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im© shmk paro (MF/^aJ ElLESMirtell 9T [E past few years has witnessed the de-Sj - H' velopment of a unique activity, the pur Q pose of which Is to satisfy public curios-„ ity regarding men and women who are ? IHK j prominent in one or another of the con-; V J spicuous walks of life. This particularly up-to-date vocation might be denorriinat m "snap-shotting" of celebrities, which means He making of instantaneous photographs of the Hople who are temporarily or permanently in the public eye and whose personal appearance is conse quently a matter of Interest to the people of all parts of the country. Few newspaper readers who take delight in the mass of pictures spread nowadays over evqry print ed page, ever stop to reflect what a comparatively short time ago it was that first saw such embellish ment of the chronicle of the day’s happenings. Most of our readers can doubtless remember distinctly the time when pictures were unknown in their favor ite newspaper, and even after crude cuts began to make their appearance In the advertising columns of the weeklies, and later in the dailies, it was a long lapse ere the pictures were to be found In the read ing columns and a yet longer time before the reader came to expect not mere scenic subjects but graphic pictures of the current happenings of the busy world. The vocation of snap-shotting celebrities has been the outgrowth—the very latest outgrowth, it might bo termed —of the practise of recording in pic ture as well as in story tho doings of all the world. When the newspaper-reading public caffio to expect tho quick reflection in picture form of great happen- ) m 3 kS Vff' gtcbttaby or statb mox, babop VTPGT/Ml//. /SB, OPST/CS HO/MSB ABO maw BABBITTT. J ° ■1 over the world It speedily progressed from places and things to curiosity regarding appearance of the people regarding whose had much to say. It was not should print as a of this or that public man a ■Hat portrait, touched up to show the to appear rattier than as appear. Newspaper readers with gHvnu.it e Information came to demand ss Hp would show the subjects as they f ' ■■ Moreover, they wanted not a HRcc bust photo, but a full length ptc ould represent Its object as he would one who met him on tho street and unit as to hts distinctive characteristics Vdress. etc. From this demand was born the "snap shot." the snap-shot Is to a large extent Hiplacing the stereotyped visage In tho public Brlnts. Almost everybody who achieves fame 'em notoriety must must needs fall victims to the sharpshooters of the camera. The snap-shotter Is no respecter or callings so long as "hu man Interest” Is present, and everybody, from preachers to pugilists and from statesmen to suffragists, Is the quarry of the camera scout at one time or another. Some of the people w r ho are snap-shotted manifestly relish It; a great number accept It as a matter of course and, a minority wriggle and squirm and even fight at sight of a camera. Conspicuous among the latter are Harry Lehr, the Newport society pet of monkey dinner fame, and J. Plerpont Morgan, the finan cier. It must be admitted that the father of trusts does not make a pretty picture when taken unawares and he evidently realizes this, for he Is usually guarded by several private detectives when he appears in public and carries a cane which he is quick to use on any offending camera that he can reach. Public officials, headed by the president of the United States, are usually the most satisfactory subjects for snap-shots because, whatever may be their natural Inclination In the matter, they quickly learn to submit gracefully to this sort of attention. A leading statesman or army or navy official who realizes that at public functions he Is liable to be continually In the camera eye Is likely to Instinctively avoid those awkward attitudes and facial grimaces that sometimes spoil things in the case of a celebrity who Is new to the game and self-conscious In consequence. From the standpoint of the snap-shotters perhaps the most satisfactory subjects in this country are the diplomats at Washington—that is, the alien offi cials who are stationed at our seat of government as the ambassadors or ministers of foreign pow ers. For one thing, these titled foreigners are possessed of gorgeous uniforms that show up well in unconventional pictures, and then again they are accustomed to being constantly on dress parade. The snap-shotter must “quick on the trigger” and he cultivates ability in this direction almost as earnestly as the gun fighter of the west did in the old days. The newspaper snap-shots are made by means of special cameras made specially for the purpose, and costing as much as $250 apiece. Only a fraction of a second is required, of course, to make a snap-shot, once the lens is focused upon a