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A Beautiful Hand Pose by the
Duchess of Westminster.
Copyriqht EOHQpft.
BY ALLISTER BRYCrl.
THE average person who sits for
a photograph, who makes a
speech, acts in amateur dramatics
or who is placed in any situation
likely to make that person self-conscious,
very soon meets the awful
problem of the hands. Whatever emo
tion or a controlled pretense that
there is no emotion may accomplish
with the face, the hands are not so'
easily managed.
Every photographer knows this.
Every stage manager, every movie di
rector, knows this.
You who go to the movies have been
in the habit of thinking of faces as
presenting the great difficulty. You
probably haven't stopped to think of
the hours of labor spent by actor or
actress or by the director In getting
hands to do their work properly.
It all looks so easy! When a thing
is right, when It looks natural, we
take it for granted.
The Child's Hand.
A baby's hand doesn't need to be
posed. It spreads or closes like the
petals of a flower. The unconscious
gestures of a child fill the most ac
complished actor or artist .ith envy.
Everything that art does is directed
to bringing self-conscious grown-ups
back to nature in keeping and using
the balance of the body and its ele
ments. Hands get "muscle bound." They lose
their pliancy. Habi.t In holding, lift
ing, safeguarding and in wearing
gloves Influences seriously the reten
tion of grace. When grace is needed
It must be learned like a lesson, ex
cept in those rare cases where for
getfulness of them gives them habit
ually or on occasion something of the
grace that naturalness has.
The Delsarte students, the dramatic
students, the art students, all are
taught to remember that the hand
should be "the fringe of the arm."
The arm should "flow" out into the
fingers. Next time you watch a great
actress In the spoken drama or on the
screen notice how her fingers follow
her wrist action rather than pre
cede it.
We are talking now of beauty, of
grace. There are dramatic obligations
which at times demand that the hand
shall, while keeping its right rela
tions to the wrist and arm, have the
initiative of a serpent's head, as in
some clutch of covetousness or anger.
Dramatic Ohllsatlona.
But when you go to be photographed
your problem is of a different sort.
If you are a man you want your hand
to look manly. A "lily" effect would
be absurd. If you are a woman you
don't want your hands to express
masculine energy, but the pliant, dex
terous energy of a woman.
Let the photographer direct you. He
will tell you to leave your hand abso
lutely "limp" before he places It and I
not to "set" It until he has found the
best possible line. The dramatic teach
er has one of his most exasperating
tasks in teaching pupils to walk with
both arms absolutely limp, and the
hands hanging "like fringe."
At Your Finder Knifa.
If he is a wise photographer he lets
the lens see your wrists the narrow
rather than the wide way whenever
this is possible. Of course he will not,
if he is a good photographer, pose a
private person as he would a public
person, a quiet mother of a family as
he would a stage favorite. A famous
beauty like Lady Diana Manners can
. afford to be posed in a spectacular
way, with her Jewels, but most wom
en not in public life and subject to
continual pictorial publicity would pre
fer the simpler style in which the
photographer has treated the Duchess
of Westminster.
Naturally, the manicurist becomes
an important factor in any considera
tion of pictured hands. Some hands
seem beautiful under any circum
stances. Others seem hopelessly un
pictorial and ugly in themselves, but
no hand Is beyond improvement from
the manicurist, and no hand but that
may be helped by an artist's Ingenuity
before the camera.
In ordinary portraiture the finger
nails are, indeed, scarcely likely to
reveal themselves In detail, but the
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The Hand in Melodrama.
The "Double Curve" of tho
Two Hands Beside the Face.
shaping of the finger ends is likely to
be discernible even in a comparatively
small image, so that the care of the
fingers becomes important in a defi
nite degree.
Photographers, like painters, have
varying skill in matters of the hand.
Some camera artists who can render
a face with uncommon skill are help
less before the hands. Others, again,
who can give a hand exceptional beau
ty or effect are inferior in their man
agement of facial lightings.
it is a platitude of the art schools
that it is harder to draw a hand than
to draw a face. In this view it is
natural that photographing a hand
should be regarded as more difficult
than photographing a face. When you
consider the infinite variation of pos
sible position for the thumb and his
four brothers it is easy to understand
that position alone, without regarl to
lighting, is a problem calling, for great
gifts. Moreover, the face "must be
looked after first, and when the face
has its best ligh. the hands must be
managed in that same light, though
the volume of lipht is often reduced
for the hands by the aid of special
screens.
