin to fear that it will stick there i permanently. A new stream of pomade finds ifeway out and starts downwards. Thenjpsbakes your bead in the tongs till it settles right, and says it looks like rain, and puts your chin out again, and punches out your chest and says he doesn't know what the poor are to do next winter unless there is a radical change in affairs, and then takes the top of your head in one band and your chin in the other, and gives your cbin a wrench that would earn any other man a prominent position in a new hospital. Then he runs bis hand through his hair and scratches bis scalp, and steps back to the camera and the injured velvet for another look. By this time new sweat and pomade have starred out. The white of your eyes show unpleasantly, and your whole body feels as if it had been visited by an enormous cramp, and another and much bigger one was momentarily expected. Then be points at something for "you to look at, tolls you to look cheerful and composed, and snatches away the velvet and pulls out the watch. When he gets tired and you feel that there is very little left in this world for you to live for, he restores the velvet, says it is an unfavorable day for a picture, but be hopes for the best, and immediately disappears in his den. Then you get np and stretch yourself, slap' on your hat, and immediately, sneak home, feeling mean, bumbled, and altogether too wretched for description. The first friend who sees the picture says he can sec enough resemblance to make certain it is you, but you have tried to look too formal to be natural and graceful.
The Mexican Ceutral Railroad is advancing rapidly, for Mexico, that is, 100 miles in eighteen months. It will run north-west, from the city of Mexico to Leon. The engine of the train which west down with the Tar Bridge has, affer being repaired at Uowlairs, been placed' on the line between Edinburgh and Glasgow. ■-';<■ ;
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3721, 27 November 1880, Page 1
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645SITTING FOR A PHOTOGRAPH. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3721, 27 November 1880, Page 1
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