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American Agriculturist, May 5,1923 
That Graduation Picture 
Help the Photographer to Do You Justice 
H undreds of pictures of grad¬ 
uates from grammar, high school, 
and college will be taken this spring, 
and it is a safe guess that fully half 
of them will be voted “perfectly terri¬ 
ble,” “a libel” and other unkind things 
by the subjects and their friends. But 
it will not always be the photographer’s 
fault. There are simple rules for sit¬ 
ters to follow, which, if disregarded, 
may spoil the best effort of the most 
expert photographer. 
Children should be simply dressed— 
the more simply the better. Light or 
white clothing is desirable. . The hair 
should not be “slicked down” nor yet 
curled until frizzy. Sometimes a little 
disorder is most natural. 
Don’t make your child self-conscious 
by talking beforehand as though pho¬ 
tography was an ordeal. Don’t instruct 
the child how to pose or what expres¬ 
sions to assume. If necessary to call 
the attention of the photographer to a 
stiff or unnatural expression, do so if 
possible without letting the child notice 
it. Never have more than one person 
besides the photographer in the room. 
raising them from seed, and found it 
could be done easily. 
It is best to sow the Marguerite seed. 
This variety comes into bloom earlier 
than any other I know. If well cared 
for, the plants will blossom in four 
months from the time of sowing seed. 
I sow the seed in the hot bed, just 
about this time of the year, but they 
could be sowed in boxes of prepared 
soil in the house late in March. They 
should be kept moist until they gei’mi- 
nate. When about one inch high, I 
transplant to another part of the hot¬ 
bed and the seedlings immediately begin 
to stock up and become thrifty plants. 
They are left here and the dirt often 
loosened around them until they are 
about four inches high. They are then 
transplanted in the open ground and 
left until the latter part of September, 
when they are potted. They should be 
cultivated through the summer—the 
oftener the better. 
When potting for winter use a rich, 
tenacious soil, having a good drainage, 
as the plants do not thrive in a soil 
that does not hold together well when 
THIS IS WORTH MEMORIZING 
^DEOPLE try to persuade me out of farming. * * Is there any 
other pursuit that furnishes one fraction of the joy, as a by-product, 
that farming does? Here I was just going out for posts, and what 
blossoms and poetry did I not come upon? No matter how exasperatedly 
one starts out, one returns rewarded, whether it is from a trip to the 
barn on a stormy evening, when your lantern makes a golden richness 
in the brown shadows, and everything smells of hay and milkiness, 
and the beasts are so sleepily pleased to see you that they quite melt your 
heart; or from a dash through a star-lit barnyard, on some anxiety or 
other, with a freezing wind blowing, but with Venus and a young moon 
putting your eye out over the top of the wall; or from a fagging jaunt 
in a twilight rain after escaped ponies, when the graying mountain world 
grows beautiful beyond any dream, and one pushes the soaked hatbrim 
away from one’s eyes and thanks Heaven for sending one out to see it. 
We are too lazy or too busy, or too unrealizing, to get at beauty; we 
have to be shoved out into it, and if it is your vocation that does the 
shoving, thank it with all your soul. Give up farming? Not while I 
love air and moonlight and gray rain and birdsong and the woods—and 
a million other things.—From THE LONE WINTER, By Ann Bosworth 
Green. 
Girls and women should also follow 
the rule of simplicity in dress and pose. 
Dress the hair as it is usually worn; 
don’t use a net. Sit or stand comfort¬ 
ably; if you are in a strained position 
the picture will surely show it. Don’t 
wear a dress of a decided figured mate¬ 
rial, one with many ruffles or any other 
pronounced feature that may soon go 
out of style. A smiling picture, though 
often attractive at first, is apt to grow 
wearisome after a while. 
The stout woman should wear a dark 
gown, with downward lines, such as 
those given by long strings of beads or 
a lorgnette. Her thin sister may wear 
any light gown, short strings of beads, 
a fur neckpiece or a light tulle scarf. 
Dignity and simplicity should char¬ 
acterize a man’s portrait. Dark clothes 
and patterns are best, while checks, de¬ 
cided stripes or bright contrasting col¬ 
ors in tie or shirt should be avoided. 
Except for the simplest possible scarf- 
pin, jewelry is not good taste. Full- 
figure pictures of men are rarely good, 
with the possible exception of one in a 
uniform. A man,' even more than a 
woman, must be simply photographed, 
with a natural, unaffected pose and 
expression. 
After all, it is fhe person whose 
picture we want, and clothes, furniture, 
fans, diplomas and other accessories 
are not only unimportant, but often 
distract the attention from the subject. 
A good photographer puts the person¬ 
ality of the individual above every other 
detail, but the sitter should aid him by 
following the rules of simpleness and 
naturalness, which are, after all, only 
those of good taste. 
RAISING CARNATIONS FROM 
SEED 
I once thought that if I had carna¬ 
tions I must get them from the florist. 
At our house we are all very fond of 
the spicy beauties, so I decided to try 
moist. To get bushy plants while in 
the ground, nip the tops off as fast as 
they shoot up. 
At the time of potting for winter, 
the plants are loaded with buds and 
must be handled carefully. I get best 
results when I put them in tin cans, 
each plant then gets just the care it 
needs. If kept in a moderately cool, 
moist room they will bloom all winter. 
The greatest error made in amateur 
carnation culture is keeping the plants 
too warm. An upstairs sleeping room 
is about the right temperature. If too 
warm, the buds will blight and the 
plants become infested with green 
aphis. In this event, moisture and fre¬ 
quent sprinkling are the best remedies. 
From a package of seeds I have 
often raised twenty-five plants, the 
greater portion of them full and double. 
If I do not care to have them blossom 
in the winter I can transfer them to 
the cellar and put in the open ground 
the next season.— Mrs. George Gray. 
A LIFE-GIVING MEASURE 
“What is in the mind of the rural 
woman? She wants to know the physi¬ 
ological aspects of motherhood and to 
bear and bring up her childi*en in an 
atmosphere of enlightened education 
rather than of ignorance and fear.” 
When E. C. Lindeman said this be¬ 
fore an audience of farm women the 
sudden outburst of applause showed 
that he had touched a ffheme very near 
their hearts. 
That education means health, for 
mother and child alike, is the underlying 
principle of the Sheppai'd-Towner act, 
passed by Congress and unwarrantably 
delayed in New York State by legisla¬ 
tive inaction. Eighty-six of every 
thousand babies in the State die in 
their first year and the death-rate is 
~ highest in the country. 
The act will actually save life. There 
is no excuse for sacrificing it to politics. 
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