Wichita eagle., 1890-02-07
Denofd. He uses sn1 rr vnEs 10 cai.s :
dark room, and kss xnsrjvanceefor shKttLl.

DehofA. He uses Hns1 rcc vnss 10 cai.s :
dark room, and kss Dnsrjvanceefor shKtta.
out the kght
notice that, In one Of the hooks ycu Sss,
him, DogDerre was the irvensOr OF photos
rapny. He may haye be.n the iHveuscr
photography, but think it was another sui
phurous gentleman WIKI tie Hs.ne initi2l who
was the inventor Of aalGtsur photography.
My husband vas reasa,xS,Y :zDod teEtIereo
unth he took Up your dzaboknd art. l ose
time oPaDed the eloar af 5sse Ses.n IN which be
WEE working. It vas all 1x.rE Inside except Z
fearful red lamp, which threw rudy glow
on his face, and mode him look ss If he were
going TO have an ep;kotic TT Thc moment
opened the door and bet some Eight into the
room that man went perfectly crazy. He
claimed had spoiled a dozen Of his plates,
although had touched nothing, and l came
near suing for divorce because OF has awful
remarks. If the evil ono Was not tho inventor
of amateur Photography then wo1H like to
know who was. Then the pictures he does
turn ont when be gets them finished axe Per
fectly awful. He hes tried at different times
to photograph tie children, but the poor
little dears looked like WOODEN images iu the
pictures / went into the bathroom once with
the baby and put him in the oata too. There
was some water there already. and it looked
clear enough, but in it waS some horrible
solution of silver that turned most Of the
baby jet black. and we haven't been able to
ge. out the color to this day.
Then the cost Of the thing Is soDsthing
frightful, although my husband carefully
conceah what he sperds on Il. J. came across
one OF the Photographic dealers bills the
other day, and it was eroueh to make ones
hair stand on end. Pyrogalaic acid, what
ever that is, was fifty cents an ounce.
Just think, if 1 bad to pay that price fon
sugar. Eight dollars pound, instead Of te'.
centsi
Fifty cents an ounce! Ard that wasn't
the worst Of it. Now what do you think
chbride of gold costss For fifteen grains hs
is charged City cents Now that, as you
know well enough, Is very near $50 an ounce,
and so an ounce is over $500 a pound.
don't know how many pounds OF the wTetchsd
stuff he uses every week, but if he uses ten
poSpds Of it, and l am sure ten pounds Of
sugar doesn't go very far in q house with
large family like ours, you would see that
that is 5000 for that one thing alone, not to
mention the dozens OF Other chemicals he
uses, and I am sure l don't know what the
pTlco OF gnSDl Is
tell you that amateur photography was
invented to drive poor woman crazy who
has husband that Is victim of the villain
Gus practice. No wonder he says be can's af-
ford a new dress for me when I ask him for
it. The house is stained with horrible solu-
tions from caliar TO garret, and I'm always
afraid to use any cups or glasses for fear
there is some dreadful poison in them. The
cat took some milk out of a saucer that had
something or other of potassium in it and it
just carried up and died
I'm always afraid to sweep in any part Of
the house for fear 1t viii raise a dust that
will spell something that he has tackled up on
a board to dry. wou]dn't mind all this SO
much II he ever took picture that Was worth
looking at; but, as l said before, he never
does. There, now, print that in your miser-
able photograph book if you wont to.
Mrs. JOHN TRIPOD
n. B.-H you ever write to my husband
again telling him that his articles on photog
raphy will be appreciated l will burn your
letter and yoa will lose your postage stamp.
So just remember that Mrs. j. T.-Detroit
Free Press.