Chapter VI (2)

Just after leaving the river there is a stiff climb up Milton Hill, at the summit of which there is a fine panoramic view of the country through which we have passed, and of the region through which we are to ride. We now have a good dirt road with some clay here and there, with down grade and excellent coasts. Keep on Adams Street into Quincy, with a sharp turn to the right after crossing the tracks of the Old Colony Railroad, which brings us to Hancock Street, and there we turn to the left at Washington Street, and follow the street railway track over Quincy Point across the bridge into North Weymouth. Follow Bridge Street, keep to the left at fountain into North Weymouth village, and then to the left by Weymouth draw-bridge to Hingham. Bear to the left at Hingham Station, crossing the bridge past the boat-house, and follow Summer Street, which joins Rockland Street, a direct way to Nantasket, where at the Post-office the road branches. The road to the left from the Post-office takes one to Nantasket Beach. Distance of round trip forty-nine miles.

Any questions in regard to photograph matters will be willingly
answered by the Editor of this column, and we should be glad to
hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions.

PAPERS FOR BEGINNERS, No. 17.

INDEXING AND STORING NEGATIVES.

To save time, trouble, and vexation of spirit one should have his negatives in such order that he can put his hand on the very one he wants at a minute's notice, and unless one forms the habit of indexing and storing his negatives as fast as they are made, his photographic affairs are sure to get into a hopeless tangle.

The easiest and most convenient way which the editor has found for storing negatives is to have a cupboard partitioned off into pigeon-holes large enough to hold 25 negatives each. The pigeon-holes should be 3-1/2 inches in width and 6 inches in height, in which can be conveniently stored 25 4x5 or 5x8 negatives. The negatives are first placed in strong manila envelopes which can be bought of any dealer in photographic supplies at from 25c. to 35c. a 100, according to size. These envelopes are marked on the outside--No. ----, Name ----, Notes ----. Place the negative in the envelope, and in the proper places write the name and number of the picture, and under the heading "Notes" write anything about the picture which you wish to remember in regard to the making, printing, etc., and also the date of taking. Copy the numbers and names of the pictures in a blank-book which will be the negative catalogue. Write nothing in the book but the numbers and names of the negatives. All notes should be made on the envelope containing the negative.

On the edge of each pigeon-hole should be marked the number of negatives which it contains, thus: "1 to 25," "26 to 50," "51 to 75," etc. Such a method of storing one's negatives makes the finding of any one an easy matter.

Some amateurs classify their negatives, putting landscapes, interiors, groups, etc., by themselves, but it is really more simple to number and name them in the order in which they are made, and make a supplementary classified list. Have the general list, and then, as one makes a landscape and wishes to have the names of the landscapes, add it to the classified list in this way: Landscapes--View on Hudson, No. 11. Mall, Central Park, No. 14. A Mountain Road, No. 23, or whatever name and number the negatives may be which comprise your landscapes. Place the figure studies by themselves in a classified list, but make the general list as directed. One remembers almost by instinct the number of a negative he has once placed in his collection.

If one has not a convenient cupboard a wooden soap box fitted with pigeon-holes, which can be done by any ingenious boy or girl, answers every purpose. The box should be fastened to the wall, a tape tied to the negative catalogue, and the tape fastened to the side of the box; then the two will never become separated.

SIR KNIGHT HOWELLS FRECHETTE, No. 55 James St., Ottawa, Canada,
wishes some member living in Washington to exchange a view of the
Capitol for one of the Parliament buildings with him, or, if
preferred, will send any view round Ottawa. He also asks if the
editor would advise the use of combined bath with solio paper. The
combined bath is generally preferred, and if used according to
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This Department is conducted in the interest of Girls and Young
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subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address Editor.

I am so pleased, Katharine and Eleanor, to hear that you are going away on a week's visit--one to the city, and one to the country--and that you are both anticipating a very pleasant time. The date, I understand, is not yet absolutely fixed, but the visit is to be made before long, and you would like to know what to take with you in the way of clothes, and to have all the hints I can give about making such a visit successfully.

Well, we will begin at the beginning. When the note of invitation from your friend arrives, the first thing to do is to answer it, setting the day and the train when she may expect you. She probably mentioned the first in her invitation, and inclosed a time-table so that you might select your train. Having decided on this, keep your engagement. Do not allow a slight inconvenience, or an invitation elsewhere, or a caprice, to let you change your plan. Go when you are expected, and stay as long as you are asked to stay. An invitation usually mentions whether your friend would like you to come for a week, or ten days, or a fortnight, or it may read thus: "Please give us the great pleasure of a visit from you. Come on Friday afternoon and stay until Tuesday," or on "Monday, and help us celebrate Louise's birthday, which occurs on Tuesday; we will hope to keep you with us until Friday." It is very much pleasanter to know for how long you are invited than to have it left uncertain; but when no time is mentioned, one takes it for granted that a week will cover the period of the visit.

