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3 70 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. [July 30, 1880. Here is a chance, thought I; so I asked him if they were for sale. My new friend did not seem as if he cared to sell, but kept on praising his apparatus to me. At last, he con sented ; and I went to his house. He took me into the room, and I had tea with him, after which we proceeded upstairs, and my friend, opening a box, let me look at his lens and camera, together with other things. " There they are," he exclaimed; “ and finer you cannot get. I have done some fine work with them, sir." Well, after the examination of the articles, we proceeded downstairs to my friend's best room, where, smoking our cigars together, we passed a very pleasant evening. I need not trouble you with further details, but come to the point at once. 1 bought the articles, and paid my friend the photographer his price, which was not half what new things would have cost me. I thought I was fairly in luck’s way, for this gentleman was so delighted with my company that he offered me the use of his house during my stay at the place. As may be expected, I gladly accepted his kind invitation, and we spent several days in pleasure, visiting all the places of interest in the neighbourhood, fishing, and other amusements. My friend informed me that his wife was from home, and that the lady in the house was one he had engaged to attend to his house. During my visit I stood most of the expenses in return for my friend’s kind ness. On the evening of the third day of my visit my friend and I arranged to spend the next day in commencing photographic operations, he promising to put me in the way of working. We went out to the “ King,” and spent the night in a very pleasant manner. My friend was much jollier than usual, and paid freely for me ; we had a game or two at billiards, and then went home. He told me, in confidence, that he had a bill to meet, but was rather short. 1 lent him £10, for which he gave me a bill on the furniture (it was a splendid house, and well furnished, too). Being late when I went to bed that night, I did not get up so early next morning. Coming down into the room expect ing to meet my friend, I met the lady of the house, who said," Good morning, sir. Your brother left hero this morning at five o'clock; the boy assisted him to the station, and he sent word back we were to tell you he was safe off. Your breakfast is ready, and by the time you are ready for the eleven o’clock train I shall have all your luggage packed ready for you. as he told me you were going to join him to-day. To save time, I have made out the bill for you ; here it is. Your brother was here three weeks before you joined him.” To say I was surprised will convey a poor idea of my feelings at the time. I tried to explain that I was not his brother, and how I was there ; but it was no use, she only got into a temper (and she had a temper, too); so, rather than suffer the severity of a woman’s tongue, I paid the bill, and left with all speed. Arrived at home, I set the detectives after my friend for his unkindness, determined to have my money back, or revenge, if possible. I tried the apparatus, but found, after a great deal of expense and trouble, that they were useless things. A new set of good apparatus was pur- chasep from a respectable house, after which I had no difficulty. Let the inexperienced take a lesson from my experience, and get the best at first, or get an experienced person to purchase for them. Always avoid those photographers, as they call themselves, who have retired from the pro fession, and have some firstrate “things" for sale; par ticularly if they are travellers, as my friend was. Do not put too much confidence in a man because he is a photo grapher. If ever my friend and I meet in this world, 1 shall let him see that “it is never too late to mend"— his ways. Oorrespondente. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GASLIGHT. Sir.—In your “ At Home at Mr. Laws’ ’’ in which you describe photography by gaslight, you do not mention the cost of apparatus and burner. I hear that the Wigham burner that Mr. Laws employs costs about £5. Is this about the figure ? Then what is the cost of constructing the reflector, from first to last, as Mr. Laws has it, with the blue glass screen you speak about ? By answering these questions you will much oblige, A Working PHUTOGRAPHER. RECEPTION ROOM DUTIES. Dear Sib,—I am much interested in the correspondence which has appeared lately in your journal on the subject of reception room duties, and I feel impelled to say a little on the subject—one, I am sure, very interesting to a great number of your readers. My experience has been gained during seven years’ labour in a quiet select West End business, and I think a few words from mo may not be out ofplace in your journal, and may help to draw photographers’ attention to some of the difficulties attendant on reception room duties. They aro many and various, but all, it must be acknowledged, more or less trying to the temper. It requires a large amount of patience to endure, day after day, the selfishness and vanity constantly displayed, and to quietly submit to the loss of much valuable time in useless trifling, mostly resulting in nothing. Besides the care of therecep- : tion room itself, and the other duties generally intrusted ■ to the lady, there is much required of her in the manage- | ment of sitters, for great tact is necessary in dealing with । them ; any one who has had experience knows that no I absolute rule can possibly be laid down in such inatteis, and that while the principal is occupied in his studio, the entire responsibility rests on the person in charge of the reception room. If the rule of payment at the time of sitting were universally adopted, and carried out without infringement, how great would be the advantage, how much I less the work and duties, devolving on the lady in the reception room, and how much larger the receipts at the end of the year to the proprietor! My experience certainly tends to show that the public do not consider the photo grapher’s time valuable, and fail to see their indebtedness to him if the result prove not as flattering as their vanity, I aided by the looking-glass, leads them to expect. Sitters of this class are only too well known to all photographers. When visiting a studio they express unbounded astonish ment if the subject of payment bo mildly suggested, and usually announce their determination to first see results; yet at the door of a theatre they never make the plea that they must first see and approve the performance before pay ment, or, at the booking office of a railway, state that they would prefer to pay at the end of the journey. One fact must have struck all photographers, and that is, bow easily pleased is the sitter who has first paid, and how seldom a resitting is asked for, whilst it is only too well known that those who have not paid, make and re-make appointments for re-sittings, and sometimes never complete the transaction at all. Such is my experience. I only hope it is not that of all photographers. Feeling strongly on this subject, I cannot help thinking photographers have themselves chiefly to blame for this unsatisfactory stateuof things.—Faithfully yours, G. G. COMMERCIAL PLATES. Sir,—Cannot manufacturers be persuaded to employ better glass for their films ? The plates are of all thick-
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