CHAPTER XVIII. 



LANTERN ACCESSORIES. 



CARRIERS. 



LANTERN, as supplied by the dealers, is with- 

 out any means of holding the slides during 

 exhibition. The slide stage is there, but it is 

 about 4J inches in height, while the slides themselves 

 are 3^ inches square. To obviate this difficulty, it 

 becomes necessary to fit this stage with a wooden 

 contrivance called a slide carrier, which can be pur- 

 chased of many different patterns. Professional exhi- 

 bitors use a wooden frame for each separate slide, but 

 this plan is both inconvenient and unnecessary for the 

 amateur. Besides which it is positively a bad plan for the 

 user of a single lantern ; for as each picture is removed, 

 and another one put in its place, the screen is left bare 

 while the transfer is effected. This not only has a bad 



