The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 2, 1903, Page 2

o has gone out of v east. No more does the . k that her are best dis ple ses. The summer ¥ : e en the per picture must have recommend it than s a “good. like- well, who is {-the never- ns enough of sen- keep them ce 1o o acred for profanat oridly -wise 100 often to the. jux- fashionakle eglected: et has n, dict; e tie part’ What- 3 ast, he has from the summer fad, and ome unless great < pr That summer- gir?s "fad.- *Thé substance. of which this the shadow is” wants to.be pious ‘or. pretty; but is ‘the: keynote -of ‘the represented as the’ very- embodiment of wealth, culture'end all the. graces,- And ever must sne be @epfcted: in ;motion—. wid. awake—sophisticated—the very. u; ness. photography have —the" stage still Démie ‘Fashion' has been Clothes,- fine, - well ed clothes were. never Every woman has ng luxurious to wear and ‘every lay .herself- before Listen fhus .to one o6f the, iests of the néw art, Lawrence F. Terkeison, the chief operator -at: Bushs nell’s People will not have pi word something striking eir gowns are the first t *.consideration, but the pretty girl would be & picture that would dis- herself and her finery to‘the best ad- verly antage, she now wants to be shown in movement f she is in street dress she wants the picture taken with her. skirts daintily gathered in her ead carried su- ised, the wh n e figure inclined and with a f shapely ankles quite as t photographed unawares frternoon stroll - f a tea gown all th isplay fashionable function rovi or the pretty gig will ne She must be shown usly ‘receiving’ or languidly dis- neing hospitality to her guests, even igh they be only imaginary, quite like real thing. And sgain must the slip- foot be in artistic evidence. t here let me say that that is most remarkable things about fad for ‘strenucus’ pictures; insist upon having their feet ap- \der any and all conditions wher- ever possible, with, good reason, no doubt, from the feminine point of view. Fi it must be remembered that the standard of physical perfection in Cali- fornia is, without doubt, the highest in the world, ‘Ist’t that alone somethirg to be proud of? Indeed beauty of any sort offers its own excuse for perpetuating it in_ifs most attractive form. ‘Why not make the most of it then,..just as our women are doing? °© * i 2 “Add to this that theré néver was suc! finery of all sorts—such extravagance ‘in siery and shoes—and it .is not difficult t6 understand why the women with pretty ankles and feet ars so-eiger.to have then conspicuous — modestly conspicuous, . of course—in’ their own favorité pictures. Vanity, you say? Well—maybe. - But vani- ty that is well nigh universal, to say the least. . . “But certainly from'the standpoint of art it is not vanity at all, but a quality that must be reckoned with in any effortat pleasing results. standing in repose, and iake note how the skirt—even the best fitting skirt- imagi- nable—will often hang in straight ugly lines. Such a'\pose is fatal to artistic .photography. Take a picture of her thus and no matter how handsome of face’ or figure she may be, she will look as’If she had been chopped from a block-of wood. There is no life,’ no animation, no ac- tion, in such a picture, and as I sald be- fore, life—aniffated, puisating life—is the only thing that ¢ounts nowadays. “Now let that same woman gather ‘up her skirt with a practiced hand as ‘she would do while walking, balance herself lightly but firmly on .the ball of one foot, while -.she raises the heel of the other quite as 1f she were about to take a step forward and you have a picture that is full of actual motion and suggest- ed charm. 3 ““However, action of this sort is only a minor part of the new fad for strenuois- ness in photography. .What the pretty girl really desires most nowadays-in com- bination - with’ alertness in " picture are moods. Where she might’ secure a mere- ly pleasing portrait seated comfortably Just’ observe a woman - - but a storm, in a big arm chair, for instance, she pre- fers to impress you with a spirit of frank chumminess by -balancing herself airily on. the arm of the chair, perhaps because 1t is not-just- the sort of thing she would do .before any_ but- her very .closest and most confidential friends. ! “Perhaps it 1s out of all these elements therefore that the summer girl's fancy for having herself photographed in -all sorts of outing costumes hag grown. But no matter what the causes, it is astonishing to what lengths the "demand has ‘been carried. And now is the season when the. bathing girl is in her glory. With the daintiest or the most dashing costumes that were ever created for ordinary ev- eryday wear to choose from is it surpris- ing that the taste for these pictures is rampant. - We have had the fencing girl and the golf girl and the tennis girl in ber wildering variety. but the summer bath- ing girl never before attained the.popu- larity that she has this year. . “And her fancy In pictures goes far be- yond mere portraits—the common ordi- nary poses, which always looked as if the suMt itself were the first and only consid- eration. Now everything must be a-flut- ter just s it would be if she were stand- ing, walking or posing in any of the in- numerable wiles or graces so dear to the girlish heart, along & wind-swept stretch “of glistening sand. ' Skirts, hair ribbons and accessories of all kinds must take on the action of the wind.. Thus a stunning girl can enhance her