Photographic printing papers are of two classes—those which are used
in direct sunlight and upon which the image gradually appears, and
those which are similar to plates and which are given a very short
time exposure in artificial light and the picture developed just as we
should a plate. The beginner will probably have more uniform success
with sunlight paper after the simple process of toning and fixing is
learned, although the developing papers are extremely simple to handle
and give better results.
The final step of trimming and mounting the print is too simple to
require explanation.
There are a great many things that might be said about photography,
but in a book of this kind only the most simple facts are stated. If
you become a photographer you will soon learn many of the fine points.
Our negatives should all be kept carefully in labelled envelopes and a
record kept in a book of some kind.
When we really become expert as a photographer, there are many
opportunities to make our hobby pay. The publishers of nearly all the
magazines experience the greatest difficulty in securing the kind of
pictures they wish to reproduce. This is remarkable when so many
people are taking pictures. If one wishes to sell pictures, it is
important to study the class of materials that the magazines use.
Then, if we can secure good results, we can be almost sure of
disposing of some of our work and, in addition to the money, have the
satisfaction of seeing our pictures published.
XIX
OUTDOOR SPORTS FOR GIRLS
What to wear—Confidence—Horseback riding—Tennis—Golf—Camping
A generation ago the girl who joined her brother in his sports would
have been considered a “tom boy,” but in recent years girls have
discovered that with comparatively few exceptions they can join in the
sports and recreations of their brothers and in some cases attain a
remarkable degree of skill.
Girls’ schools have done much to spread this idea. A rational outdoor
costume and a desire to be physically well also has helped “the
outdoor girl” to be regarded as the highest type of womanhood. Only
her grandmother sighs over tanned cheeks and muscular arms.
The girl who is not a good sport is the exception rather than the
rule. Besides, our grandmothers worked at their gardening, which is
out-of-door exercise, and a preventive, as Kipling tells, of the
“hump” we get from having too little to do. He says:
_“The cure for this ill is not to sit still,
Or frowst with a book by the fire,
But to take a large hoe and a shovel also,
And dig till you gently perspire.”_
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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