Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1913 — MOVEMENT THAT WAS FATAL [ARTICLE]

MOVEMENT THAT WAS FATAL

Sitter at a Loss to Understand Why Temporary Absence Should Have Spoiled the Plate. Chairman Underwood of the ways and means committee was talking, at a luncheon in Washington, about tariff revision. “We must obey the country's mandate,” he said. “If we don’t, our tariff revision will be disastrous. We’ll fall as lamentably as the sitter for the wetplate photograph. “When photography first began, you know, they used wet plates, and a sitter required eight or nine minutes. Well, a man once went to be taken, and the photographer put in his wet plate, demanding perfect Immobility, and took off the cap. “During the long exposure, the photographer left" the TOdm a moment. On his return everything seemed to be going all right, but when the exposure ended, and he rushed to his closet to develop the wet plate, there was nothing on it but a blur. “Very much disgusted, he showed the blur to the sitter. “ ‘You must have moved,’ he said. “The sitter looked at the spoiled plate and laughed in amazement. “‘Well, I declare!’ he said. ‘Who’d have thought that Just running over to the window for a minute to see a drunken man would have done all that? I sat right down again.’"