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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
There are Two Ways to 
Photograph Children 
One is to seat the subject in a 
chair, brace him from behind with 
a stiff steel rest, tell him to watch 
for the little bird that is coming 
out of the funny box, and snap 
him. The result is a strained, 
harsh picture which seems like 
another child — nothing of those 
little traits which friends see in 
him every day. 
The other way is to allow the 
child, in a measure, to assume 
his own pose and expression, to 
interest him in outside things or 
in some natural object about him. 
When he has become thorough- 
ly unconscious of the “‘impend- 
ing”’ photograph, he is snapped. 
Thus is taken a picture which 
Shows the child in his natura] 
moods and a picture which everyone feels is the subject at his best. This is 
my way. No subjects are more pleasing to me than children. 
E. G. MERRILL 
256% Essex Street, Salem 
Open until 5 
After July First the Studio 
will close at 12 on Wednesdays 
Telephone 165-13 
