Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1910 — THICK OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER. [ARTICLE]

THICK OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER.

Latest Device Is Exposed by Woman Wbo Posed for the Picture. “You must not Imagine,” said the woman of the world, according to the New York Tribune, “that just because the camera Is of necessity truthful one can depend upon the veracity of a photograph. One can’t. The very latest conceit—l may say, deceit—of the fashionable photographer seems to me worth telling about. “Now, just about once In her life a woman gets a picture that satisfies her, and I don’t mind confessing that when It Is my picture I want it to be a fulsome flatterer. I know one woman who has her one faultless picture taken ten years ago. She has now reached that painful period when birthdays are no longer hilarious occasions, and the picture is out of date in the matter of sleeves and hadr. So when she felt recently that It was time to pay another visit to the photographer she sought out the one who had treated her so well a decade ago. She took with her a print of the old negative and she had herself posed In precisely the same attitude. This was for the hair and dress of the new picture. As to the face, I don’t know by what mysterious means the photographer accomplished It, but the face was lifted from the old picture and put Into the new one —a picture that is entirely satisfactory. The hair and sleeves of the new picture are of 1910 model and the face doesn’t look a bit younger than when the subject Is in her own room with side lights and rose-colored shades. Furthermore, the woman is so proud of It that she makes no bones of telling how the thing was done. She says it’s every woman’s privilege to be the age she chose for insertion in her marriage license and for her best photograph, even If she can’t blot out the record In the family Bible.”