Putnam patriot., 1914-12-25
GOOD DISCIPLINE
By GRACE MOON.

the glrl With the camera Slung over her shoulder, buy a tank and a scale and a few dozen different chemicals, and a book of directions and leave him to his fate. The seeds of humility, pa- tience and long suffering will bear fruit thousand fold.
 Don't laugh; it's true! If you know anything about the capital sins you know that pride is at the head of the list. To cure 1t, let some one take a good swift snapshot of you when you're not looking. It can reveal and correct more beauty defects than g visits to the shop where they make you beautiful while you wait When that same snapshot is three or four years old and you gaze upon the hat that was none too becoming in its best days. you begin to realize that the lily ? of the field had some advantages over solomon.
 As for patience, amateur photog- raphy is more instructive than Bruce's spider and more effective than Jobs soliloquies. When you have measured out 16 ounces of hypo in half ounce scale-which means that you have to balance it g times, to the rhythmic chant of twenty grains one scruple, three scruples one dram, eight drams one ounce-and then forget whether the last measure was the twenty first or twenty-second half ounce, and you have to spill it all out and begin over again, if you can do it with cheerful heart your spiritual condition is en- couraging.
 When you come home from a vaca- tion with several rolls of films and be- gin developing the best and most cher. ished roll and it comes out of the tank distinct and clear and you drop it into a bowl of innocent looking hot water which should have been eold-a bowl which a member of your family had placed earelessly at your side-and you see your jolly groups of bathers and cancers run into shapeless mass of gelatin and you hold in your hand blank film roll. then if you can turn to the offender and say with serenity: It's all right, I really don't mind-' then you have merited triple halo.
 Do you wish to understand your neighbor? Try a group picture. In the first place, when it comes to posing a group, have you ever observed the serene indifference with which each member regards the position and ad- yantages of every other member? The most humble and retiring individual quietly and persistently slides into an advantageous position, regardless of the same desire on the part of every one else.
 And when the same group has been finished and you talk about light and shade, tone and contrast-you were not in it, of course-and you try to get anyone else to observe these points and you say. Don't you think the shadows are good? your friend will invariably reply, I didn't know l had q double ehin!' or I certainly cant wear q soft collar"
 "Then you suddenly realize that your modest self=e1acing friend has a normal ego.
 For social popularity the snapshot is all open sesame. If with your bread and butter letter you can inclose a few snapshots of the infant idol of the family, of your hosts new chicken coop, or your hostess new porch set, the invitation to come again will be sincere and urgent.
 When it comes to generosity this gentle art of snapshotting has no equal. Suppose in a rash moment you have promised each of eight friends a full set of 12 prints. After a prelimi- nary struggle with drams and scruples you start in to print. Your family ad monishes, urges and finally commands you to be sensible and go to bed, but you feel that you must persist in your altruistic endeavors. It is midnight before you get your 96 prints to wash in a bowl of running water in the kitchen sink.
 When you return at the end of an hour you find that several of the prints, with the perversity of inanimate things, have slipped over the drain and miniature Niagara Is splashing down upon the floor.
 "The heat has been off two hours and it's ten degrees below zero, and the kitchen has q west exposure, but you open the door and sweep strenu- ously and exhaustively. And you hear the splash of the water out the porch, on the landing below, then on the walk in the yard, and you think of the pro- file of drainage of the great lakes, And you tread lightly and softly, partly be- cause you are reluctant to dislodge the water soaked ceiling in the fiat be- LOW and partly because you are afraid of waking your family and bringing down on your unoffending head a chorus of I told you sos,
 After three hours of hard labor you close the door just before the milk man tears up the back stairs. And then, when you come to the breakfast table the next morning, heavy lidded and sore of spirit, but disereetly si- lent, another of your household comes in and says in a convincing and appeal ing tone: I'm dead tired didn't sleep wink last night"
 Then, If you can restrain your words of contradiction and offer sym- pathy in soft and gentle tones with an invisible smile for the audible slum- bers to the rhythm Of which you swished broom half the night-weli, amateur photography has done more for you than Gideon tears and long weeks Of fasting and sacrificed"