The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-13


him at his lectures
Miss Katherine Weed Barnes goes into
amateur photography with who!e-souled
enthu -iasm. Miss Barnes Is a niece Of
Thurlow Weed, and. having pie ty Of
money, she docs not stint herself in the
number or the costly appliances Of her cam
eras. If she wants 10 find out if she likes "a
thing she buys it and tries It, Thus it comes
! about that she owns twenty-six different
| Photographic cameras and has fitted up a
| studio that wins eXclRmatl 7ns Of admiration
| and despairing envy from its 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
ladies prizss,n maintaining that women
| exhibitors should not be set off In a class by
( themselves 10 compete only with one an
| other, but that men and women should con
| tend without sex distinctions, on the same
I footing, for the regular pres. She mas
| lately become one of the editors Of the
| american 1mGfeUr photographer.
There Is no use IN mixing much in the
! company of amateur photographers unless
/ YOU share their enthusiasm. Get half a
dozen OF them together and they will begin
/ about ''pyron and Iron developer and
! bromide prints and color values" and
| their language Will depart so far from
/ every day English that you speculate
| whether taey are talking Sanskrit or Choc
taw. This is how it happens with some of
the women artists who use photography
| as an adjunct To sketchiug. Miss
| Agnes Abbott, for example, who has
done many good things both as flower
| and landscape painter, makes considerable
use of the camera to give her in a minute
details which it would take her an hour to
bring out with pencil At her clultry
home in summer she sketches a scene in
broad outline which strikes her as an at
tractive subject for a painting, and then
photographs this fence corner or the way
that shrub leans over the brook, or a dozen
and one other items which are SO many
memoranda helps to her memory.
The wife of another artist is good deal
of photographer. Mr.. j. Wells ChamDnev
uses the camera and Mrs. Lizzie w. Champ
ney uses 1t quite as successfully. With its
help she has preserved interesting records
of the growth of her children, picturing
them preferably while at play. Instanta-
Photographic recreations. People with
detectives take them pushing the
lawn mower, riding pick-a-back on
papa's shoulders. A little boy was
taken the other evening by a flash light at
his mothers knee. AT prayers" she called
it. Wasn't praying" protested the honest
urchin; Just having my picture taken"
HI ldIullIES, IL may Do HDIeU,
the children get well used to posing. One
sweet-faced little girl is taken every Christ
mas morning, surrounded by her toys. In
after years she will have proof positive of
the great number and variety of her child
hoods play-thlngs.
The Photographic section of the BROOKLYN
institute is getting up excursions this sum
mer to different points in the suburbs, and
these are attended by quite a number of
"omen with their cameras. Miss Mary
Newton, whose mother is chairman of the
executive committee of Sorosis, and who is
in her tastes an artist, is one of the en-
thusiasts, and Mrs Cornelia Hood who is
now part owner Of Miss Mary F. Seymour's
Business WOmdn's Journal, Is another.
The detective is becoming quite a useful
article of the newspaper wOman's stock in
trade Miss Elizabeth Bisland is a clever
photographer and Miss Eta Thackeray, who
is a relative of the novelist, has done con-
siderable work with the camera. Miss Alice
Stone Blackwell has Photographic tastes,
though she INDUCES in them for amusement
and not for the benefit of the WOman'S
Journal.
Photography seems to have an especial at
traction for actresses. 1t is one of Clara
Norris hobbies, and her fine horses are her
favorlte subjects. Ada Rehan got a camera
this spring, though how much she is doing
WIN ~ w IlOO huOW. Oub OuGnb 10 HOu
plenty Of picture material and plenty of
people of congenial tastes in London.
A woman to be Sympathzed with is Mrs
Cleveland. She is rather given to hobbies
but is shy of INDUCING her tastes, because
everything she does brings on her so many
eyes. She is fond of the violin, but after
her music mistress was interviewed her en-
thuslasm appreciably declined. She is fond
of the camera, but does not like to be seen
with one in her hand. Still she has made
fair number Of snap shots, and is probably
making more this summer at Marion. A
sense of the humorous crops out in her
choice of subjects.
A taste for the camera once fully de-
veloped there is no telling where it will lead
person. 1t will take you to Alaska to
picture Indians, as it did Mrs Platt, or
through the Vale of Cashmere, famed for
many things, but more especially for
shawls, as it did a woman who has wandered
twice round the globe in search of ina
terial." 1T will take you up into the Cats
kills, where photography is a regular
sport with the Onteora colony, or to
Asbury park, where the confirmed pho
tographer has no respect for the cloth, but
takes anexhorter in full tide of admonition.
1t may even take you, as it did my nearest
friend, to penitentiary, where she photo
graphed poor fellow in the prison dentists
chair in the act of having tooth extracted.
Great is photography Its charms are many,
and its claims, when 1t has its grip on you,
MEMORABLE ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.