The age-herald., 1901-03-31
AMATuER PHOTOGRAPHY
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BY R. W. HAIR BISON.

perceptive faculties? In looking for pos slble views or pictures the eye takes in and notes a great many things unnotlced by those who don't press the buttons.
 Mir Fox has a superb lot of 6laxSis negatives of the cyclone views This new addition to the ranks of the amateurs is a skillful and ndiambitious worker. Like other enthusiasts he does not count the cost of the plates when he wants result. His view of the place where MT. Loves house stood is excellent. Aside from the fine discernment in the selection or light and point of view, the chemical efteet IS rema rkably good. He does his own de- veloping and when he adopts Pyro he will get a wider scope and be better aple to handle large range of subjects.
 Notes and News.
 Miss J. G. Clarke of New York, who has been visiting her uncle, MT. George Clarke, is also a follower of that great revolutionist, Daguerre. She takes espe- cial interest in tho art side of the produc- tions of the camera.
 It is marvellous how many young boys have cameras, and how the grade of work which they do. Sleight of hand perform CTS say 1t is harder to hide their moous operandi from boys than from scientists, and so the boy catches on to the tricks necessary to working he camera revy readily. A camera is liberal education to a boy, and he Is not into much mis- chief while handling that instrument.'
 It is noticed tha so far there have been very few ladies observed photographinS the ruins Bless their hearts they were probably doing something directly or in- directly to relieve the suffering A wo- man can have a good time doing good,
 Camerasthenia.
 It has got me at last.
 Fate so decreed it.
 There was no escape.
 Like Malvolio, I had 1t thrust upon me
 The photographic fad.
 One of the two fellows who sit next to me when I am not strollng is dyed-in- thc-wool camerist,
 The other got hold one of the mystl- cal little dark boxes with sensitized plates for tenants and lens for a Win dow, and, with all the ardor Of youth and the enthusiasm of novitiate, began to make daily reports of his achievements to the old timer. For time 1t seemed to me that I could hear nothing but hvpo, dcvil-oper (so pronounced by the new fend), niblick being left at the poSi, 9 cents for blue chips and the chandelier NNeN over-exposure blitZen-pulver three bag gers restraining solution, bunting, f.l backs. and half tones and then l thought to myself how nice 1t must be te know how to speak and understand that lam guage.
 The whole thing reso1red itself into the question of whether ~,y pocket book was better able to stard the strain that buy ing a camera would make on it, or my
 Ikc nf "a verbal arm. As the latter was being rapidly reinforced with such recruits as vignet-ng. bromide enlargement9, blue prj-ts. queen full, anastigmant, cleik, i.tlation, mashic, touchdown, show down out rig-ers, swing-back, half backs roor-back. and a lot of other glosr sological SO lers of fortune. hoboes and o,,tcrs.s, Ihad about concluded that it would be better to let the strain fall al- most any where than on my ears. It was then that tho fate of which spoke rush cd In and decided the question for me
 I was talking to a friend about my in- torest in the art, and he asked me why I did not go into it. There was a fine opening for fifth rub stab and I re- marked that I would get a camera as soon as he paid me that S17o5 Without wincing from the thrust he replied that he would be glad to lend me his camera.
 He lent 1t to me. and if I needed the seventeen cases and two bits before any old hand at touching the button knows how much more I need them now. You can pay to go into a theater, and come out for nothing; or you can go into a church fair for nothing. and pay to come out. but you have to pay twice for every thing about a camera. once when it goes in and again when it comes out. And that's no dream.
 ST. LOUIS PHOTOGRAPHER.