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RECREATION. 



the Ferris wheel; another, 3 dogs in a 

 wheelbarrow, and not hunting dogs either. 

 There are at least 50 views of scenery, 

 without a figure or an object of any kind 

 ni sight that in any way illustrates any 

 form of indoor or outdoor sport or 

 Recreation. 



The majority of contestants have learned 

 the important lesson of not allowing their 

 subjects to look at the camera; but there 

 are still a few who insist that even though 

 a man may be engaged in playing an im- 

 aginary trout or aiming his gun at an 

 imaginary bird or deer, he must still give 

 his neck another twist in order to look at 

 the camera, while having his picture taken. 



The object of the photographer in all 

 such cases should be to make the action 

 in which the subjects are engaged appear 

 real. When a man is really doing any- 

 thing in the way of outdoor sport, he is 

 not supposed to be having his picture 

 taken. There are many notable illustra- 

 tions of the proper way of doing this, and 

 some of them have won prizes. Conse- 

 quently their photographs will be pub- 

 lished in future issues of Recreation. 



MYSTIFIED THE INDIANS. 



There is a photographer in Chicago who 

 had lots of fun a few months ago with 

 some Arizona Indians. 



It seems that last year, when the Navajos 

 were having their snake dance, he was sent 

 out there by a moving picture concern to 

 get a series of negatives. He didn't suc- 

 ceed, because the savages were too shy 

 and suspicious; but he caught some of 

 them at their sports at an agency store, 17 

 miles North of Canon Diablo. 



This year he went out to try the dance 

 again and took his exhibition outfit along. 

 Reaching the store he invited the Indians 

 to see the show. About 600 came, and he 

 put up a screen behind the store one night 

 and shot off the pictures. 



The Indians gazed at the various scenes 

 with open mouths, apparently not compre- 

 hending. When the moving railway train 

 was shown, growing from a pin point on 

 the horizon till it rilled the whole frame, 

 seemingly rushing down upon the crowd, 

 they gasped in unison and would have fled 

 had not the interpreter reassured them. 

 The march of soldiers was something that 

 r->nst of them had seen, but the exhibition 

 drill of the Kansas City Fire Department 

 was an uncanny mystery. 



The climax came when the pictures 

 taken on the same spot the preceding year 

 were reproduced. Most of the Indians 

 had been present when the pictures had 

 been taken. 



Many of them almost shrieked when they 

 saw themselves in action as they were in 

 the chicken pulling contest and in the races 

 of last August. Last year a popular clerk, 



since gone away, had carelessly walked 

 across the instrument's field. The Indians 

 shouted as they saw him again on the 

 canvas. 



Real enthusiasm was caused by the pas- 

 sage across the screen of the trader's well- 

 known dog. 



When the entertainment was over the 

 Indians crowded around the screen, feel- 

 ing the canvas and rubbing their cheeks 

 on it, chattering noisily in their amaze- 

 ment. 



THE NEUTRAL BATH. 



In the September number of Recrea- 

 tion you say,, quoting the Eastman peo- 

 ple: "We recommend neutral bath and 

 advise testing with Squibbs' litmus paper." 



(1) How much borax, or the saturated 

 solution of borax, should be added to the 

 48 ounces of water and 1 grain chloride 

 gold? Of course I mean approximately. 



(2) What is meant by toning by trans- 

 mitted light for high lights and half tones 

 only? 



(3) Are solio prints fixed without ton- 

 ing permanent? 



F. T. Morgan, M. D. 



■ ANSWER. 



1. As the quantity of surplus acid in the 

 chloride of gold solution is not known, the 

 exact quantity of borax required to make 

 the solution neutral cannot be stated, and 

 can only be found by experiment. The 

 gold solution will turn blue litmus paper 

 red, and one should add, drop by drop, 

 enough solution of borax to make the gold 

 bath turn the red litmus paper blue. The 

 bath is perfectly neutral when both colors 

 are left unaltered, but as the prints toned 

 in the bath tend to make it acid a slightly 

 alkaline action of the bath when prepared 

 is advisable. 



2. This means the tone of the print 

 should be judged by holding the print up 

 against the light and looking through it 

 and not by what it appears to be when 

 looking at the print in the dish. As the 

 high lights and half tones are more sensi- 

 tive to change than the darker portion of 

 the print, one should watch the former 

 and stop toning when they have attained 

 the desired tone. The shadows will then 

 take care of themselves. It will be found 

 that the dry-finished print will look like 

 the wet print with transmitted light, and 

 this explains why one should look through 

 the wet print instead of at it to judge its 

 final appearance. — Editor. 



A BIG SAVING. 

 When t began to print and tone my own 

 photos I used solio toning and fixing 

 solution, sold at 50 cents an 8-ounce bot- 

 tle, and which, diluted with 16 ounces of 

 water, makes 24 ounces of bath. But lately 



