Show polite photographers photographer the knack which french photographers and especially those of paris possess in relieving their sitters of a constrained and distressed look while sitting bitting for their portraits has long been the envy and perplexity of photographers of other nations am aa american photographer on a recent visit to paris took pains to study the means by which this thia very desirable result was reached he reports that it all lies in a very simple device which well illustrates the nature of tho the frenchman when a lady for instance is sitting bitting to a photographer for a portrait the operator does docs not in a perfunctory manner coldly request her to look pleasant now ma arnt he says to her in the most natural and graceful manner in the world its quite unnecessary to ask madam to look pleasant she could not look other otherwise 1 the lady of course acknowledges the compliment with her most gracious and highbred smile emile clackl Click ill goes the camera and the picture tire is obtained revealing the sitter at her highwater high water mark as it were youths companion |