The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 7, 1902, Page 7

When to eut it, how to keep it light and bright and the manner in which to make it grow thick and an orna- ment to a little girl’s head. By Marion Martineau. s posed by the author.) is as as impor- to the six finds her t end with or havi@ en- ay periences comes warm. Keeping the Head Clean. tt d not have dan- if this appears irritation of in that be no more comb to the heavier than an irrita- s hair is_a vexed n. The old our foremothe ethod, an »f to-day an will grace the e being treated by child’'s i th never been “‘One of thelr arguments is that the hair THE SUNDAY CALL. VEN I ATII G TIE TR FETER. IIIE LIFrLy Grmr, ZAS BEEIS EXERCLSII m the jured by the , the root is w fashion of clipping the moon in old-fashioned e ridiculed by the: the h: th: r so broken s to be If the littie girl has ha r with broken ends, she can go to the hair dresser and the ends cut off, an inch or so being removed. Or the operation can be per- formed at home. But there must not be a pa 1 put upon the head nor t it be spattered with bay rum. T s be clipped upon a towel and the ends well brusied afterward. T ‘the little girl complains of headach and of the heat of her hair, she can ha ut off. But the practice of cutting the t not be kept up, if it is ever i » grow long, and the little next the ear, may compiain of it. If the hair be tied loosely with ons and the neck is cooled by the way the hair is lifted from it, there will be no complaint of the heat of the hair, for a child’'s hair is light and is not of the same heating quality as hair of older growth Ventilating the Scalp. To ventilate the hair, take the strands s and lift them, giving them Lift the hair, lock by is manner until the air reaches every inch of the scalp. Go over the whoie head, lifting and shaking and let- ting the into the very roots. The massaging of the scalp is a good thing if a little ofl be used. Castor is_the best of all ofls, but it is apt to be e, and for this reason olive oil or Imond ofl can be substituted. The scalp is taken inch rubbed into the roo If the hair shows a tendency to be thin by inch and the ofl is t on top a very gentle pounding of the scalp will sometimes stimulate the roots. rt hair, lift the hands so that the sackk of the hand comes down upon the scaip 1, ever so gently, go over the vu,r.i; head wherever the hair seems to be thin If the little girl’'s hair is too straight for beauty it can be waved, but before doing it up it should be very lightly mois- tened with lukewarm water. Do not wet the roots and let the hair be very slight- ly dampened. Do not really wet it, but moisten the palms of the hands and rub them over the hair. This will make a sufficient moisture to give the wave. EASY LESSON IN WHIST BY MRS. E P. SCHELL. DERPLAY, or * ymet e ime acticed only t es the keenest tion and the most ac- of the situation to practice it whist percer curate sense more unr akably shows the faculty of occasion for an un- purpose of underplay rick more that could ordinary conventional s holding up the win- to take the trick or lead, and it may be high order than or made by any player at the table. Being based upon the unusual character of the band or the fall of the cards, no rules can be formulated to meet this exigency. The student may best gain an idea of underplay by examples. For instance: Trumps are led by the player to your left, the third player wins with the ace and returns the suit through your hand. If you are left with king and one or more small ones you should play a small one, vnless wishing to stop the lead of trumps. The original trump leader, not knowing but that the king is in your partner's hand, will probably finesse, and your partner thus has the chance of making the third best trump. even though un- guarded. L T e DT P XX 7O THE! SCALP: O [TATR LICrHTLy Tovcarl TXE c.orrrs Again, one of the opponents has led out trumps and has remaining in his hand one or two long trumps; upon partmer’s discard he now leads the latter's declared suit, in which you hold the master card; if you will retain this commanding card until the adversary with a long trump has led himself out of the suit you make the bringing In of that suit an impossi- bility unless its holder is fortunate enough to have a card re-entry in another suit. 5 The difference between finesse proper and underplay third hand is usually this: — You finesse with the hope that your finesze will win the trick; you underplay knowing that the trick will go to fourth hand—the object being to place the lead. Suppose the partner, late in hand, leads you the six of trumps, second hand puts on the seven; you hold king, § and the 3, with one trick to make, to save or win the game you play the 8 and your king must give you the needed trick, as you are now the last player. Fourth hand Is, perhaps, in the best po- sition to hold up or underplay. For exam- ple—Trick 1: A leads the king, C plays AR Iry s b 24 72__?00 77 [=) TV QR A TE _portunities do not come often and to be b5 o S + the 5, B the 3 and D the 2; A shows (to D) | but queen and two others by the play and | if he goes on with the suit, giving B the ace, D makes two tricks in the suit, for by the underplay he preserves to himself the perfect terrace. The student must not forget that he must do the closest figuring, studying every phase of the situation before at- tempting to gain by this strategy, as it is dangerous business, and if you do not ex- ercise the utmost precaution you will lose more tricks than you will gain. The op- successful must be practiced with the ut- most care. A holding up hand: D.