The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 9, 1902, Page 15

OU wc not recognize the ping pong girl if you could see her in the middle of the day. She is not dres ecollete and she does not ! aited gown. On the gymnasium she may be read e evening. ve that it is s by day in order ht. ut such is the ke, who is a great pin s part of her & d the Princess of Pless cent, the y g Duch- the Duchess of sary for her t to play case. well Vir to etics. th say, if n the set w is stiil “Prince’s Set,” to be skillful at game, and there wom of any play or who is not get 4 The English beauty experts, who are good, indeed, have adopted principle y & new used to begt & massage and for which they Her Bath Is Sweet. They take six ounces of orange flower ca water gnd ebout an elghth of a dram of simple tincture of benzoin, and putting both into a bottle they shake well until that looks very y now add a ent it an excellent bath it should be tried carefully benzoin has the effect of e ekin, and it will sometimes hat this will make the skin very stiff, as though This drawing fec ced by ¥ one wk n upon the face, and if th ure d affect the skin in this way a litt vater can be added e that it is all right u will not see & woman backward until her head heels by an g pong & throw herself touches her what you will see which makes her bend her t waist. And the same time she will move her arms, sometimes clasping them ghtly and again waving in the air. The motions are swift and they should be graceful. But to get grace is the dif- ficult point. You ust put on & gymnasium suit and low-heeled shoes, gymnasium shoe; and you must sway the body from side to side, throwing your arms over your head, and you must bend backward and forw You can searcely do this too often, for you will need the utmost suppleness if you are going to get grace. After the ping pong aspirant has prac- ticed for awhi will be necessary to massage the n, for violent exercises are apt to leave one stiff in every joint. Making the Wash. which is very much liked ermaceti and white wax ties, two ounces of each. and eight ounces of pure d. To this there must be ams of pulverized borax ee ounces of glycerin. An ounce a nice finish maceti and the wax have nd the ofl added the whole moved from the other ingred- ded ng all skin foods and prepara- t require heat it is best to use & boiler. Not only will the wax nd burn, but there is always more anger of the material catching s very readily ar it is r to put all into a double emoved from all heat and or the hot water A skin foo ‘When th been me can es a very good ve- kinds of skin own a small ¢ kept for this purpose. e boiler over a perfectly be cheaper. But at clls catch fire one cannot be too careful no necessity for using fire water will always melt wax. do not ping pong, but all and t to be graceful. Therefore etend to take part 1 t ames of the day can bene e same by & course of stmple athletics A Lesson in Grace. There are women, and most of us know them, who cannot stoop to pick up a pandkerchief without getting red in the those who cannot lift palpitation of the s of women have diffi upstairs and the number withou* getting out of ty yards can be count- then you see & woman who of running upstairs and down walk gracefully, and who ch and pick up and get ering from a Sushed face and Now you do find such a woman one who impresses you as ng woman. She is so lithe associate her with youth no ow ©ld she may be. her figure and her s make you think that Father T.me has deait lightly with her—as in- Ceed he has. : re busy these days taking years 's age. It used to be thought 1 of forty was hopelessly old t and at fifty she was considered 1 the vanities of life. Her thoughts )n the grave and all her prepara- death were made. Now that woman shaking off her years goes She loses one hundred same cut and walks. r pounds or so and gets mice slender hips again. Disappearing Chins. Her waist grows smaller and her chin THIS 13 NOT ABSOLUTEL NECESSAryYy BOT 1T 4 aRE ml L begins to disappear. Tt is a great age for the old woman who wants to become young and the chances are that if she is rot too settled in fat and hopelessness she can train down and be so young thal her daughter of half her age will envy her and wonder how mother has done it. Mrs. J. asks for something to reduce the hips. There is a speclal dietary for this, as well as one to develop the bust. Adele writes: WIE you please glve me some very simplé, harmiess remedy for keeping the hair curled during the hot weather? Also something to make the T air light, as mine is turning much dark- er than it ever has been, and it grieves me very much, and I am afrald to ask druggists what to use. I shall be anxious for a reply to this note. Wash your hair in tepld water in which there are a few drops of ammonia, but not enough to smart the scalp. Rinse in warm water, with powdered borax add- ed, and dry in the sun. You need never be afraid to consult a good druggist. C. asks: What will remove hair from the chin besides electricity? Have you tried pulling out the hairs? Get a ‘tweezers and go to work. If the hair is in the form of down on the chin buy e stick of prepared substance, heat it, clap it on the skin, let it cool and pull off. It is very painful, but it works. Florence writes: I am reading - your beauty talks and enjoy them very much, especially those upon.the caré of the skin. I wish to inquire the cause of a porous skin and the remedy for it. My cheeks seem very porous at times and I do not know the cause. I will await your reply. Large pores In the skin come from neglect. Often one does not know how to care for the .skin properly. The pores must be cleansed and fed with an astrin- gent skin food to close them. HE SUNDAY CATL. - PHOTOGRAPHIC POINTERS —N FOR AMATEURS. 8 the season for flash-light pho- tography approaches many at- tempts will- be made to photo- single portraits and groups of several figures by its means, and very successful results ° - graph interiors, “The Octopus,” by the late Frank Norris, has justly been considered . the nearest -ap- proach to the “great American novel” ever written. As a novel dealing with California life and scenes it is ‘undoubtedly the best in print. Tais splendid story is now running in The Sunday Call— FREE! NO EXTRA EX- PENSE! 