Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1881 — Having Your Picture Taken. [ARTICLE]

Having Your Picture Taken.

No wonder a man hates to have hie picture taken. When he gets seated the photographer tells him to look perfectly natural. So the fellow makes a desparate effort to twist his face into its natural expression. The effort generally results in an expression like unto that of a madman trying to look cross-eyed and plan a murder at the same time, and when he sees the picture he thinks that if it looks natural he must be too mortally homely to have his picture lying around. And he doesn’t submit to the process again in a hurry.— Boston Post.