The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 10, 1902, Page 10

THE SUN DAY CALL. These Rrg the Real Peper Hats. | anything $o to do before is to provide you can have The actual , but hat ed you 2if and repe paper for the make the frame big, but remem- hese sheets three strips about half together at strips of led, must ed and braided as tightly as pos- he braid firmness hat is loosely trip must be neatly pleced you have used the th of the twenty-five sheets, 1 part of the process e to show your genu- the hardest ¥ the work, vou are a trained milliner you probably have many failures before ucceed. Beginning with the middie of the crown you sew round and round. An exact meas- ure of the b that fits your head should be taken. This will determine the point it which you begin to form the sides of e crown Plaques are easily made because there is no erown to bother with, and they can be bent to all kinds of charming angles and tilts. you examione i that not a You are surprised when these wonderful } ngle wire appe: ywhere in them. They can be bent and sewed in Lhe prop- er shapes without any help of wires. Neither do they flop in the inane way that soft straws do when left to their own de- vices The trimming of these shapes lends it- self to all kinds of Ingenious devices. Here is where you can give your fancy art leeway. You must be orig- n the trimming. You can afford to ck to conventional designs in the me, but you must think up new arts wiles for the little paper choux and flounces and flowers. The hats in the pictures were made and il @ Ehic Doints For Rmatelrs. which at this particuldr y delightful pos- found in. the d gardens so towns and vil- of such as old gardens will he photograph it- which the long winter and negatives, rn slides, a und in viewing vleasure will be £ e screen. eatment is important in standing out will make a ure than an at- the garden on the of the camera 1s n all work of this nature in most cases to place it ely near the ground. Each sub- have its own special composi- however, and too much care can- o simplicity of subject and its nt on the ground glass. happens that the operator desires f or herself in the land- on or group and this may difficulty where the camera Is provided with a shutter re- lease. The best method is to attach to the shutter release a plece of thread, rea- sonably strong, which should be carried toward the base of the tripod and held in position under & pin inserted in one of the legs. The other end of the string is held by the operator, who, after taking position, may release the shutter by a slight pull of the thread, which, running under the pin, gives the desired downward motion to the shutter release without dis- turbing the camera. Care must be exer- ised, however, that the shutter is not sprung until all is ready for the exposure, An interesting evidence of the tremend- ous growth in amateur photography and the importance which it has attained is to found in the large number of prize petitions offered by many manu- rers of photographic goods through- se competitions pre- es for the amateur of taste and expe e to capture c prizes of no incon ble amount, eral of them offering as much as $100 in a single award. Competitive exhibitibns of this kind are extremely ful in the edu- cation of the amateur and the man who ses a prize at first should not despair. v opportuni It is important during the warm weath- er that toning solutions used in the ton- ing of printing out papers be kept at a uniformly low temperature. Attention to this will save many prints which would otherwise tone out with yellowish whites or faulty and unsatisfactory contrasts. Bottles containing the toning solution may, to advantage, be kept in a pan or tray of ice water while in use. Apropos of the above item, ‘attention may also be called to the great impor- tance of thoroughly fixing the prints after toning and before washing. Instructions furnished with the several papers on the market should be carefully followed, and if any latitude is given at all it should be on the side of overfixing and over- washing rather than otherwise. If a print is to be permanent it must be left in the hypo bath long enough to liberate every molecule of free silver salt, and unless this is done the presence of no matter how small a quantity of free silver in the paper will soomer or later lead to the staining and discoloring of the print. Many an amateur is familiar with the experience of spending a large amount of time in printing, toning, fixing and wash- ing a particularly cholce lot of prints only to find that after a few weeks they are worthless. Fallures of this kind are due, not to the quality of the paper or chemicals used, but invariably to insuffi- cient care in the manipulation. The ground glass screen of an ordinary camera may be greatly improved and its transparency increased by applying to its ground surface a drop or two of sweet ofl or vaseline and carefully rubbing it with the fingér over its entire surface. It should then be thoroughly rubbed off with a dry cloth, when it will be found to reflect the image with much greater distinctness and detail than before, The printing quality of a very thin neg- atlve may often be improved by placing over it, in the printing frame, a sheet of ground glass through which to paes the light. Another device that is frequently adapted to advantage consists in pasts ing a sheet of tissue paper over the glass side of the negative. In landscape sub- Jjects and pictures with broad treatment’ rather than minute detail, the thin parts of the negative may be corrected by working over them on the paper with a soft pencil, or stump, thus holding back the printing of any desired portion. If it should happen that parts are too dense r’( i 7k (2 the paper may be treated with a drop of oil .or vaseline on these parts. This will render it transparent and will not affect its printing quality at all. - trimmed by Miss Anna Mohr, Oakland, and she carries out her trimmings In bows and ruches. Half a roll of French crepe paper is enough for the trimming of one hat. The whole roll costs only 10 cents—you use halt of it—there yau are. The cost of your 30-cent hat Is covered. The big white hat Is a plcture. All white, every bit of it, it is as dainty and fresh as the summier girl herself. Great choux of white crepe paper surround the crown, and a cluster of dainty paper roses, all white, are tucked under the brim at the back. The pink hat is a deep shade of rose, and the trimming is the same. One of a light brownish paper Imitates straw in its.color, and could not be told from