celebrity in a desired position, but the uncertainty lies in the fact that the celebrity is seldom actually posing for his picture. More than likely he may not realize that he is being caught by the camera or mayhan may be trying >''-J ' ■ \__y ■' . -•- i[Slk 'YOB M£Y£~B P/TCPYPG T/if J3AU JHTO THf P/S/J) fOR A SOCMTY BALL fLfl jWK w-Cjj •- . - S£CB£TABY OB STAT£ BP OX ABB MBS. £> C. B/YQXi to dodge the glass eye pointed toward him. In any event quick action is necessary at the crit ical moment if the subject sought is to be caught ere he moves away, turns his head or otherwise spoils the picture. Indeed the snap-shotter who would "catch on the wing” such restless spirits as Colonel Roosevelt must develop a sort of sixth sense that will enable him to anticipate with rea sonable certainty the future moves of his subject No other American of the day is so much pho tographed as is Colonel Roosevelt, and yet he Is by no means an easy subject for good pictures. It is not that he objects to the operation; Indeed, * he seems to utterly ignore the cameras that are pointed at him a dozen times a day. But the colonel is one of the most active and sudden of men, and the snap-shotter must be on the alert every minute of the time or he loses the golden opportunity to catch the ex-president at the “psy chological moment.” This was admirably illus- ENTERTAINING THE BLIND. "In these days of specialists you can’t Just step out and help your fellow humans lu haphaz ard fashion,” said the matron on an Institution for the blind. "You have to take a course of training before you can even do good in the world. In this position the task that requires most di plomacy is declining the services of people who offer to entertain the blind. All sorts of Incom petents volunteer. Their intentions are good, but their achievements are deplorable. Poor readers are most numerous and are hardest to manage. They have had no practise In reading aloud since they left the lower grades in the grammar school, yet when the fires of benevolence break out that is the first thing they want to do. “The blind are particularly sensitive to the quality of a voice. A harsh, high pitched voice that rambles on without rhyme or reason gets on their nerves, and it is our duty to shut out all such readers. They have to be handled with care because their hearts are in the right place, and with tact their good intentions may be de flected into some useful channel.” KING'S BEARD MODEL FOR ENGLISHMEN. Beards are at present the order of the day among London's fashionable "men-about-town.” In remarking about the prevalence of facial hir sute adornments, a prominent hairdresser said: “One would not have thought that the coming of King George to the throne would have made much difference to the fashion of current hair dressing, in view of the fact that his father wore a beard for so many years, but I can assure you it has, and a very great difference at that. “In all probability the present fashion of the point beard is due in a great measure to so young a man affecting one. I have been told that there was a great rage for beards among ‘men-about town’ when King Edward first grew a beard many years ago. “In my opinion the average Englishman is tremendously imitative. The style of beard King George wears is appropriately named the ‘torpedo’ in the navy, and since the king's ac cession many of the younger men in the service have started to grow them.” zYAPAPSJS AMBASSADOR a APD 3ABOPSSS UCHJOA trated many a time during the colonel’s trip through the west. Several . professional photographers accompanied him, and a number of the press correspondents also car ried cameras, and often It was a wild race for them to keep up with Mr. Roosevelt and be on hand at the time when the good "human Interest" plo tures were to be had. Whenever Colonel Roose velt appeared, unless the po '««4ice arrangements prevented, he was at once surrounded by a cheering crowd, every man, woman and child of which was trying to get close enough to grasp his hand or at least to say “Hello, Teddy.” At such tlm s a snap-shot usually yielded only a mass of heads and backs surrounding a set oi gleaming teeth. If Mr. Roose velt was carefully guarded by police or soldiers, as was the case in some cities, the task of the photographer was al most as difficult, for the "cop pers” and deputy sheriffs of -.z. ffiF\^iilßß3|Hpk'*rS r^jiy» >ift’Hw%Sp^ v • ;>• *V ", JtfiP&U «-rl " ' ' ••• BP A A SPOT 0£ TP£ BP/T/SH AMBASSADOR 'APO MBS. JAMBS BBYCB the western towns seemed to have much more self importance than common sense. In Denver two of the camera men were left behind when the colonel and his party went to the auditorium and arrived to find that building packed to the doors and surrounded by a ring of mounted police. To one of these they appealed In vain. “But we are supposed