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Show PHOTOGRAPHER WAS CRAFTY Rural Bride Was an Easy Prey When Assured That Her Freckles Would Not Show. Obviously, they were on their honeymoon. hon-eymoon. That they were from the country was also patent, says the Baltimore Bal-timore Star. lie, attired In a new ready-to-wear suit in which he was most uncomfortable, felt himself the center of admiring glances as he walked down Baltimore street, with his blushing bride clutching jealously jealous-ly his arm as though she feared some of the fashionably attired city girls would steal her handsome swain. She also wore a new dress, but it wasn't made in Paris, or even New York. The peregrinating man with the picture, taking machine marked them as legitimate prey. "Come along," he shouted to the newlyweds, "be a sport. Get your picture taken to take back to the country. Only a dime." I'll take you in any position." The pair halted. He wanted his photograph taken. She didn't. The peregrinating photographer knew his business. He wasted no time on the swain. He was easy prey. On the bashful bride he focused all the blandishments blan-dishments of his art. "Come along," he coaxed, "this Is a wonderful machine. ma-chine. It will make you look beautiful. beauti-ful. You can hand the picture down to your grandchildren to admire." The bride blushed deeper. The swain had straightened his four-in-hand tie, bought already tied. He was ready for the ordeal. But the bride hung coyly back. Finally she summoned courage and slipping her arm from that of her husband she approached ap-proached the photographer and whispered whis-pered in his ear. The photographer didn't smile. He was out for the money. A contented smile suffused her sunburned face at his reply. After Aft-er patting her hair, she stood beside her husky swain and the photographer snapped the camera. The reporter was curious. Reporters Report-ers generally are. After the couple had departed to spend another ten cents on some other attraction, he asked the voluble photographer what the bride had whispered 4h him. The photographer smiled, and it was good to see so hard working a man smile. "She asked me if her freckles would show in the picture," he con- . Bded. "I told her that this machine was made especially to conceal freckles in a photograph." |