Street Attractions

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 152, 24 March 1938, Page 5

Street Attractions

“T HAVE enough of those things to paper a room I” And cousin Cicely thrust my ticket back at me. I should have known better than to show it to her. For the first time I had been photographed in the street, and in my humdrum routine of life it was a more or less major event.

The young man with the camera had smiled so nicely at me, too. But cousin Cicely had had it happen to her dozens of times it seemed. And then I found that all my friends

were apparently littered up with street photograph tickets. They could not walk on a city street without being photographed. So I asked some of them what they looked like. And all of them said that they had never bothered to go and see. Remarkable that they should all think the same. Poor fellows, I thought, they musr ail be starving if no one ever buys their pictures. How do they have the courage to carry on? Stranger still, was the fact that when I went to the shop to buy my picture, I met cousin Cicely looking very pleased with herself, “Look, she said, " what do you think of that? That’s me near the footpath 1" —N.B.