Editorial comment for this plate:

“THE MODEL’S PASTIME.”

WE take great pleasure in presenting our readers this week with the promised picture by Rudolph Eickemeyer, Jr., entitled the “Model’s Pastime.”

“The picture was made on a winter afternoon,” writes Mr. Eickemeyer. “I had been photographing the model posed in various attitudes, and was about to end the labors of the day on account of the sun’s refusal to come out from behind a mass of gray clouds. Suddenly the rays poured in through the window, along the floor and into the grate. The effect was striking, and in less time than it takes to tell, I had quickly focused the camera and exposed the plate. Much of the success of the photograph is, of course, due to the cat, which played no small part in the general make-up of the picture.”

We are sure our readers will be pleased with this successful figure picture made by an amateur in an ordinary interior.