The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 31, 1902, Page 14

THE SUNDAY CALL. !I :M N ) I Little Tots Who Are Being Taught to Mount, Hold Their Seat, Trot, Gallop, Leap Barriers, Waltz Their Horses and Other Maneuvers That Their Elders Learn During Riding Lessons. ICYCLING and automobiling have by r ear horse from riding and reas week hi one may s holding h riding iren car- lass, clas i with an at- ter t then et dentlys Fear gie with the erst- meets on Tuesdays of th youngsters ce. They teaches the and the letter children they are nue and anc i y re red little girls, Flor- ir own mounts— . by the way, horse and ively, named Pringe and inherit fathe; their Fear is unknown to her. med to horses from BY MRS. E. P. SCHELL. been for many vears an accept- whist belief t the only excuse ing the trump lead of ner is either not having any or sudden death, and failure to make the re of trump when the oppor was at hand has ever been regarde 7 unpardonable whist of- fense. The tter day whist strategy makes uent departures from the old . n y continuing a trump opened by the partner. d will often be from a split hand weak opening. For example, if the jnal h opens with the deuce of trumps, which shows that the best suit in bic hand is the trump and is the only suit, it would be unwise to re- turn it, but would do better to establish bis own suit before returning the trump Agaln, the first round may exhaust ad” then the advisability of he 1 or a four-c Yead the ry; her cradle, and could ride almost as soon as she could walk. It is a beautiful sight to see her riding around the ring on her Dora Winn, the little Chap- i the two Crockers form a themselves and are the most pro- class by ficlent of the juvenile riders in the cap- tain’s clas: Little Miss Chapman wears a brown t, which is very becoming, and she her horse like a veteran. Her father of the officers of the San Francisco Riding Club. Dora Winn, though only 10 years old, has a seat as firm as that of 4 practiced equestrienne of three times that number of years. She is a daughter of Captain Winn, U. S. A., and shows the army birth in her erect carriage. Dora and James Otis are the children of the senior member of the firm of Otis & McAllister. They both belong to the ju- venile class and are among the captain’s best pupils. Daisy Ryer is a dear little rider, courageous and graceful. Murcia Mintzner is an adept in many sports, but none does she love more fondly than rid- She is only 9 years old, bit is not in the least afraid of galloping at full speed around the ring. Elizabeth Woods is the daughter of Mrs. F..Woods of California street, and a most promising rider. Miss Meyer and Miss Liebes are dashing equestriennes. Miss Alice Tevis, who will have mil- lions when she reaches her majority, was ing. one of the captain’s pupils. She has been taught everything a child should lea everything that will make her health and happy. It was the wish of her father, the late Hugh Tevis, that she should learn to ride. She is at pres- ent in the East. Amorg the boys that love to show their k: of their daring and speed in the ring are Masters Fair- tox Wheeler, Davis, Sansome, Mintzner and Gaston. cwledge horses, = ERASY LESSONS IN ThH drawing one for two must be considered, and if the only opponent having trumps should be the last player upon thg con- it would seldom be right to subject the partner to the disadvantage of being overplayed by him. The same reasoning applies in the case of third hand taking the first round very cheaply. In such cases it would be better to try to put your partner in on a plain suit and allow him to come through or not, as he may think fit. Lieutenant Colonel B. Lowsley writes upon’ the subject the following: “If your partner has shown trump strength by calling or by leading trumps, and you, holding a plain suit singleton, together with weak trumps, it is a winning policy on first getting the lead to play out your singleton. Your partner would then give tinuation A 4 "% i Qi i In the class of older girls are Miss N. Lechtel, Miss Cooper, Miss Friedman, Miss Johnson, Miss Lawson, Miss Mc- Nutt, Miss Saltz, Miss Lilienthal, Miss Merrill and others. They are all very enthusiastic over the sport and think it I e e e i e S e S e e e e P 8 2 B R SR RS * you the opportunity for a ‘ruff’ or two and hold back his good cards of your short suit.” As a rule, when your partner starts out to lead trumps he does so with an object, and asks his partner to relingiish his game, promising in return that if his partner will give the required assistance he will make a good score. You will always find people