Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1912 — Had Hit Reasons. [ARTICLE]

Had Hit Reasons.

Seeing that his repeated requests to look pleasant only caused his subject to scowl more fiercely, the photographer ceased to look pleasant himself. “If you can’t cheer up,” he said, “we might as well call this sitting off. You seem an amiable sort of chap. Why can’t yea look pleasant when I tell you tor “Because I don’t want to,” said the man before the camera. “My wife' is going to send these pictures to some relatives of hers whom I have never seen, and it Is my intention to look like a brigand, so they won’t come.*' ~ . , '