The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-25
MENTAL KODAKS.
Jane Eyre Tells How They Operated
at the Woman's Con-
Rr9SS.

Sf0SS.
The ladies who participated in the
Woman's Congress yesterday sat before
the camera as many times and in as many
different poses as there were pairs of eyes
in the audience to behold them.
That the photographs carried away by
the members of the great assemblage were
mental ones makes the fact all the more
significant. instantaneous photography
has been an ccomplished fact ever since
Adam looked upon Eve after the ceremony
of rib extraction and was pleased. We
call these more or less crude licensees
impressions" and fortunate is the sitter
who never fails to make good one, for
nineteenth of the success in life he owes
to that faculty.
Surrounded by half dozen ardent new
women, who uncomplainingly stood first
on one foot then on another, and finally
took lowly seat in the aisle of the church,
in company with the others produced my
mental kodak and proceeded to make
"snap shots" 1t was at the afternoon ses-
sion. Many of the amateur photographers
thought the light ''just right" A few
might have insisted that the softened light
within four walls of home would produce a
more beautiful picture than does the fierce
glare of public life. But then the photog-
raphers were satisfied with the results of
the sittings, whether the photographed
were or not.
DR.. Elizabeth J. Corbett posed we'll as q
woman who thinks. She is nothing if not
original. Life's problem is not SO battling
to her as to most women, and every day
she solves some portion of it. There is
nothing negative about her, and yet hers
is not one OF those positive personalities
that rasps every one who comes in contact
with it. Essentially practical and essen
tally strong, DIR. Corbett's nature can be
clearly read in the strong and matronly
figure, the steady gaze, the fresh coloring
and the gown-serviceable as to texture
and color.
And what fattering photographs the
intellectual kodak fiends' would have
liked to make OF Mrs. Steven Matthews,
the dear little English woman with the
cameo face, trim figure and flute-like voice.
What fund of kindly humor she has.
voting has not 'unWomaned' me-" was
her modest claim; and the hardest-hearted
OF her own or the opposite sex could not
deny it.
DR.. Sarah, I. Shuey, introduced by the
presiding officer as member of the Oak
land Board of Health. came to the front
blushing rosy red after some humorous
allusion in the introduction. Here were
refined enthusiasm and unlimited zeal,
but with genuine womanliness always
uppermost.
When Mrs. McComas came forward as
an exponent OF dress reform a kodaker
near me disposed OF her as that woman
with a wrapper, And SO strong is the
instructive regard for external beauty in
the feminine mind that Notwithstanding
her wise words about the necessity for
dress reform and her true words about the
courage required to adopt it her picture
will remain conspicuous chiefly because of
the wrapper" effect of the Vatican pleat
and gathered front.
DIR. Kellogg Lane, imposing in appear
ance and forcible in argument, makes a
good impression, and Rev Mia Upper
Maynard's fine intellectual face, youthful
vigor and sweet com polling voice charmed
the most fastidious. The lady from Lee
moore, who told of the wonders in santa.
ton produced in that little city, is energy
personiied and determination in feminine
guise. The Rev. Mrs. Bowles would i'm
press stranger, like the writer, as an
aspirant for leadership Sin any shape, in
any mood born manipulation of wires.
Excepting, of course, Rev. Anna