in the whist world who are always advising some new method for getting in a “ruff”—even the establishing of the long suit of the hand from their point of view must give away to the “ruffing”” game. The student would be wise to follow the more conservative game and return partner's trump lead. The more advanced player can do as he likes and the consequences be on his own head. | z!l'l”“ bl v‘fn; g [ A A ) il | ? ,l} \\ i SOV il \l i twenty times the fun that bicycling is. This idea of having the children learn to ride is by no means a new one, but it has become such a popular fad among the parents of the exclusive set. In England all children of gentle birth know how to & FASCIN The following deal involves a swing of four tricks: NORTH. Bi—A, 2. H C.—A, Q, J, 4 D.—Q, J, 10, 6, 5, 2. WEST. EAST. 5.-Q,J, 10,8 6 8917 H-K 6,4 H—Q, 10,865 2 C—K, 8,5, 3. 10, 7, 6 D.— DK, S BOUTH. 74,8 Jack of clubs trump. East to ledd. TABLE No. 1 Tks. N, E. 8. W. 1. *As 9s 3s 63 2. 104 Kd 3d *Ad 3 2 75 *Ks 33 4 4o *6c s 4s 10s i = ride. They are taught how to mount as soon as their arms are strong enough to hold the reins, and it is rarely one finds an English child of the aristocratic caste who is ignorant of horsemanship. With the advent of English styles in the United Btates came this of having the children of the upper classes taught to ride. From New York and Boston the idea crept westward and it has attalned a strong hold in San Francisco. There is no sport more healthy, none that adds so much to the strength of character of the child. To master a horse is to master one's self. As Oscar R. Gleason, the “king of horse tamers,” said, L e + ATING GfiME o 5. 3h [ *Kh 6. *Jc 9d Bs Qs 7. *Ac Tc 2¢ 3c £ Qo 10¢ 9c *Kc 9. 2d 2h 7d *Js 10. 5d Qh *Ah Sh 11 6d bh *Jh 4h 2. Ja £h 4d *5c 18 Qd 10h 8d *8c East and West 7; North and South 6. Trick 3—The return of the spade is very bad play. South has no justification for forcing his partner and especlally not In the face of the fact that East is prac- tically marked as void and is thus given the opportunity to over-trump. ‘West has no dlamonds and has played for the establishment of the spades, in- dicating trump strength, and South’s best play is to force him with a dlamond. Trick 4—North should go in with the jack. Trick 7—North must have Inferred from “There is a big distinction between mas- tering a horse and cowing the animal by sheer. brutality.” Teach a child to ride end you give him the qualities of kind- ress and firmness. To ride makes the boy or girl fearless and self-reliant. In Mrs. Campbell Praed’'s novel, “Moloch,” the heroine was brought up by her father, who only knew how to teach her two things—to love a horse and hate a lie. Bhe grew up an honest, lovable and self- reliant girl. There is a deal taught In the juvenile riding class at the Paciflc- avenue Armory besides equestrianism. That includes all the elements of charac- ter building. cleflet % 3 South’s play in forcing him at trick 4 that the latter was strong In trumps, but even at that North's play of ace and queen of trumps is suicidal unless he can be sure of exhausting the adversaries in two rounds. He should plan the lead with a diamond even though both op- ponents are out of the suit. As a mat- ter of fact North ought to have a very fair 1dea of the distribution of the cards at this stage. A careful examination of the play up to this time will show the situation is rather pronounced than otherwise. TABLE NO. 2. Tks. N. E. 8. w. 1L 3h 6h 7h *Kh 2 2 Sh *Jh 9h 3. *Qa ¢ 8¢ 3c 4 104 Kd 4d *Ad 5. *As 73 28 108 6 Qd 8d 7d *5c el PRCTOGRARIC POINTERS FOR AMATRURS T will be of assistance to the beginner in the color values of his plo- ture as it will appear in the finished print if the view is examined through a plece of blue glass before the ex- posure is made. In this way the brilliant colors of the landscape, greens, yellows and the blue of the sky will be brought much more nearly into their true rela- tions to each other and the picturs thus seen will be very nearly the same in color tones as In the finished photograph. This may easily be done and the subject view- ed on the ground glass by fitting & small plece of blue glass into the cover or cap to be placed In front of the lens after the subject has been focused. It must, how- ever, be removed before the exposure is made. If the student will adopt this method in his early work he will soon be able to judge the pictorial effect of & landscape and to select a subject having value from its composition and arrangement when shorn of its color and reduced to the black and white of a photographioc print. The difference