charms by borrow- ing something of the ocean’s impressive grandeur by ‘having herself photographed in' a storm—a mere studio storm,.'tis-true, nevertheless, in the finished result. .. : 2 o “Likewise, the modest little beauty ‘can take on an added degree. of helplessness and absolute dependence by having her- selt’ photographed under the same -condi- tions, in & manner that would-make the coldest masculine nature’ in. the world eager ‘to take her under his protecting Wwing,.or she can look bewitchingly pretiy in'a gentle breeze that simply flutters her skirts.and unruly curls into graceful un-: dulating lines. - Or ‘shie can be as dashing as the waves themselves in daring divirg poses, with hair and skirt blown. back in- vigorous- style, ‘quite as - if - she. were caught with a. shapshot in the very act of the plunge at the seaside. 5 4 'Oh, ‘there is a -perfectly bewildering variety of ‘poses, and you may be sure that the summer girl has made the most of them all. SR “‘But this Drinciple 1s not confined to full length pictures alone. Even the com- mon . ‘bust’ picture has had to conform to the new fad. If the. pretty girl is wearing a large draped picture hat the #vell must not be allowed to hang limp and inert. - As with the hair and the skirts in the bathing pictures, the vell must be caught up as in -a breeze and whisked into graceful lines, or the picture is voted ‘dead.’ g 2 ; “In much the same way are the latest coiffures being shown, It is not enough that a good portrait of the pretty girl showing her face at the most becoming angle I8 secured. She must be pictured from all' points of view—full face, profile, three-quarter view and back view, so that none of the glory of her hair may be lost. Here is where the coquettish art of a stray curl on brow or cheek or at the ‘nape of the neck must be preserved and enhanced if the pictures are.to be at all popular. ;. i | “Hardly less numerous but .Infinitely iore artistic are some of the new draped pictures, in - whi¢h all . the ‘old-time classic and many new and novel poses are carried out, with halr and draperies Wwindswept as-in the bathing pictures. These are not merely animated statuary,. but complete art creations, such a: ‘Psyche .at the Pool, viewing her mir- rored image in the water, which must be. carried out- with absolute fidelity to .modern . photography. THE SUNDAY CALL. detail. This {s no. small:task, even in You can {magine for yourself the great. difficulty of -pro- ducing many of the other more famous classics. ‘And thiese poses, let me hasten to say, are the final test of beauty. Any girl who can stand. such a test has good reason to be proud of her picturs What the ultimate. will .be I doubt if even the wild fancy of the summer -girl herself can picture. It Is.sure to be something extraordinary.” —_—_——— . Queer -Things About Frogs. The frog’'s skin s so important as a breathing apparatus that the creature would die at once of suffocation if the pores were closed by a coat of sticky var- nish, by dust, or in any other way. While we are speaking of his breathing, you will notice that his sides do not heave as ours do at each breath we take. A frog has no ribs, and cannot inhale and ex- hale as we do, but is obliged to -swallow his alr in gulps, and if you will watch this little fellow’s throat you will see it continually moving in_and out as.one gulp follows another. In order to swal- low, his mouth-must be closed; just try to swallow with your mouth. wide open, &@nd you will wee what I tmean. g A frog, then, always breathes through his nose, and if ‘you held his mouth open he would ‘suffocate as surely as though you gave his skin a coat of varnish. “Mr. Frog” has an enormous mouth for his size, and If we were to put a finger irnside it, we would find that he has a row of téeth'in the upper jaw, and that his soft white tongue, .unlike our own, is. at- tached 'In front and is free behind. When he wishes.to catch any insect, he throws out the free end.of the tongue, then.draws it in so rapldly that it is difficult to see whether he has been suc- cessful or not. - As the tongue is coated with a gummy fluld, the insect sticks to RPN T M OLACE dQucklings, polliwogs and tiny frogs. —————— Can the Universe Last Forever? The universe is certainly In-a stats of change, -and scfentific men, as well as theologians, have looked forward to the tuhe when its energy will no long available—that 13, to its end as a cosmos. But it is suggested by Profess T. J. J. See of Washington that, in"ce: taln contingencies, ws might condel it as eternal in its present state. The re- cent confirmation of Maxwell's (he?ry that light exerts a repulsive force makes it certain that part, at least, of the mat- ter drawn in from space by luminou gravitational centers like our sua again expelled. Probably, he says, onix e small fraction of it is thus expelled, S0 that condensation continues; but “if 270l T3k 7. Butts From Pfisters. it ind is earried back into the mouth, Wwhich closes upon it like the door of & tomb. ' 'Frogs, however, are not limited to one mode of (feeding, says Ernest Harold Baynes; .th.y often leap .open- mouthed " upon larger prey, . which in- cludes, besides insects, small fish, mice, this. expulsion- of matter should by any posaibility of future discovery prove to be equal to that drawn in by the attractive force of gravitation, it would .be con- ceivable for the universe, in its present state, to.last forever, a thing heretofers . considered impossible.”