On this day (July 6) in the year 1848, the following anecdote appeared in "Daily Republican" (Northfield, Mass; Vol.5, No.158): ------------------------------------------------------- Mrs. Partington has at last consented to let an artist take her Daguerreotype. When she sat down, and the instrument was pointed at her, she inquired anxiously, "If the blessed thing would make much noise when it went off?" She was assured it would not, and the next moment her likeness was shown her.--"There! I knew it!" said the old lady, "I know'd it was drawing my face--I felt it!--Why it's puckered all up, and makes me look a cemetery older!" ----------------------------------------------------------------- 07-06-96