Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1910 — As Others See Us. [ARTICLE]

As Others See Us.

“The man who can pick nut the best picture of himself fs a rare bird,” said a photographer. "Even an author, who is reputedly a poor Judge of bis own work, exercises vast wisdom In selecting his best book compared with the Person who tries to choose his best photograph. Every famous man or woman who has been photographed repeatedly has his or her favorite picture. Usually It Is the worst In the collection. It shows him or her with an unnatural expression, sitting or standing In an unnatural attitude. The Inability to Judge of his best picture must be due to the average man’s Ignorance of bow he really looks, or perhaps It can be partly attributed to a desire to look other than he does. A stout man will swear that the photograph most nearly like him is the one that makes him look thin, a thin man the one that makes him look stout, the solemn man selects the politest picture, the jovial man the most cadaverous.—* Philadelphia Ledger.