between such a picture and the view shown through the lens and focused upon the ground glass or finder is very great and if more care is exercised in the selection of landscape composi- tions, with this one point in mind, many disappointing exposures will be avolded. Failing a blue glass lens screen for this work, a plece of glass, unmounted, may be held befors the lens, but the jhoto- graphic student who aspires to success should avoid all makeshifts. A negative which from extreme over- development or the use of an old and discolored developing solution takes on a yellow color or stain, either in parts or over its whole surface, may be im- proved by soaking for half an hour ia the following solution: % oz i4 oz, Water ... 10 ozs. The negative should then be thoroughiy washed and dried in the ordinary way. This treatment is not always effectual, particularly if the negative has been al- Jowed to stand for a long time after the stain appears, but in ordinary cases it will be found very effective. It often happeds that a negative after development, fixing and drying, shows a number of small transparent spots or pinholes, as they are called, which in the print appear as black dots or points. These pinholes are usually caused by the presence of dust on the fllm before ex- posure and must be touched out or spotted on the megative before the prints are made. This is best done by placing the negative, film side up, on an Inclined plece of glass, supported at the sides, under which should be placed a plece of white paper to reflect the light through the negative and the holes very carefully touched with the point of a fine sable pencil or brush charged with Indla ink or the regular opaque, which is sold at all supply stores for this purpese. The mistake is often made of carrying on the brush too much of the color and in too liquid a condition to produce good results. The best work is always done with a very little color and not too moist. If when the brush is touched to the hol the color forms in a pool it will dry with a central spot still white and a n:’ of color around it: in this case the rem- edy will be worse than the disease. A very little practice, however, with a spoiled negative will enable a beginner to become proficlent in this very important part of negative making. If a plece of ground glass or ruby fab- ric Is placed in front of the dark room lantern it will be found that the light is much better suited to the operations of the dark room than if used without it. The effect of the ground glass or fabrie is to diffuse the light and do away with the central point or glare which is always apparent from the flame. The worker hould, however, settle upon the light wwhich suits him best and confine himseif to that after due trial and experiment, ‘#Voiding changes from one to the other. It is very important that the lights should be as nearly of the same quality and brilliancy as possible in all his work In order that the proper density of his nega- tives may be gauged. A very convenient way of arranging this ground glass or fabric is to fit it into one side of a wooden box, behind which the/lamp should be placed, taking care that the same distance. is always main- tained between the light and the glass or fabrie. There are some Instances, though not many, in_which it is well to provide a print with a_fine enameled surface ca- pable of withstanding any amount of washing. This may be done by squeegee- ing the print while wet immediately after its final washing onto the surface of a thin sheet of transparent celluloid. It is important that the celluloid be carefully cleaned before the print is squeeges t fis surtace, and that il air bubbles worked out with the squeegee. A print treated In this way presents a surface which s fully protected by the celluloid and Is ready to be framed without glass. 7. 54 93 *Ks Js & *Je ¢ 2c 3¢ 9. *Ac 3 s Ke 0. *Jd 2h 8d 4n i %d Sh 2 63 2. ez 10h 5s ss 1B, % Qh Ah Qs North and South 10. East and West 3. Trick 1—At table No. 2 East plays for the heart suit; the difference In the open- ing is not, however, responsible for the swing. Trick 3—South’s trump lead is hard to understand. With two suits in the dark and four hearts marked in East's hand he appears to be taking considerabls chances. It is fortunate, however, for if he leads the diamond 8 the opponents gain a trick. Trick 6~West would have done better to refuse the force here. North must continue with the diamonds, which East can trump, and which ever suit he con- tinues with must result in a gain for his side. As it is after West trumps the situation is hopeless. ‘ i