Sometimes, it must be admitted, the
desperate camera man decides to con
ceal the hands partly or wholly. The
very fact that one hand, at least, is
likely to be nearer the camera than is
the face brings danger of enlarge
ment, and often results In some little
trick that partly hides the full form
of the troublesome member. If the
hand is a good hand the enlargement
is not so serious as it would be in the
case of an ungainly hand. For in
stance, Lady Manners' hand, as shown
in tne portrait on this page, is nearer
the camera than Is tho face, but its
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 2G- 1JT1G.
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Photograph of Miss
Laura Cowie, the
"British Beauty,
Showing Hands as
Adjusted to a
Standing Position.-
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Artistic Position of
Odd Pose by Miss
slight enlargement on that account
cannot greatly mar the beauty of the
hand or its pose.
You ask me: May the sitter help the
situation by studying the hand ques
tion? The reasonable answer is that
hand grace may be studied for rea
sons quite beyond the camera, and
that such grace will help much when
it comes to any pictorial function be
fore the camera or before an audi
. "
1 Lep-inska. I
THANKSGIVING FEAST PROVIDED
BY DOUGLAS COUNTY FARMERS
(Continued From First PaKe.)
Ing high school and was dissuaded
from doing so only by the fear that her
personal development might not go for
ward rapidly enough, and might even
be halted, if she became engrossed In
this work at so early an age. So she
took up teaching, "although I can make
much more money raising turkeys,'
she said. She teaches the Third and
Fourth grades in the Yoncalla School.
Her turkey ranch, which she still helps
her brother to run, is only a few miles
out of town.
A few years ago Miss Edwards was
teaching school for JBO a month. Last
year she sold her turkeys, the biggest
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.t . , . x , y Fragment of Dramatic Action.
The Marvellously Pretty Hand
of Lady Diana Manners
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the Hands nau
Jose Collins. P" to ncpp
ence. In the matter of portraiture only
the man behind the camera can tell
when the hands really are right.
This fact applies to simple as well
as to complicated situations. It is as
Important where the hands are to be
inconspicuous as where they are to be
starred. Hometlmes it takes positive
genius ..to make hands Inconspicuous.
This genius must be expressed by the
camera man.
single herd in the entire state, for
$1100. No wonder these girls quit
teaching to raise Thanksgiving din
ners. "They are nice and cheerful to look
at these days, when prices are up, and
going up." says Miss Edwards. "Frank
ly, the high cost of turkeys has a
cheerful side. The birds are fine this
Fall. The Spring rains and timber
hawks weeded them out pretty well. 1
have 200 from about half as many hens
as I had last year, so I guess they are an
average crop.
"I made some new mistakes and
learned some things, ivext year I am
going to keep all my old hens, and
Dramatic Action.
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The "Lily" Hand
'it-am uornc more. They tell me. 'It
I In't done, you know.' but I have some
! extra fine birds, and I want to know,
j "Turkeys are sometimes quite fool
; Ish." continues Miss Edwards. "A big
j hen Just sat and let an owl c hew her
up and discourage her with Ufa so she
had to be slain. Later I administered
a small portion of rtrychnine in a bit
of chicken breast the owl left, and now
he sleeps beside the turkey."
These three frlrls together this year
their success is due to their natural
feminine attention to details, and tur
key raising is made up of a "multitude
of little things." Three young women
and something like $3000 truly Ore
gon girls are as wonderful as Oregon
turkeys, and both without parallel.
Two college men are engaged In tur
key raising Oscar OorreU of the Uni
versity of Oregon, who annually raises
a big herd on his farm west of Oakland,
and McKinley Huntington, who has
been mentioned, of the Agricultural
College.
Weight la Iaveat4.
Mr. Huntington has Invented an In
genious "turkey weight." which is of
great service In picking. It consists of
un ordinary brick with & wire fastened J
around the middle of it so that a free
end of some inches in length Is left,
which is bent into a hook, the point
filed sharp. This hook pierces the
nether bill of the suspended turkey and
keeps htm straight and rigid for pick
ing. The device has several advan
tages, which &re here enumerated:
First It holds the bill apart, letting
the bird bleed freely.
