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RECREATION. 



Master one method of development 

 thoroughly first Experiments may then 

 be tried. " I advise all photographers to 

 try Tolidol developer, made by Haller- 

 Kemper Co., Chicago, 520, 35-37 Randolph 

 street. I am convinced that no one will 

 ever use any other developer after giving 

 Tolidol one trial. 



Use slow plates, except for special work. 

 Plates now called by manufacturers ordi- 

 nary will be found rapid enough for almost 

 any subject, and they are much easier to 

 manipulate. The more rapid the plate, the 

 greater the difficulty of producing a bril- 

 liant negative. 



Keep your plates and plate holders under 

 lock and key and thus prevent prying 

 fingers from opening and spoiling them. 

 Most people ignorant of photography are 

 wonderfully curious, and their inquisitive- 

 ness may soon spoil a batch of good work. 



Study the Photo Beacons, Exposure Ta- 

 bles. They will be a revelation to anyone 

 who has not studied the subject thought- 

 fully, and will be found of material assis- 

 tance to the tyro as well as to the expe- 

 rienced worker. 



Use a focusing cloth at least a yard 

 square, and never draw the slide of a plate 

 holder without carefully covering it with 

 the focusing cloth, which should be, if 

 home made, of 2 thicknesses, black lined 

 with red. 



One dish should be kept separate for 

 toning and should not under any circum- 

 stances be used for any other purpose. The 

 toning bath is a delicate solution, and the 

 slightest contamination may render it use- 

 less. 



Do not remove a plate from the hypo as 

 soon as it looks fixed; that is, when all 

 the yellow color is gone from the back of 

 the film. Ensure perfect fixation by leav- 

 ing it some time longer. 



If vou have a film camera see that every 

 roll of film is specially packed in an air 

 tight tin box. Films will not keep well for 

 any length of time in the tropics. 



Use either albumenized or platinotype 

 paper for printing. The gelatine papers are 

 not successful in the tropics unless packed 

 in air tight tin boxes. 



Always dust out dark slides before filling 

 with fresh plates. Otherwise a plentiful 

 crop of pin holes may be expected on the 

 developed plates. 



Always varnish your negative. Never 

 take even a proof before varnishing. It is 

 a simple operation. 



Starch paste is the best mountant, but 

 it must be fresh when used. Sour starch 

 will ruin any print. 



IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE WILDS OP 

 FAKIRLAXD. 



J. D. R. 



The September number of the Metro- 

 politan Magizine contains a story that will 

 thrill every living hunter of big game, 

 and cause several dead ones to turn over 

 in their graves and take a fresh grip on the 

 hereafter. Although some details are 

 lacking, the story bears all the ear-marks 

 and side brands of a great scientific dis- 

 covery, and the fact that the statements are 

 vouched for by that well known hunter- 

 photographer, Clarkson Peters, is suffi- 

 cient to floor every doubter in the first 

 round. 



Up to the present time the world has 

 not had spunk enough to produce a deer 

 with antlers on both sexes. Our modest 

 and ladylike females of the Virginia and 

 mule deer species have never aspired to 

 the possession of horns, even plain bone 

 ones, let alone steel-tipped antlers that can 

 penetrate wood without limit. 



But all things are possible to him who 

 believeth, and the discovery, in the wild 

 fastnesses of Fakirland, of a species of 

 deer the females of which are heavily 

 antlered, will come to the U. S. BiologicaJ 

 Survey as a sockdolager which will shake 

 it to its foundations. 



The antlers of Peters' Big Horned Doe 

 are erect and straight, and the cervical 

 vertebrae are iron-clad, so the mother 

 deer can with all ease and comfort 

 to herself, plunge her antlers into 

 standing trees with such force as to bury 

 the antlers out of sight. Indeed, there 

 are times when she buries them so 

 deeply she is obliged, when alone, to dig 

 them out with her own hoofs. When sev- 

 eral does are together, they take turns in 

 digging out each others' antlers, as women 

 do in centering each other's skirts on their 

 respective shirt waists. 



Another but less striking peculiarity of 

 the Big Horned Doe is that she will leave 

 her fawn to be monkeyed with, by Mr. 

 Peters, day after day, while she is away, 

 presumably grinding and polishing her 

 horns. This is ill advised of the mother 

 deer, and she should be spoken to about 

 it. 



The following is Clarkson Peters' true 

 and voracious account of a meeting with 

 a Big Horned Doe, as set forth in a thrill- 

 ing article entitled "Hunting Big Game 

 with a Camera." Curiously enough, Peters 

 forgot to supply any of his own gallantly 

 won photographs, for those reproduced 

 with the article were taken by Mr. and 

 Mrs. Killen. in the New York and Wash- 

 ington Zoological gardens. This was a 

 sad oversight on the part of Peters. But 

 read the storv: 



