GETTING RID OF BORES.
A French politician of note is credited with a clever plan of ridding himself of unwelcome and importunate visitors. A photographic apparatus stands just in front of his study door. When a stranger enters the room, his " groom," by means of a simple contrivance, takes his portrait off-hand. If the master of the house has no wish to receive his visitor again, this portrait is at once placed iv the collection of counterfeit presentments of persons not to be admitted on any pretext whatsoever. The " groom " iv his leisure moments makes himself familiar with their features, and the politician is spared a vast amount of trouble and annoyance. So the story goes. It does
not, however, fall to the lot of every public character to possess a "groom" who is not only handy with the camera, but has such a memory for faces.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 125, 23 November 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)
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147GETTING RID OF BORES. Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 125, 23 November 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)
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