The herald., 1914-10-29
GOOD DISCIPLINE
BY GRACE MOON.

the girl with the camera slung over
her shoulder. buy a tank and a scale
and d 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! II you know
know that pride is at the head of the
list. To cure it. let some one take
good swift snapshot of you when
your re not looking. 1t can reveal and
! correct more beauty defects than 52
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 BruCes
spider and more effective than s5bs
soliloquies When you have measured
out 16 ounces of hypO in half ounce
scale-whiCh means that you have to
balance it 80 times. to the rhythmic
chant of twenty grains one scruple.
three scruples one dram. eight drains
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 1t with cheerful
heart your spiritual condition is en-
couraging.
when you come home from YaCa-
ton 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
bowl of innocent looking hot water
which should have been cold-a bowl
which a member of your family had
placed carelessly at your side-and
you see your jolly groups of bathers
and cancers run into a 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, / 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-
: vantages 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, 4 didn't know l had
a double chin!' or I certainly can't
, wear a soft collar!'
Then you suddenly realize that
your modest self-effecing friend has a
normal ego.
. For social popularity the snapshot
!, Is an open sesame. If with your bread
and butter letter you can inclose few
snapshots Of the infant idol OF the
family, Of your hosts new chicken
4 coop, or your hostess new porch set,
the invitation to come again will be
sincere and urgent.
sWhon ~ ooupaa tn oonorocitu q
. gentle art Of snapshotting has no
y equal. Suppose in a rash moment you
). have promised each of eight friends a
:. full set Of IL prints. After a prelimi
Il nary struggle with drains and scruples
a you start in to print. Your family ad
, monishes, urges and finally commands
a you to be sensible and 60 to bed, but
r. you feel that you must persist in your
Il altruistic endeavors. 1t Is midnight
I. before you get your SO prints to wash
in a bowl Of running water in the
a kitchen sink.
o When you return at the end Of ar
n hour you find that several of the prints
Is with the perversity of inanimate
things. have slipped over the drair
% and a miniature Niagara is splashins
IT down upon the floor.
"The heat has been Of two hour!
10 and it's ten degrees below zero, anC
W the kitchen has a west exposure, but
you open the door and sweep strenu
r ously and exhaustively. And you heal
% the splash OF the water out the porch
II on the landing below, then on the wall
II in the yard, and you think Of the pro
s. file Of drainage Of the great lakes, An,
20 you tread lightly and softly, partly be
% cause you are reluctant to dislodg,
the water soaked ceiling in the fat be
70 low and partly because you are afrait
~ OF waking your family and bringint
y down on your unoffending head
chorus OF I told you sos
~ AFTER three hours OF hard labor Vol
close the door just before the milk
man tears up the back stairs. AM
~ then, when you come to the breakfas
- table the next morning, heavy lidde,
and sore Of spirit, but discreetly 81
% lent, another OF your household come
In and says In convincing and appeal
:. ing tone: I'm dead tired! ] didn'
-. sleep a wink last night!'
"Then II vnu cau restrain Won