Second It prevents blood from fly
ing all over the feathers, keeping them
clean and salable.
Third It keeps the clothes and face
of the picker from becoming soiled with
blood.
Fourth It holds the turkey steady
and permits the picker to begin picking
as soon as the bird is killed flopping
and kicking soon cease.
Fifth It causes the bird to cool in a
straight and graceful shape.
Sixth Because of the straight legs
and neck it makes the turkey easy t
wrap and pack.
Friiy la Turkey Day.
Most of the Oakland turkeys are
killed for the Thanksgiving market.
The Friday before Thanksgiving is
called "Turkey day." It is usually the
most active day of the year In Oakland.
Other Oregon towns have their rose
carnivals, agate carnivals, huckleberry
carnivals, strawberry carnivals, rhodo
dendron carnivals, round-ups, and so
on. without end. but Oakland, without
a formal celebration, honors the tur
key and, more important still, is hon
ored in a practical manner by him.
Between $30,000 and $40,000 is paid out
by the local banks on that day. In the
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M. Caretto Says Hands
Should Be as Completely
"Subject to Direction
by the Photographer
as Are the Hands of
the Marionette.
The "Flowing" Thumb" Is
Shown in This Pose.
in Profile.
evening the local high school basketball
team plays a game with some neigh
boring high school teaam. on the home
floor, of course, because not only are
the gate receipts heavy but so encour
aging is the rooting that comes from
the optimistic and pocket-filled side
lines, that victory generally results
for Oakland.
Carloads Are Shifts.
There have been times when wagons,
filled with turkeys, have lined up clear
through the streets of the town to un
load at the warehouses. A man. for
instance, got his wagon In line at 10
o'clock In the morning and his time to
unload didn't come till 1 o'clock in the
afternoon. Two big warehouses are
generally filled. Like the time when
Porsena of Cluslum was on the march
to Rome, "the wagons pour In amain
from many a busy market-place, from
many a fruitful plain." Sometimes, too,
the wagons cluck and groan under the
burden of their costly freight, u the
Roman wagons did. The trains bring
boxes of turkeys in from the stations
along the way. for Oakland buyers pur
chase most of the turkeys of the whole
county and from the smaller places, as
Wilbur and Dillard. they are brought to
Oakland and reshtpped from there.
On Saturday two or three big express
cars loaded to the roof with turkeys
pull out of Oakland. Perhaps in one
of the cars Is your Thanksgiving din
ner. OUTING REUNITES HOME
(Continued From Firt Pate.)
Martin had stalked him he bad not
been able to get a hearing.
I noticed, and so did others, that even
though Frank played golf with Kitty and
stopped for tea at the club and dangled
after her generally It did not advance
his chances. A married man following
a frivolous woman was not the timber
this sturdy old statesman was inter
ested in.
Down in my heart I was glad when I
saw Mr. Frank losing some of his
chipper self-confidence and getting
discouraged. Launching his waste
land bill was the great coup for which
he had been working years, but either
from indifference or prejudice old Sen
ator Strong was not to be reached and
the time was very short.
Added to this disappointment the
gossip that linked his name with Kit
ty's was being whispered everywhere,
and being a man. he was too dense to
see that Kitty was shrewd enough to
realize that, his end once gained, she
might not be so attractive to him. so It
wis Kitty Mason herself who was at
the bottom of the Senator's Indifference
to the waste-land bill.
It was probably only to stop this
growing scandal, not a sudden longing
the
jer-
to give his wife a good time, that
Frank took It Into his head to take
Grace down to Sea Bright for a week
end. I had Just come off a long raso.
so went gladly to stay with the babies
and hustle tirace off. We had no time
for shopping so she had to (to with the
few things she had. but as this was
the first outing she had had since V r
marriage the rest from the dally grind
meant too much to her to cavil on
the question of clothes.
Wife Keels Oat of IMare.
