The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 19, 1902, Page 15

HE Stanford museum has recently eoffin 11d made of hard limestone. This is been enriched by two valuable col- 4ot the Ptolemaic epoch. lections. One is a collection of Japanese bronzes, vases, {vories and embroid- eries; the other, a valuable assortment of Egyptian antiquities. Both are gifts of Mrs. Jane L. Stan- ford, and were purchased by her during extensive travels in the past year through he domains of Khedive and Mikado. re Japanese collection has just been ed and fills a circular room in the west wing of the museum. The room adjoins a much larger one devoted Japanese objects of art and antiquities completes a collection not surpassed if equaled by that of any museum in the most interesting piece in the new rese room is 2 magnificent and elab- kor incense-burner. This omte plece was made to the order of the head of Tokio by a famous more than a hundred of a weal Japanese years ago artist His intention was to contrib- vte the koro to the Fudoson, or evil- slayer of } ta, in token of fidelity; but t an unforeseen circumstance he was v ccomplish his purpose, and . years the koro came into DEITIES 150 YEARS oLy possession of & wealthy Japanese gentle- man, from whom Mrs. Stanford pur- chased it. The entire design is symbolic of Budd- ism, and shows in a wonderful manner t only the artistic perception but the arkable skill of Japanese bronze- workers of the eighteenth century. A group of three gint-wood Buddhist deities shows Amida the ideal of bound- less light, and two images known collee- as Kwannon, godde: of me: istens to the prayers of the unhap- The central Buddha, with lotus is more than 150 years old and came from a temple in & suburb of Tokio. Of more than ordinary value is a large vase of original Satsuma. This vase was made by potters brought from Korea in e seventeenth century by the Shogun Hideyoshi, and is one of the first exam. ples of the art of Satsuma faience pro- duced in Japan. Excellent opportunity is he comparison of the old the Satsuma of to-day, as tains many pieces of the ch seems to have departed 1 both style, finish and coloring In addition to the purchases made for the muset Japan fo be place anford brought from bronzes, which are to emorial court which to the quad- ions to the Egyptian collection, attractive from the artistic point of view, are of far more scientific value. Only a = but these what is yet to come. Dear to the heart is @ case filled with sand of the Sahara dating as early as 3000 B. C. The pottery is of the most primitive form and entirely without or- nementation. It is from the excavations of W. M. Flinders. Petrie, and is a part of the Egyptian research fund Another equally valuable collection is one of anclent stone im: that to the archaeological eye are not unlike those of the North American Indian. These implements are from the prehis- toric flint mines discovered by H. W. Scton-Karr in the Egyptian desert about 1% miles south of Cairc and fifteen miles east of the Nile. A remarkable cpliection of ancient Su- ese armor was secured by Mrs. Stan ford st Assuan, situated at the first cat- aract of the Nile, upper Egypt. The metal pieces are very old and were used by Budanese warriors. They are of finest Damascus steel, and the larger pieces, such as shields and helmets, are inlgid with gold and stlver. Sword sheaths and other articles of alligator hide were made by the Bisharins, a tribe of wild natives living in the Nubian des- ert, and used by them when fighting. The srrows have poisoned barbed tips and meke an ugly wound. The walls of the Egyptian room are hung with art squares, hand made by the netives of Cairo, Egypt. The patterns ere copies of pictures of kings and gods or the walls of tombs and temples, and also of cartouches and hieroglyphics. In some the colors of original decorations have also been copled. There is algo a fine assortment of mum- mies; mummies wrapped and mummies unwrapped; mummies of royalty, mum- mies of the priesthood, mummies of the lower classes. Besides there are mummy ccses galore, showing the various styles of decoration; mummy masks covered with gold leaf, mummy foot coverings ornamented with gods, goddesses and sacred animals; all ehowing the develop- ment of anclent Egyptian workmanship. A very interesting relic, and oné show- ing & rather novel departure from the wummy cases of wood, is the head of a | portion are as vet in place, from A curious example of. first century art is shown in two portraits painted on wood, one a man, the other a woman, and both showing a type not unlike the Latin races. These paintings were taken from mummies found at Roubayat, Fa- youm. Among the most remarkable things in the way of ornaments and jewelry of the Ptolemaic epoch is a gold - necklace of overlapping rings hammered to the thin- ness of paper - and with four-leaved rosaces forming the clasps. Bracelets of the same period are of . heavy twisted strands of gold, with heavily ornamented clasps set with redoish agate. Others are plain, hammered bands of pure gold, very heavy, and relieved by simple coils of old N0 epoch in Egyptian history is without representation in this museum. The re- cent additions to this collection were bought under the direction. of Brugsch v, one of the best-known authorities oh Egyptology, and this insures the authen- ticity of the records and adds much to the scientific value of the collection. In that part of the Kyticas collection secured by Mrs. Stanford there are some ART SQUARES SIOWIIIS ESYTPFTIA rare bronzes that give a comprehensive jdea of early Egyptian art. The bronzes are gmall and represent many of the fa- vorite gods and goddesses of anclent Egypt and also the animals sacred to these divinities. There are scarabae, too, without num- ber, and coins, alabaster vases, metal mirrors and other articles of household use, as well as a varlety of paintings and reproductions of bas-rellefs of great his- torical value. Twenty-three huge volumes, containing an aceount of the French exploration and occupation of Egypt by Napoleon, pub- lished by his orders in 1812, are among the choice additions to the museum library. At the present rate of scientific re- search Egypt will soon be entirely denud- ed of what remains of her ancient civill- zation, and it is because of this fact that Mrs. Stanford's latest gifts to the mu- seum are of great importance. PHOTOGRAPHIC POINTERS FOR AMATEURS. HE making of lantern