By all means, when you can do this easily, take a small trunk for your wardrobe for a week. If not a trunk, then take a large dress-suit case, or one of those handy bags called telescopes, which may be stretched out or compressed as occasion demands. You must not forget that in some places expressage is difficult, though this is probably not the case in any town or village near a railroad. There are localities in our country where luggage is difficult of transportation, and trunks have to wait on the chance of a neighborly lift, but this is understood by those who travel there, and they arrange accordingly. A small trunk gives a girl a chance to carry several pretty waists and skirts, and to dress with greater variety while at her friend's house. But one may pack a great many things in her brother's suit-case.

A girl will find her pretty travelling dress, which at this season is of rough cloth, dark brown or blue by preference, with a thick jacket and a neat little hat, suitable for walking, driving, and sight-seeing while away from home. She must be sure that her boots and gloves are in dainty order, without missing buttons, and, if she chooses, a fur collar or boa and a muff may complete her out-door costume. For use in company, afternoon teas, evenings, little gatherings of friends at dinner, or any fête to which she is invited, a pretty waist of silk or chiffon and a skirt of silk or fine wool will be appropriate. In packing waists use plenty of soft white tissue-paper, so that they will come out uninjured at the journey's end. Your mother will provide you with a simple evening gown, if she thinks it needful, and a girl never looks sweeter than in simple white muslin or in a white gown of some sort. With the white gown must be white shoes, and house gowns of all kinds need dainty foot-gear.

Now, pray forgive me, but when going on a visit never omit your night-gowns, changes of underclothing, stockings and handkerchiefs in abundance. A lady is never unprovided with enough of these essentials. Take your own comb and brush, your tooth-powder, tooth-brush, cold cream, and all the little toilet accessories which you like to have at home. Supply yourself with pins, the common kind and the sheath kind, and have your needle and thread in case of a rent to be mended. Also carry note-paper, stamps, and envelopes, so that you may write to the home people often.

An Appeal for a School-house.

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At this holiday-time every person who reads these lines has it within his or her power to build this school-house. Because, if _you_ get the one subscriber, the house will be built. If you do not, it will not--not now. All depends on you.

Go out and ask your friends about it. Ask them to help you get the subscriber. Your parents and teachers will help you. Ask them to do so. Set your heart on getting this one subscriber. Go to a Sunday-school or church committee, a day school, some well-to-do man or woman who has young persons in the household. Ask the well-to-do neighbor. Relate the merits of the paper, and show a sample copy and Prospectus. We furnish them free. Ask us to do so.

But do more than this. Relate the story of Good Will. Tell the person whom you are asking to subscribe why you want the subscription, and why you want it now. Tell him or her that Good Will Farm, while in Maine, takes boys from any part of the country, and is therefore not a local, but a national enterprise. Say that it is a house for an industrial school that the Order is to build. The Farm is in good hands, and the school itself will be well conducted. Our task is only to put up the building, not to conduct the school. Say that during the last few years--two or three--more than 700 poor boys have applied for admission to Good Will, and had to be refused it for lack of room. These boys were deserving. Say further that if you get the subscription the school will be built, and, by turning a house now used for the school into a dwelling, more boys can be taken--boys of five, six, and seven years of age, who are now homeless, may be given homes, school advantages, and a chance to become useful Christian men.

During the next two weeks will _you_ get this subscription? Talk it up--and get it. The appeal is not made to the Order. It is made to _you_. If you do not wish to cut out the coupon, make a pen one nearly like it, ask us for duplicates, or send on the subscription without a coupon, simply saying that you got it to help the school, and that you want 50 cents of the $2 given to the Fund. Be sure to give the subscription address, and your own name for the Honor Roll.

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More about Garter-snakes.

Some weeks ago I noticed an inquiry by Vincent V. M. Beede whether
or not there is a distinct variety of garter-snake living near or
in the water. In reply to this I will say that I think there is.
Last spring when trying to catch some tadpoles in a small pond, I
saw a large snake swim towards me. Like Sir Vincent, I at first
took it to be a water-adder, but on looking at it a second time I
saw that it was a large, dull-colored garter-snake. A few days
after I was at another pool in the woods and saw at the edge of the
water a similar snake, which was wriggling about in a peculiar way.
I watched it closely, and saw that it was catching and swallowing
tadpoles.

From these observations I am inclined to think that there is a
separate variety of garter-snake. Both snakes were very large and
less brilliantly striped than any I had seen before. Can any one
tell me more on the subject? I should like to see and talk with Sir
Vincent. Does he attend the E. O. High-school? I would like some
correspondents.