=8, 5 | Trump—Two of hearts, East to lead. *Qd 5d 3d *9d &d 2d "o th i gh 2s Jh 7c 2¢ Kh 104 3c 6s 8. *Ad Ja de 9s 9. *7d 9e 8c 10s 10. Qs Ks *As Ac 1L 78 b *Js Je o+ *| 12. 5o s is Qe 18. & ¢ 3 Ke North and SBouth 7; East and West, 6. Trick 1—North refuses to take the queen. Trick 2—Fast shows the king and the 10 only. West can read that North is holding up and that he is probably strong in trumps, but he is forced to complete the call. Trick 3—North still refuses to take the trick. West does not echo, as he can read North’s play. Trick 4—West played without due con- sideration here; he should have put the jack of trumps and forced North to take the lead. Trick 5—East Is also at fault here. He could read that if North was not holding up he could have no more trumps. The four honors are yet in play. West cannot have all four honors, and surely he would have echoed and South would have certainly covered the 9, holding any two of the honors and four in suit. Trick 10—North leads South a strength- ening spade. East's cover is good; if he passes he loses two tricks. East having noted that West had discarded two | spades, the 9 and 10, sees that by pulling | ur the king he must make his 8 of spades. Trick 13—West makes his king of clubs and North and South score the odd card and game. Remarks—Such unusual finesse as North practiced (tricks 1 and 4) is rarely sound. The temptation to underplay was great. This situation was difficult; if he took the queen (trick 1) he had nothing to lead to apparent advantage. But here, as in the vast majority of cases, ordinary play. would have resulted in more tricks, and the safest play for North was to win the quwen of diamonds and lead the queen of spades. North's persistent holding up was successful only because the oppo- nents permitted it to become so, for West (at trick 4) and East (at trick 5) could have defeated North's game as pointed | out in the notes. | East's play of the king of spades (trick | 10) illustrates that second hand is often directed to the correct play by the previ-' ous discards. ‘Washing Blue for the Hair. Gray hair is an ordeal to the average | woman under the most favorable circum- | stances and she probably finds in it little | that is to be palliated. On the other hand most women would probably not mind it so much if they were certain that all their | hair weuld become white immediately | and not remain for several years in the yellowish, mixed stage that comes to all | women who have not black hair, It is the | problem of getting their hair white all at | once that troubles most women. Some of the Paris hairdressers are said to be able to make the hair gquite white when it cnce begins to turn. The process is expensive under any circumstances. A remedy has been found which has | been successful in the case of most of the | women who have tried it. It is not ex- | pensive, for the process consists in giving the hair a bath of washing blue. | ‘The blue must not be too strong, but | must be liberally mixed with water. It one bath does not have the effect of tak- ing all the yellow out of the hair, the operation should be repeated. In a day or two after the bath of blue has been given the yellow will begin to fade from the hair and in a short time it | will be quite white. —_————— Sleep-Walkers Are Blonde. “Ten per cent of the world's popula- tion is more or less somnambulists,” said | a physician, “and every one, at one time ‘or another, has done a little sleep- walking. I remember myself, when a lad, got up, dressed, took my books and ! went to school on a summer night, my | father following close behind to see that | 1 should come to no harm. i “Blonde persons are more apt to be | somnambulists ‘than dark - folk, and in | cold climates there is more somnambu- | lism than in warm ‘ones. In certain | Greenland villages I have been told.the | hut doors are locked from without by a | watchman in order that those within may not come forth in their sléep and maybe freeze to death. But in Egvpt such llke hot lands such precau- tion is not necessiry.”"—Philadelphia Record. e Pt I i e +* J PHOTOGRAPHIC POINTERS FOR AMATEURS e LITTLE experience in the printing and toning of photographio prints will teach the amateur that it Is always wise to carry on the ope- ration with a number of different negatives, rather than one or two at a time at more frequent intervals. It is better, where such an arrangemeént Is possible, to save the negatives to be printed until quite a collection has been accumulated and then, choosing some bright day, do all the printing that is required, being careful to keep the un- toned prints in a light-tight box untll, say, the following day, when they should be toned. The printing should always be done In the shade, unless the negative is of un- usual density, and thin negatives should always be covered with tissue paper or ground glass, stretched or lald over the face of the printing frame. Continue the printing until a lttle 8arker than the finished print is desired, as the subse- quent operation of toning will reduce the color or depth of the print quite con- siderably. When the prints are ready for toning and the toning bath repared ac- cording to the directions Wlt% all papers sold to-day, they should be transferred from the containing box and thoroughly washed, face down, In rainwater if pos- sible, or at all events In water that does not contain mineral impurities.. This washing should be continued -from fif- teen to twenty minutes, until the creamy white color has disappeared from the water, and the prints should be frequent- Jy separated and handled one by one dur- ing washing. Failure to give this matter due atten- tion is often the cause of weak and faulty prints, and unless this detall has proper care no amount_ of subsequent la- bor will make up for &. After this pre- liminary washing they are ready for ton- ing in accordance with the directions sup- plied. After being placed in the toning bath, the prints must also be kept con- stantly moving so that no two or more will be allowed to stick together for any length of time, as this will invariably cause uneven toning and spotty prints. This is a matter which is almost always included in the printed instructions, but | which, for some reason or other, is very frequently neglected by the Iimpatient amateur, who later on learns to his sor- row that haste makes waste. It sometimes happens that trial plates are to_be developed away from home, where the conveniences of graduates and scales are missing, and a very convenient makeshift which is easily applied with the common form of developers mixed either in a powder or in compressed tab- lets will be found in the common eight- ounce bottle obtainable at any druggist's or easily carried for the purpose. If onme’s wits are kept in order, many expedients will be thought out to il the place of what is usually supposed to be the necessary equipment of the dark room or laboratory, and this is only one. A good deal of trouble s likely to be experienced at this time of year in the photographing of trees and heavy masses of foliage against a blue summer sky. For work of this kind a backed op non- halation plate should always be used, if possible, and even with this precaution it is hardly possible to avoid all traces of halation below a clear sky line and in the open spaces between the leaves. This ha- lation may be greatly reduced, however, by the application of a restralner made up of a 10 per cent solution of bromide of potassium put upon the negative with a fine brush during development in all places where symptoms of halation ap- pear. If, however, the negative had been developed before the halation was mno- ticed it may later be reduced by the local application of the well-known Farmer re- ducer, which consists of a 10 per cent so- lution of potassium ferricyanide. This so- lution must be kept in the dark when not in use, and for local application a few drops should be added to one ounce of the regular hypo bath and applied with a brush to the very dense portions of the negative, which should first have been thoroughly washed. As its action is very energetic, it should be applied only to tho parts needing reduction, and a plentiful supply of fresh water should be kept on hand by which to stop its action at any desired point. Thorough washing must. of course, follow any operation of this kind. One of the most dangerous pitfalls into which the beginner may fall Is the habit of frequently changing his formula or his plate because some one else has with oth- ers obtained results which suit hiny better than his own. As has been stated before ir. this column, changing from one make of plate or from one formula to another leaves the worker without any adequate knowledze of the good points of either, and he camnot d> better than to master otie before ‘undertaking to experiment with another. It must also be remem- bered that with iny gfven formula and plate a wide latitud= is possible in the re- sults obtainable by giving longer or short- er exposures or .onger or shorter devel- opment. 1f, therefore, under given conditions hard negatives are obtained where soft ones are wanted the exposure must be increased or the time of development les- sened, and vice versa. Very few know the tremendous differences that may be obtained under conditions like these.