slides and thelr projection upon the screen by means of the magic lantern or stereopticon forms one of the most enjoyable branches of photographic work and one that is particularly adapted to the Jong fall and winter evenings. All the various steps in the making of the slides are possible without daylight and the work can, therefore. be carried on during the evening or as far as one cares to work into the night. In the making of slides it must be re- membered that they are really nothing more or less than photographs, similar in almost every respect, except that they are made upon glass instead of paper. A negative from which g slide is to be MRS. S TANFORDJS[ THE SUNDAY CALL. LATEST GIFTS TO STANFORD made must be printed upon the: film side of a g'ass piate Instead of on the coated s!dé of a prepared paper. This printing may be done by. contact 4n the printing trame, precisely as a silver print is made, or the operation may be carried on by copying through the camera. The size ANNTIETIT Sy AT itles are extremely fine. i After exposure of -the plate it should be taken to the 'dark room, removed from the printing frame. carefully dusted and development should be proteeded with in the same way as with an ordinary dry plate. Care must be used.that the' plate FoxERAI W oF of the negative has much to do with the method best adapted to any individual step. Where a sliae is to be made from a negative by contact it is a foregone conclusion that the size of the objects shown in the slide must be exactly the same as in the negative. If It chances that the negative to be reproduced in this way Is of the same size as the lantern slide plate, 3%x4 inches, the operation s simple and s carried on tn the foilowing way: A printing frame of this size s obtained and the negative to be copled is carefully cleaned on the back or glass side and placed in the frame film side upward. Next, in the dark room, a lantern slide plate is placed fiim-side down upon this negative, a printing pad covering the plate, and exposure is then made by gas light ‘or lamp lght through the negative in the same way as if a plece of dévslop- ing paper were being printed. .Exposure varies according to-the densify of the negative, the nature of the light used and the distance of the printmng frame from the light during printing. As a general gauge to exposure, however, it may be safd that with a negative of an ordinary printing quality and any of the several brands of lantern slide plates on the mar- ket, an. exposure of, say, five seconds at a distance of two' feet from the frame 6t an ordinary. gas burner should give a fully timed positive. Lantern slide plates made specially for this purpose are much lower than the ordinary dry plates and, being rich in silver, thelr printing quai- 22T o DY IASTY does not take on too much density. If the exposure has been fairly correct and the developer suited to the purpose, the plate will develop with regularity, shad- ows bullding up evenly and rather quick- 1y after the image has fully appeared on the gelatine coating. When the proper density has been reached, which can only be asceftained by experience, the plate should be rinsed and thoroughly fixed in an acid fixing bath made up by the form-- ula given below. Lantern slide making by contact is not, by any means, & difficult operation, and it offers & method of obtaining a perma- nent set of prints from one’s best nega- tives, far superior to any paper print and- - possessed of the advantage that they may be examined by transmitted light dnd viewed in the same way that a print. would be, or they can be shown upon a screen and enlarged to a size many times greater than themselves. One of the best developers for the ordi- nary lantern slide; recommended by a prominent worker and very successfully used by the writer, is made up as fol- lows: vy Hydroquinone, 6 grains. Sulphite of soda crystals, 240 graina. Bromide of potash, 15 grains, fluld oun;al. Carbonate of soda, 860 grains. Carbonate of potash, 850 grains. ‘Water, 8 fluld ounces. 7 To one ounce of A and one ounce of B add two ounces.of water, which will give a‘normal developer that will keep for a considerable time afid may be used over and oveér-again until it loses power. An exeellent acid fixing bath for lan- tern slides or negatives may be made as follows: % A Water, 28 ounces. Hyposulphite of soda, 8 ounces. 3 B. ‘Water, 8 otinces, Sulpharic acid C. P., 1 dram. Sulphite’ soda crystals, 11-2 ounces. Powdered chrome alum, 1-2 ounce. CATS Tilil. SNAKES. LL ‘members of the cat tribe wave A Jtheir tails to and fro when pro- 7/—_\\ voked. This curious habit cannot e explained, except as an instance of what s called ‘‘protéctive mimicry.” Among. Insects and ather humble creat- ures it §s.common to:find those which are comparatively defenseless adopting the - N % i, Pa aspects and manners of'their more form- idable neighbors, and thus securing im- munity from attack. This defensive method s rare among the higher animals. Nevertheless, many of the cat tribe, when face to face with an enemy, ap- parently imitate the behavior of a veno- mous snake, and thus avall themselves ot the Instinctive horror of the serpent which we find among all warm-blooded’ creatures. X The hissing and spitting indulged in by kittens (and other young creatures which have their natural nurseries in hollow trees and similar places) probably has its use In the fact that few inquisitive pre- datory beasts would care to risk a pos- sible encounter with an.angry snake. The front -aspect of an ry cat, with Its ears laid flat against its head, its eyes glaring .and its fangs exposed, is very -likke, and the explosive, hissing soumds it utters are exactly similar to those uttered by some serpents when about to strike. Agalnst the mimicry hypothesis is:the fact that the large and formidable felidas, such as panthers, lions and tigers; which juredly need no protection of this sort, wave their tails when alarmed or angry lugd in _‘danger from foxes, dogs and jackals. It must be remembered, how- ever, that all innate habits, such as those which we are discussing, and especially all habits which are common to a whole specles or family, are of the extremest antiquity. And in early days of mammalian life on the earth all the ancestors of our modern cats, and indeed all warm-blood- ed creatures of every kind, were 5o small and defenseless that they bably need- strategy as. the to avold S TSAPVAIMESE MOWoO O ETTTEILSE BURMNER _, )