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RECREATION. 



A Good Formula Free 



To save plates use a Wager Ex- 

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saves its cost in a month. No sensitized paper, no multiplying in the head — that's a 



nuisance, and besides you may make a mistake. Endorsed by the Editor of Recreation. 



Post free, 50 cents. Aluminum $1.00. Your money returned if you don't like it. Send 



a postal for our Booklet No. 5, lots of hints and formulae. 



Wager Exposure Scale Co., Box 539, Philadelphia, Pa. 



SIX 5 x 7 PHOTOS FREE OF CHARGE. 



George E. Moulthrope, Photographer, Bristol, Conn., 

 will send every person remitting him fi.oo by P. O. order 

 for a year's subscription to Recreation, and 10c. for 

 postage, 6 Elegant 6x7 Photos on 8x10 Mounts. 

 The photos are from the choicest of several hundred neg- 

 tives : "Strings of Game Hanging," three of each kind ; 

 'In the Field Series," from life; "Mounted Specimens," 

 artistically posed true to life. Reference as to quality 

 of photos, Mr. G. O. Shields. 



{pfyotoqtapfo on CCot^. 



If they become soiled or mussed, can be washed in cold 

 water (no soap), and ironed with a clean hot iron. De- 

 signs include Official Photos of Pan American Buildings 

 and Niagara Falls Sent by mail. Sensitized Prepared 

 Cloth, with full directions for printing from your own 

 negatives, sent by mail at $i a square yard ; 50c. y 2 

 yard.; 35c. % yard. 



N. POMEROY, Jr., Lockport, N. Y. 



TO EACH PERSON 



Sending $t.oo (P. O. Money Order) for Subscription to 

 Recreation, I will send, in addition, a Pocket Com- 

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 watch case style, glass-covered dial, ring handle. 



EDWARD S. ADAMS, 



Box 536. Manchester, N. 0. 



SEND $1,25 



For handsome and durable 



Hand Carved Leather Belt. 



The Latest Pad in Leather Novelties. 

 E. M. HUFF, Forsyth, Mont. 



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I will send by registered mail, post paid, 

 50 5x7 views printed on either Vinco, 

 Solio or Velox paper, and mounted in a 

 Buechner album, for $8. These views are 

 of live and dead game, mountain scenery* 

 lakes, waterfalls, fishing scenes and park 

 views. A sample print will be sent for 15 

 cents in stamps. 



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I have copies of these pictures and they 

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IMPROVING LANTERN SLIDES. 

 It is not always advisable to clear a lan- 

 tern slide. Many otherwise excellent slides 

 are ruined by being brightened up unneces- 

 sarily with ferri-cyanide and hypo. The 

 old idea that a lantern slide must contain 

 a quantity of clear glass was right enough, 

 provided it was not carried too far. In 

 most cases it is well to have the highest 

 lights almost if not quite clear glass ; but 

 if they occupy more than a minute fraction 

 of the plate there is a loss of gradation 

 between them and the next highest, which 

 will help make the slide hard and glaring. 

 When slides are made in large numbers 

 to sell, the taste of their purchasers has to 

 be considered ; and the non-photographic 

 audience likes a chalky, black and white 

 slide. Many of the most popular com- 

 mercial slides are hard, and have a curious 

 warm black color, obtained, I believe, by 

 some process of gold toning. To photog- 

 raphers, however, such slides do not appeal, 

 and when it is a question of making the 

 best possible transparency from a negative, 

 methods calculated to please the public 

 must be ignored, and only those dictated 

 by an educated taste adopted. In such a 

 case, therefore, it is well not to have re- 

 course to ferri-cyanide and hypo for clear- 

 ing, unless absolutely necessary. There are 

 times when so good an effect can not be 

 obtained without its use ; but, generally, it 

 will be found that with care an equally 

 bright result can be got by development 

 direct, and that the gradation will be su- 

 perior to any obtained by a reducer. Many 

 slides otherwise hard are softened in effect 

 and improved by a little intentional veil- 

 ing if not carried too far. To see this, 

 bind up such a slide temporarily with a 

 lantern plate that has been slightly fogged 

 and developed. The effect can often be im- 

 proved by reducing this fogged slide in 

 parts, so that it only damps down some 

 and not all of the high lights. Those who 

 have never tried it will be surprised at the 

 extent to which some slides can be im- 

 proved by this simple process.-— Photogra- 

 phy, 