135 more pleasing portrait than if the lght were used without the diffusing medlum. Of course, a larger amount of powder must be used if the light is softened in this way, and great care must be taken that the diffusing screen is far emough removed from the powder to be free from danger of ignition. Flash-light work must be carried om urder such conditions that ventilation may easily be secured in the room where the powder is exploded, and a draught of air should be allowed to pass through the rcom after each exposure, In order that the smoke from the preceding ex- posure be cleared away, as otherwise subsequent plates are apt to show on de- velopment a very considerable fog, which is due In most cases to the presence of the smoke from the preceding exposure. A portralt lens is best adapted to work of this kind, but falling it, & wide an~ gled instrument Is next best, although it nelther of these is at hand an ordi- nary lens supplied with all cameras will do fairly well. It must be remembered that with a lens of long focus the camers must be placed at a considerable dis- tance from the figure, and that, as the source of {llumination must not be In front of the camera where it shines into the lens, the time of exposure will be much longer than if a short focused in- strument is used, and the source of illu- mination is placed near the sitter. In all work of this kind a large stop should be used. Focusing may be done by the aid of gas light and very fine fo- cusing by candle flame, which may be made to occupy exactly the same position as the subject photographed, and a fine focus drawn upon it. In all pictures where living figures are photographed it is well to make the preliminary arrange- ments with plenty of gas light and to leave at least one burner lighted during the exposure, even while the lens is un- capped, but the burner so lighted must not be where it can shine into the lens. The reason that it is well to leave a little gas lighted in the room is that the sitter's expression is more natural and not subject to the strained and fright- ened look which is often seen in flash- light photographs. A small charge of flash powder is often of great assistance in photographing dark interiors where the daylight is not suffi- - may be obtained If the beginner will go about it in the proper way and will first learn something of the powers and limita- tions of the flash-light powder he is us- ing and become familiar with the light- ing produced by a certain amount of pow- der at a given distance and direction from his sitter. After having selected the kind of flash powder he prefers to use, let him make two or three experimental lightings and exposures upon a light colored bust, or tailing that, a water pitcher or light col- ored vase, placing the' selected object in the same general position that would be occupied by his sitter if he were making a portrait. Two ‘or 4 exposed and developed under these condi- three - plates UNLESS yYorr cRn oo Trus S ArE pp e ATHLETE. tions will ald him materially in his prep- arations for work of a similar kind with living Diffusion of light from the discharge of a flash powder is one of the most im- portant elements of successful lighting of the portrait sitter. If the light is al- lowed to fall directly upon the features without the interposition of a screen or diffusing medium the shadows will be much teo sharply cut and the whole ef- feet of the portrait will be black and white instead of being characterized by eoft gradations.. A plece of thin linen or cheesecloth spread tightly on a frame or suspended between the source of light and the-sitter's face tends to soften the shadows very materially and give a much clent to penetrate Into the deeper parta, In such cases a partial exposurs should be made by the use of daylight, and af- ter the plate has been nearly exposed a flash powder should be set off and the exposure finished by the light thus ob- tained. An important part of this procedure is to locate the flash so that it shall llu- minate the view from the same general direction as that from which the ex- posure was begun. This do away with cross lights and shadows running in opposite directions and will give a brighter and more snapny look to the in- terlor than if the exposure is ‘carried out entirely by the aid of the daylight. The beginner is warned in this, as in all other flagh-light work, that due pre- caution be exercised against fire and also against an explosion of the flash com- pound {tself. Most of those obtainable at the supply stores are practically safe if the printed directions accompanying them are carefully observed. THREE GENERATIONS TO MAKE A GENTLEMAN. ROFESSOR KARL PEARSON, F. R. 8., who has taken a leading part in founding the doctrine of evolution on a statistical basts, ex- plained to a deeply interested audience at the British Royal Institution recently some of the results which have been reached. Two of these are of special im- pertance. It is shown by the examina- tion of large numbers of persons that mental and moral as well as physical qualities are inherited, and to the same extent, Taking school children and examining them minutely with respect to curliness nd color of the halr, length, breadth and height of the head, color of the eyes, the cephalic index and health on the one hand, and on the other testing them for inteliigence, vivacity, conscientiousness, popularity, temper, self-consclousness, shyress and handwriting, the degres of inheritance in the two categories came numerically as close as 521 and 522. Sec- ondly, it is proved that two or three gen- erations will suffice to creats a new stock. Statistics of large numbers show that there is more than Is often supposed in the saying, “It takes three genera- tions to make a gentleman,” and In the expression, “Visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fouth generation.” Pedigree in humanity, as in the lower arimals, is a vital factor. Thus a family or a paticn will certainly progress or de- generate as the issue of heredity. It needs but to repress the numbers of the better and higher to multiply the nume bers of the lower and less fit for two or three generations to make national de- generation terribly real. Professor Pearson's tabular results showed the universality of the laws of inheritance, not only in animals lke horses and dogs, but in lower insects and even in plants,