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will cause all particles of dust to be drawn to the 

 films ; so it is better either to leave the plates un- 

 dusted, or to gently (and dryly) blow the surface. 

 If a tripod is used, and it is by all means recom- 

 mended, the length of the ordinary legs will be found 

 quite insufficient, owing to the depth of the snow ; 

 an extension leg of about two feet in length will 

 prove of the utmost value, or, better still, have 

 small light discs, about four or five inches in 

 diameter, which should screw on to the end of the 

 tripod legs. Those will act as snow-shoes and 

 prevent the legs sinking too deeply in the snow. 

 Keep plates or films in a waterproof bag, and let the 

 bag be buried in the snow when not in use. 



CAMPING IN SUMMER. 



WHEN the trees are in full leaf and the days 

 begin to be warm most of us talk of what we will 

 do during the summer ; how we will spend our 

 holiday. Each one has some particular idea of how 

 a summer holiday should be spent. One prefers the 

 sea-shore, another a regular summer hotel in the 

 country, and many take long trips on bicycles or 

 in boats. Comparatively few even think of camp- 

 ing ; the crudest country boarding-house or the 

 much caricatured farm-house which condescends 

 to be inconvenienced by summer guests for a paltry 

 consideration of $10 per week ($5 would be more 

 than ample) seem to the uninitiated better than 

 camping, and they put up with uncomfortable and 

 often unclean beds, stuffy rooms, and poor food with- 

 out a murmur. Why do they not take a good tent, 

 or several if the party is large, and go to some suitable 