straw at a little distance. The mixed bralds are perhaps the most charming of all. One of turquoise biue and white is made with one strand of blue and two of white, which gives just the right proportion of color. The choux ar@of both blue and white. The hat is worn with a gown of the same color com- bination. - These mixed bralds offer all sorts of opportunities. for smart contrasts. Black and white has not proved a success on account of the. poor shade of black that tissue paper comes in. If the manufac- turers can achieve a black that is a bright, strong dye there ought to be a market for it, as black and white is the feature of the year. A bewitching broad-brimmed flop is braided of pink and yellow. The person who tries to make pink and yellow move in the same set takes risks, but the au- thor of this succeeded in getting a re- @ i sult that was worth taking r The pink and yellow shade-of salmon colo with the Gold of O r the brim. It is a fad i use ordinary artifici —to decorate th pretty but the Pale lemon charming and make a ool combination that can be trimmed with a butter¢up wreath in either cloth or paper flowers. Paper sweet peas are easily made, and they are pretty on a white hat. Have the peas mixed In color, just as the real bunch is when you gather it In the gar- den. Al} the delleate pinks and lav: and blues will ‘harmonize beautiful A green hat.loaded with green leaves e the coolest thing you can devise. Over a blorde head it. is Irresiatible. For the black-haired girl the white hat, or the yellow one or the pink and white will be charming. A pink and white hat is smartly trimmed In loops of the bralded paper, put on just as straw loops are used. The ‘red and pink papers are always the most nearly perfect In coloring, and are, therefore, the best to choose when they are becoming., But not every one can wear pink. Turquoise blue is an- other good color, and the straw browns are excellent. There is bound to be a color for you if you will hunt for it. And always remember one thing—keep the paper hat simple, It does not take kindly to lace and jeweled buckles and masses of silk ribbon. It is fetching and breezy and delight- ful, but never sophisticated. Odd Finds fbolt §an Frangisco RBat. BY A. MEGAHAN, Principal of the Peralta Oakland; California. PROPOS of the investigations of the curfous shell mounds along the San Francisco Bay shores by pro- rs of the State University, it m; be mentioned that the entire bay region, and Alameda County especially, is an exceedingly rich field for exploration, mot only for the archaeolo- gist. but also in the line of geological and paleontological research. Schoel, On the eastern side of the Mission Peak range fossils are frequently found also. High up on the ridge east of Lydon's, imbedded in the rock stratum, lie the re- mains of a huge reptile, probably a sau- rian—one of the great marine reptiles whose slimy presence’ made the Meso- zole age grewsome when the Mount Diablo foothills wera ~still the marshy shores of a great lake or sea. On the summit of this range was se- cured a petrified shark's tooth, and down in the rugged canyon, projecting from the bank of Alameda Creek, lies a re- e o »% iy » Returning from a recent trip to the southern part of Alameda County, the writer brought with him a number of mortars, pestles, obsidian arrowheads, discoidal stones and other objects of in- terest to the archaeologist. He also- brought a well preserved part of an enormous tusk of a mastodon, which was unearthed from a gravelly de- posit at the foot of Mission Peak. The piece is a foot and a half long, fif- teen inches in circumference, and is from the tapering end of the tusk, indicating the gigantic size of the prehistoric crea- ture that carried it as a weapon of of- fense and defense. A remarkable thing is its state of preservation, showing ‘the presence of these extinct mammals on our bay shores at a comparatively recent period of the quarternary age. The ivory structure is finely marked, the laminated surface separating under the influence of the countless changes of seasons that have rolled by since the proud owner trumpeted deflance to his ri- vals and enemies in the anclent jungles. In all probability the central portion of this fragment is still fairly good ivory. This is not the first time that mastodon remains have been found in this vicinity, Bones of this animal have been uncovered in numerous excavations. Some years ago Dr. Lorenzo Yates, the noted Santa Barbara sclentist, secured parts of a mastodon skeleton in the Mis- sion Creek Canyon, and, later, the writer dug up in the same canyon an enormous femoral bone, one end of it curiously pet- rified—doubtless part of the same skeleton unearthed by the doctor. Near by was pleked up a fine specimen of the lepidodendron, These trees flour- ished in the carboniferous age, and their fossils are unmistakable evidence of the presence of coal deposits. On the hillside there still remains the half-filled. entrance of a tunnel which was run for a short distance under the adjacent ridge many years ago, and a vein of coal was. found, but the project was abandoned before the extent of the deposit could be ascertained. markably fine specimen of a petrified tree, apparently of the cottonwood spe- cles. The winter torrents have washed away the shaly rock in which the trea was originally imbedded, and the trunk, is uncovered for a. distance of about twenty feet, and at the larger end is two feet and a half in diameter. The natural appearance of the tree is so well preserved that of the hundreds of fishermen who annually stroll through this picturesque canyon in pursuit of their favorite pastime, it is doubtful whether one has ever detected that this crumbling old trunk is' & fossil, and has a story of wondrous and perplexing interest to tell. The dark-coloted, compact heart, the ringed appearance of the woods the cellu- lar structure of the cambium layer, the fibrous bark and thg scaly lichen growths upen its outer surfdce are all retained in minute detail with marvelous exactness. Herein have been noted briefly only a few of the many interesting finds which even a superficial observer with no scien- tific pretensions whatever, came across in the course of his rambles about the south- ern arm of the bay, within sighg of our own State University and of Sén Fran- eisco. 5 If it is suggestive that the fleld is worthy and the time is ripe for a system- atic exploration of this resion by those whose scientific attainments qualify them for the important and interesting work, the object of these notes will have been achieved.