to be with Mr. Roosevelt's party,” said one of them finally. "Well,” was the chilly re sponse, "If you are supposed to be with them, why aren’t you?” And the officer’s horse scornfully switched his tail in their faces. It was In Denver, too, that one of the most amusing scenes of the trip was witnessed. The Press club gave a "chuck-wagon” luncheon to the colonel in a park. "Here,” said the camera men, “Is our chance for some good stuff.” So they put In fresh films or plates and hustled out there by the dozen. The colonel, in the midst of a throng of self-invited Colorado deputy sheriffs, stood at the rough board table and -every time he reached for a bit of meat or put a morsel of food into his mouth there was a perfect fusillade of clicks from the cameras that surrounded him. The photog raphers were ranged in a triple ring about the chuck wagon, those with little cameras in front, stooping low; next, the men with the larger hand cameras, and in the rear the local artists, who had big machines on high tripods. It was in truth a comical sight, but the colonel did not seem to mind it a bit, and went on eating and talking with the utmost enthusiasm. The visit to Cheyenne, of course, gave the snap shotters their best chances for picturesque views, for there the colonel could be caught almost any time shaking hands with the cowboys, cowgirls and gaudily painted Indians, or applauding the -work of the broncho-busters. There is a Chicago newspaper man who once had the unique experience of being the only person with a camera present at the coronation of a king. The monarch in question was Mataafa, who had been elected king of Samoa by a majority of the inhabitants of those delectable islands in 1898. His reign, to be sure, lasted but a few months, for after a gallant struggle he was most unjustly deposed by the Americans and British, who thereupon parti tioned the islands with Germany. The perform ance took place in the open, but the king and the chiefs who anointed him were not to be ap proached within some fifty yards. So rigid is Sa moan etiquette that the one man with the camera did not dare to break through the surrounding ring of natives, and had perforce to be content with such views as could be had from a distance. . r ’A « £ SB#' “Bound to m Cur.” A GENEROUSOFFER If you know beyond a doubt that ■’Digestit," the new relief for stom achs, would relieve Indigestion and' cure dyspepsia, you would not hesi tate to buy a 50c package today. Just to prove to you the unusual merit of this new remedy we will send you a full size 50c package on receipt of 10c to pay mailing cost—or if your Druggist has “Digestit" in stock we will send you an order on him for a full size 50c package free. Get a package and take two or three ‘tab lets after meals —repeat the dose in half an hour in obstinate cases. Then you will know Its merits. Address W. L. Brown Company, Box J, Jackson, Miss. Hardly a Compliment. In the excitement of the moment public speakers often say the opposite of what they mean to convey, and “when Henry Irving gave a reading In the Ulster hall. In 1878,” says Brain Stoker, In “Personal Remlnscences of Henry Irving,” “one speakef made as pretty an Irish bull as could be found, though the bull is generally sup- ; posed to belong to other provinces than the hard-headed Ulster. In des- i canting on the many virtues of the guest of the evening he mentioned the excellence of his moral nature and rectitude of his private life in these terms: “Mr. Irving, sir, Is a gentle man what leads a life of unbroken blemish.’ ” BABY’S SCALP CRUSTED “Our little daughter, when three months old, began to break out on the I head and we had the best doctors to j treat her, but they did not do her any good. They said she had eczema. Her ; scalp was a solid scale all over. The burning and itching was so severe that she could not rest, day or night. We had about given up all hopes when we read of the Cutlcura Remedies. We at once got a cake of Cutlcura Soap, a box of Cutlcura Ointment and one bot tle of Cutlcura Resolvent, and fol lowed directions carefully. After the first dose of the Cuticura Resolvent, we used the Cutlcura Soap freely and applied the Cutlcura Ointment Then she began to Improve rapidly and In two weeks the scale came off her head and new hair began to grow. In a very short time she was well. She Is now sixteen years of age and a pic ture of health. We used the Cutl cura Remedies about five weeks, reg ularly, and then we could not tell she had been affected by the disease. We used no other treatment after we found out what the Cutlcura Remedies would do for her. J. Fish and Ella M. Fish, ML Vernon, Ky., OcL 12, 1909.” Different. "That man wouldn’t touch a cent that didn't belong to him.” “I know," replied Mr. Dustin Stax. 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