The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-07-13

amateur photography with whole-souled
enthusiasm. Miss Barnes is niece of
money she does not stint herself in the
number or the costly appliances of her
cameras. If she wants to find out if she
likes thing she buys it and tries it. Thus
it comes about that she owns twenty-six
different PHOTOGRAPHIC cameras .na and. and
Examinations eso sa W of admiration 'a and de-
spairing envy from it's visitors. Miss
Barnes has paved the way for the admission
of her sex to Photographic societies. In
Photographic exhibitions she has stood con-
sistently and logically against the absurd
exhibitors should not be set off in a class
by themselves to compete only with one
another, but that men and women should
contend without sex distinctions, on the
footing, for the regular prizes. She has
lately. become one Of the editors OF the
There is no use in mixing much in the
company of amateur photographers unless
you share their enthusiasm. Get half
dozen of them together and they will begin
about "pyro" and Iron developer" and
'.bromide prints and color values" and
day English that you speculate whether they
are talking Sanskrit or Choctaw. This is how
it happens with some of the women artists
who use photographs as an adjunct to
sketching. Miss Agnes Abbott. for example,
who has done many good things both rs
flower and landscape painter, makes con
siderable use of the camera to give her IN
minute details which it would take her an
hour to bring out with pencil. At her coun
try home in summer she sketches scene
in broad outline which strike her as an
attractive subject for a painting and then
photographs this fence corner or the way
| that shrub leans over the brook or dozen
| and one other items which are SO many
| memoranda helps to her memory.
The wife of another artist is a good deal
of photographer. Mr.. J. Wells Champney
uses the camera and Mrs. Lizzie w. Champ
| ney uses it quite successfully. With its
| help she has preserved interesting records
of the growth of her children, picturing
them preferably while at play. Instantan-
eous pictures of children are fascinating
Photographic recreations. People with de-
tectives take them pushing the lawn mower
riding pick a-back on papa's shoulders. A
little boy was taken the other evening by q
flash light ut his mothers knee. AT pray.
ers," she called it. Wasn't praying" pro
tested the honest urchin: lust having my
it may be noted, the children get we'll used
| to posing. One sweet-faced little girl is
taken every Christmas morning surrounded
| by her toys. In after years she will have
| proof positive of the great number and
variety of her childhood playthings.
| The Photographic section of the Brook
| lyn institute is getting up excursions this
summer to different points in the suburbs
! and these are attended by quite q number
| of women with their cameras. Miss Mary
Newman, whose mother is chairman of the
executive committee of Sorosis and who il
! in her tastes an artist, is one of the enthu
| siasts, and Mrs. Cornelia Hood, who 10 nov
part owner of Miss Mary F. Seymour's Bus
mess Woman's journal, is another.
The detective is becoming quite usefu
article of the newspaper woman's stock il
trade. Miss Elizabeth Bisland is
clever photographer and Miss Eta
Thackeray. who is 9 relative of tn.
novelist, has done considerable work with
the camera. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell
has Photographic tastes. though she in
dulges in them for amusement and not fol
the benefit of the Woman's journal.
Photography seems to have an especial at
traction for actresses. 1t is one OF Clar,
Morris hobbies and her fine horses are he
favorite subjects. Ada Rehan got Gamer,
this spring. though how much she is doin.
with 1t do not know. She ought to fint
plenty of picture material and plenty o
people of congenial tastes in London.
Awoman to be sympathized With is Mrs
but is shy of indulging her tastes, becaus
everything she does brings on her SO man!
eyes. She is fond of the violin, but afte
her music mistress was interviewed her en-
thusiasm appreciably declined. She is font
of the camera but does not like to be seeI
with one in her hand. Still she has made
, fair number or snap shots and is proba bl,
making more this summer at Marion. /
sense of the humorous crops out in hel
choice of subjects.
} A taste for the camera once fully devel