When Grace came home she told m
part of her experience, but the real
pith of the story reached me through
other sources. The Masons were at
Sea Bright, too. of course, and a lot
of other people whom Grace had never
met, so this little homebody was a
fish out of water among her husband's
smart friends. She did not know the
new dances, had even forgotten the old
ones, so naturally she was left out.
Frank, aftor a perfunctory show of
Interest at first, soon got so taken up
with tho young girls and Kitty he did
not miss his wife when she wandered
off by herself out Into the stillness of
the night.
Grace also told me about the crusty
old gentleman who came in on the late
train and sent everybody flying in op
posite directions. Loiter, when the old
man had slipped away from his party,
he discovered Grace's quiet little nook.
hen he saw he dodged as if to
make his escape, but, seeing she made
no effort to speak to him. lie dropped
Into a seat where he could watch the
moon on the water, and it was not long
before he was snoring lustily. With
her motherly Instinct Grace slipped
over and gently laid her long, soft
cloak over him. This roused the man
and he protested he had not been sleep
ing.
"But it is good for you: go right on."
she said In her quiet tones; "you look
tired." The old man looked up grate
fully. "By Gad. I am tired to death."
he admitted.
Conversation Drifts to Hill.
Here was a woman who did not want
to talk and was willing to let him be
quiet, who did not try to be witty or
tell him a funny story. Consequently.
feeling there was no need at all to
keep up a conversation, they fell to
talking. The man made some allusion
to the hot political pot. The woman
said apologetically she did not know
anything about politics. Whereupon
the old man said "Thank God." and an
other long silence fell between them.
This woman's quiet. sympathetic
voice had a restful effect: she did not
try to get his vote for some special
end. her thoughts were at home, and
she was wondering if Frankie had had
his bath, so she listened quietly, say
ing little.
The moon played low on the water
and the tide ebbed out as the evening
waned. Something suggested the waste
lands caused by the tidewater, and
Grace, warmed to interest, talked on
about the one subject she had heard
early and late. She did not try to make
her listener agree with her; he seemed
interested, so she talked on. At first
It was more to hear the crooning ca
dence of her voice he encouraged her to
talk. It was the old-fashioned voice
that had echoes In it of cradle-songs
and bedtime stories, its "carrying
qualities" had never been developed for
public speaking.
Knd Achieved at l-at.
Out on the pier two figures drew
very close to each other and also
watched the moon. When the night
grew cold they turned and walked
slowly back to the hotel, where, after
telling Kitty good-night. Frank went
in search of his neglected wife. Grace
and her new-found friend had also
sought the protection of the house, so
when Frank Martin re-entered the ball
room he found the little groups of twos
and fours suddenly merged into a circle
around the wily Senator. Jokes and
repartee and light laughter reached
him from the crowding circle where
the old man was holding a glass while
someone was proposing a toast to him.
Martin hastily Joined the circle and
tried to get witnln range, but t.ie older,
better acquainted members of the party
elbowed him back. At last Just as he
was about to accost him the old man's
good nature suddenly forsook him, and
with tha excuse he was tired turned
curtly on his heel to retire. Before
leaving the room, however, he stopped
and looked around as if seeking some
one. Frank, recognizing Ills wife across
t ie room, reached her Just about the
time the old Senator did. "May I in
troduce my husband to you." Grace
said, not knowing the little man's
name. The Senator said. I am very
glad to know you. sir. glad to know
the lucky husband of such a delightful
little woman. She has given me a quiet,
restful evening and has told me all
about a certain wildcat land bill 1
never had any use for until I got it
all in Its entirety. Lucky man. lucky
man, yes. come and see me eome time,
any time, and. say, bring your wife up
to call on my family, will you?"
FISH KNOCKS MAN DOWN
Jump for Liberty Lands It in Face.
Leaving; Marks.
SALIXA. Kan.. Nov. 21. E. A. Hill
man, of Wakeeney. has a sore face,
caused by a tussle with a large catfish
which he attempted to catch with his
hands while swimming.
The fish was seen under a log at the
edge of the creek, apparently asleep.
Hlllman slipped his hands along the
side of the fish and had almost closed
his Angers through the gills when his
flshshlp came to life and Jumped for
liberty.
It struck Ilillman such a blow in the
face that he was thrown off his bal
ance and his face badly lacerated, and
then the fish escaped.
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