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RECREATION. 



In happy homes, wherever found, 



One hears the Washburn's merry sound 



THEY PLAY 



WASHBURN 



Mandolins 



GUITARSa^BAKJOS. 



Unequaled for Tone, Durability 

 and Workmanship. 



We will gladly send free a beautiful Art 

 Souvenir Catalogue and "Facts About The 

 Mandolin" and "How to Play The Man- 

 dolin" if you will send us your address on 

 a postal card. 



LYON & HEALY,. 2 !S„ 8 . S, ■' 



The World's Largest Music House. Sells "Everything Known in Music." 



ATTENTION BASS FISHERMEN !! 



What It Is. A Bass lure combining all 

 the good points of the old fashioned spinner 

 baits with the construction of the modern 

 wooden minnow. 



What It Will Do. This lure is construc- 

 ted in a new manner with a new feature and 

 will catch more bass than any other artifi- 

 cial lure. 



How To Get It. Send one dollar to 

 Recreation for a year's subscription to be 

 credited to my account aud I will mail you 

 one postpaid. W. B. HAYNES, 274 Park 

 Street, Akron, Ohio. 



IN YOUR OUT DOOR LIFE 



YOU WILL NEED A 



Duplex: Fork 



for handling- hot potatoes, ears of corn, boiled eggs, 

 and other hot food, and you will find it indispensable 

 for use with pickles, fish and meats that an ordinary 

 fork will break. The forks are always open and ready 

 for use, and with a slight pressure on the handle any- 

 thing can be easily taken hold of without fear of break- 



n S* Postpaid, 25 Cents 



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Mention Recreation. 



CURLING. 

 _ Every photographer is annoyed at the 

 sight of his mounted prints bending or 

 curling inward after drying. The reason 

 for the bending of the mounts is, of course, 

 that the print expands on having the wet 

 mountant applied to its back. On drying, 

 it contracts, and must haul the mount in- 

 ward in doing so. 



In mounting prints direct from the wash- 

 ing machine, the buckling is still marked 

 when all is dry, because of the greater 

 moisture in both the paper and the film. 

 Take a cockled, mounted print after it is 

 thoroughly dry, and on the back of the 

 mount paste a piece of thin white paper, 

 such as printer's demy, or the wrapping pa- 

 per used by chemists after it has been 

 soaked in water, and dried on a glass slab 

 or between sheets of blotting paper. Tissue 

 paper answers perfectly in the case of 

 mounts of average thickness. The paper 

 need not be so large as the mount, but it 

 should extend to within a quarter or half 

 an inch of the edges. 



In cases where both the photographic pa- 

 per and the mounts are extra thick and 

 tough, it may require a strong, heavy paper, 

 such as brown wrapping or cartridge, to 

 counterhaul the mounts. A few experi- 

 ments will soon show what is exactly need- 

 ed to bring the different mounts straight. 



It is well to watch how long different pa- 

 pers require to absorb moisture, how far 

 they stretch when wet, and how far when 

 only damp, so that some method or system 

 may be adopted to apply the papers at such 

 a stage that, when dry, they will haul the 

 mount straight and truly flat. A little curl 

 outward will not matter in most cases ; bet- 

 ter to be curled out than in, but, with 2 or 3 

 trials, it is a simple matter to ascertain ex- 

 actly what to do to have the mounted pho- 

 tographs flat and true when dry. Besides, 

 the paper on the back always adds to the 

 general solidity. — Amateur Photographer. 



Nature's sun-blinds are the clouds. The 

 photographer in his studio admits light here 

 and excludes it there, until he secures just 

 that particular lighting which his subject de- 

 mands. Watch a landscape on a day of sun 

 and cloud, and notice the marvelous varia- 

 tions in effect as certain parts are illumi- 

 nated by sunlight, while others are dark- 

 ened by the flying shadows of the clouds. 

 Such incidental lighting is of infinite as- 

 sistance to the observant picture maker, and 

 affords opportunities that are entirely absent 

 with a cloudless sky. Remember, however, 

 that the pictures so produced must have 

 the original cause of these masses of light 

 and shade correctly indicated by the sky ; 

 there must be no cloud shadows with a 

 clear sky. — Exchange. 



I think Recreation easily leads all other 

 sportsmen's papers. It is a gem. My fam- 

 ily enjoy it fully as much as I do, and that 

 is putting it strongly. f _ 



Andrew E. Veon, Brainerd, Minn. 



