THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON.
Frame-Maker (who comes to measure Stodge’s academy pictures). Now, I think it’s a pity you don’t let me have some o’ these for my winder, since you have no idea of the amount of rubbish I can get rid of at times.
There has been much discussion as to the assistance that photography might render judicial authorities in enabling the arrest of criminals.
Yet this is what recently occurred in France. Six photographs in different poses of the same criminal who had escaped from prison were sent out to all the communes of France. From the mayor of one of these districts the following letter was received:
“Five of the criminals whose photographs you sent have already been arrested; we are on the track of the sixth.”
AS SCUMMLES’S PICTURES ARE INVARIABLY “SKYED” AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY, HE HAS GIVEN UP HIGH FINISH, AND ADAPTS HIS STYLE TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES!