The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 5, 1902, Page 12

women are taking to the whip. 't exactly a fad. They are erical, that -wedge They are just quietly, and in order climbing getting ready to, stay makes a fad. serenely, dece San Francisco women al. They were to be seen he early morning and late began to look as if the s had come in the ago in the East. oved to have been but ciety bellwethers was the everlssting, hair- temper-tw! in the park in t at because there was no park to drive I 1 other things. s and carts and run- grew rickety for trode away to courts. And | ng o to polo other country e coachman take women tennis a-dr ark did the sprouting Menlo Park to- 2y the women ywhere else In Califor- much as whiz through t catching sight rched horse four- Tt; the to be full of | -vested girls, evidently two-wheel cart, or a two-horse or a trap of some ts alw sure wheel surs other white out for And the the driver sits thexe,] way THE whether it be gIg Or Carry-al, ana the way the lines slant taut and stiff from her hand to the horse’s mouth, and the way the horse prances with the spirit that's in him, all go to show that the Menlo girls have served their apprenticeship as whips. This year, however, the other country places around San Francisco have bobbed up as rivals'to Menlo. Gradually, almost imperceptibly, the driving fashion has revived until there is scarcely a woman among the fashionables who can’t drive from one to four horses. You meet them at every turn. And how smart they look. They have evidently been initiated into the mysteries of good form, that intangi- ble something that has to do with every- thing from the placing of an elbow and the angle of a whip to the way a horse wears his ears. This means good-by—and it's a cheer- ful good-by—to the woman who sits all over the front seat, gathers up the lines in both hands, smacks the horse loudly on the back, clucks vigorously, shouts “Get up,” and goes clattering down the street at a lazy, half-hearted jog—sans Btyle, sane spirit, sans speed. No self-respecting horse likes to be T is a good plan when one has a val- uable negative, or one that it is ex- tremely difficult to duplicate, to make from it, before putting it into general use or packing it away, a contact transparency, From such a transparency new negatives may be made at any time if the original becomes broken or damaged, and the possession of such a dupliéate will often be found of great advantage. The making of such u sparency Is extremely simple and v be done in the following manner: irst select a printing frame of the same e as the negative to be reproduced and to tnis frame place the negative with film side up, exactly as if a silver print were to be made. Instead, however, of using silver paper for the transparency place upon the negative, film side down, a dry plate of slow speed, covering it with a printing pad, replace the back of the frame and clamp it in position as if for | ordinary printing. This, of course, must be done in the dark room by aid of the ruby light. The frame containing nega- PHOTOGRAPHIC POINTERS FOR AMATEURS. tive and plate may then be covered with the focusing cloth folded in sevéral thick- nesses and taken from the dark room into an adjoining room, the focusing eloth quickly removed and the plate exposed to the action of an ordinary gas burner for a period of from thirty seconds to two min- utes, holding the frame at a distance of ten feet from the burner. After exposure, quickly re-cover the frame, remove the plate and develop in just the same way as for a negative, carefully washing and fixing after development. The length of exposure will depend wholly upon the density of the negative, the strength of the light and the distance of the frame from the light during print- ing, all of which must be first ascertained by trial plate or strips. The farther away from the gas that the printing frame is beld during exposure, the softer will be the positive, while the nearer it is to the frame the harder will be the contrasts. The making of transparencies is ex- tremely interesting, and provides a capi- tal opportunity for a long evening’s work with a collection of one's best negatives. A very rich and effective method of mounting prints, particularly those of a small size, is to be found in indentirg or countersinking a plate mark somewhat larger than the print into the surface of the mount itself. This may be done in the following manner: First secure three pleces of zinc or heavy block tin, two of which should be of the same size as the mount to be treated and the third of the exact size and shape that the plate,mark is desired to be when finished. The edges &nd corners of this third plate should be carefully rounded off so that no cutting edges are left and the family wringing machine clamped in position for use. Next select paper or card mount which is Intended to be treated and pass it sev- eral times through the wringer between three of four sheets of blotting paper pushed along the road like a wheelbar- row, and the horses hereabout are not the last to show their appreciation of the fact that women have taken up seriously the gentle art of driving. The country has been the place during ihe summer to see the women whips on informal parade; but with the first snap of autumn the park is beginning to have its share from among the stay-in-towns. One of the smartest traps seen about Furlingame s that of Mrs. Gus Taylor, who belonged to the Menlo Park set be- fcre she joined the Blingumites. Mrs. Taylor didn’t win the cup in the wemen's class at the Burlingame horse which have been thoroughly wet. After the mount is evenly damped in this way place it between the two larger sheets of metal, with the smaller plece on top of e card and in the exact position on the mount where the plate mark is desired, and holding them firmly so that the small plece of metal does not slide out of its po- sition, run them through the wringer backward and forward three or four times. The result will be a very effective coun- tersunk plate mark, In which the print will show to great advantage It sometimes happens that a choice neg- ative becomes cracked or broken. Such 2 negative may be reclaimed if the break has only extended through the glass and not through the film itself. The best method of procedure is to soak the cracked negative in a 10 per cent solution of chloride of soda, to which has been added cne drachm of sulpsuric acld to the ounce. This operation must be carried sbhow; but the men In horsey togs that £tood around the green plat in the middle of the tanbark ring sald she droVe in the best form of any of the womeg. They didn’t say it in whispers, either. They said it right out loud. The only trouble was, they didn’t happen to be the judges. The judges decided in favor of Mrs. T.aurance Scott, who drives a spanking turnout, and drove between the posts and around obstacles without a knock-down. Mrs. Henry T. Scott is also frequently seen upon the roads about Burlingame. She usually drives a single horse in a light runabout, but handles a team equal- ly well. e —— on in a tray of some material other than glass or porcelain. .Shortly after Immer- sfon In this solution the edge of the film will commence to frill and in a few mo- | ments the entire film will leave the glass. Should it stick in any part it may be en. couraged by the use of a fine camel’s hair trush or feather. As soon as the film is free from the glass, separate carefully rlide under it a clean plece of glass agy. using this as a base, lift it from the sopu. tion and jmmerse it in clean water, where 1t should remain until well washed. place under it a piece of clean glass fomewhat larger than the original megs tive, which has first been coated wits o thin solution of clear gelatire, or a dry Tlate thoroughly fixed without having been exposed, and lift it from the water taking care that the film lies smoothly upon the glass and does not form in wrinkles or ridges. It should then be stood in a negative rack till dry, when it will be found to be as good as new. Ca, must be exercited not to.allow the film 70 turn over in either of the baths, as the result would be to re fingg el o everse it on the glass Next The Princess Ponlatowsk! s another om the list of women whips at Burlingame,. but never drives more than one horse. Then, of course, there are Mrs. Walter Hobart and Mrs. E. D. Beylard, who have always had first place among San Fran- cigco horsewomen. Men say that neither a four-in-hand nor tandem Is the right hitch for a woman. But you will never believe it once you have seen either of these women crack a whip about the leaders’ ears from the box of a coach or the tilted seat of a tandem cart. This summer, however, neither has been driving. Mrs. Hobart has been tak- — . Why bother about putting your name down on the walt- ing list at the libraries for a popular book of fletion when you can get the same novel complete In two issues of The Sunday Call?! Why do you geo to a book store and pay a dol- lar and a half for a book that is published in two, or at most three, issues of the Sunday Call. You must read a news- paper—The Sunday Call gives you all the news of the day; it gives you all the up-to-date features of any magasine: it @ives you a pepular novel. 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