EVELYN G. MITCHELL, R.T.F.
EAST ORANGE.

Sir Vincent, who is one of our most popular Table contributors, attends the Centenary Institute at Hackettstown.

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A Pretty Experiment.

The natural colors of a leaf may be easily transferred to paper.
Take a leaf of a tree or shrub, place over it a small piece of
white linen soaked in spirits of nitre, and insert between the
leaves of a heavy book with a sheet of paper to receive the
impression. Lay the book aside for a few days. The leaf will be
found devoid of color, which will have been transferred to the
paper in all the original beauty of tint and outline of leaf.

WILBUR E. CLAYBERGER, R.T.K.

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Another Virgil Version.

In the ROUND TABLE for October 29th Sir Knight Alfred G. Baker
asked about a line from Virgil, "The Poles Resound." The ancients
believed that the earth was flat, and that the sky revolved round
it. On one side of the sky was the north star, and on the other
another star. Therefore the line is translated by, "The sky," not
the earth, "resounds with heavy thunders."

C. F. WHEELER.

This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp and coin
collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question
on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should address
Editor Stamp Department.

So many inquiries come to me regarding value of coins, that I shall give lists of the prices _asked by dealers_ for U. S. coins. These lists will not be reprinted. Collectors will therefore preserve the Numbers containing the same. The prices as quoted are for coins in "fair" condition. For coins in "good," "very good," "fine," and "very fine" condition much larger prices are asked. To begin with the lowest.

HALF-CENTS.--1796, $12; 1797, lettered edge 1802, $2.50 each; 1793, 1795 lettered edge, $1.50 each; all the others from 10c. to 50c. each.

CENTS.--1787, two varieties, 20c., 50c.; 1793, six varieties, $3.50, $5, $8, and upward; 1794, 50c.; 1795, two varieties, 50c., $1; 1796, three varieties, 50c., 75c., $2; 1797, four varieties, 25c., 50c., 75c., $1; 1799 over 98, $7.50; 1799, perfect date, $10; 1801, United, $1; 1804, $4; 1809, $1; 1839 over 36, $3; 1851 over 81, $2; the balance from 5c. to 75c. each, mostly 5c.

SMALL CENTS.--1856, flying eagle, $4. All the others, 5c. or 10c. each.

TWO CENTS.--1873, $1.75. All the others 10c. each.

THREE CENTS (NICKEL).--1877, proofs only, $2.50. All the others 10c. or 15c.

FIVE CENTS (NICKEL).--1877, proofs only, $2.50. All the others 10c. or 15c.

THREE CENTS (SILVER)--From 1863 to 1873 inclusive, 75c. to $1 each. All the others 10c. each.

FIVE CENTS (SILVER).--1802, $250; 1805, $7.50; 1860, no arrow, $5; 1794, 1801, 1846, $2.50 each; 1795, 1796, 1797, 1800, 1803, $1 to $2 each. The others from 10c. to 30c. each.

DIMES.--1804, $25; 1796 to 1803, inclusive, and 1822, from $2 to $3 each; 1809, 1846, $1 each. The others from 15c. to 50c. each.

TWENTY CENTS.--1875, 40c.; 1876, 50c.; 1877, 1878, $3 each.

M. R. GAUSE.--The four coins are common, and worth face value only.
You failed to give your address.

M. HALE.--The 1839 cent struck over 1836 is sold by dealers at $3.
The regular 1839 has no premium. The other coins are sold at 10c.
each.

MRS. A. M. R.--I cannot give addresses of dealers in this column.
Ordinary current stamps have little value. Ten million of the
present 2c. red are used every day.

CORPORAL P. CONN.--Dealers ask from 15c. to 40c. according to
condition.

A. L. CHURCHMAN.--Dealers ask 5c.

R. HITCHENS.--Dealers do not pay premiums at present on any
Columbians except the dollar values.

Z. C. FRICK.--Dealers ask 5c. each for the coins mentioned.

DUBUQUE, IOWA.--(No name signed to inquiry).--The 1795 dollar,
lettered edge, is worth $3.50. The other coins about twice face
value. Confederate paper money, as a rule, has no value. U.S.
fractional currency in good fresh condition is worth twice face. If
dirty or crumpled it has no premium value.

J. HALL.--Yes. Stamps catalogued at $2 each, or over, are disposed
of to best advantage by auction. Common stamps catalogued from 1c.
to 50c. each, do not as a rule bring anything like their value at
auction.

L. RICHARDSON.--Dealers charge $50 for the 1852 dollar. If yours is
in good condition, a dealer might buy it for $25 or $30. If the
date is not clear, or the coin is badly worn, it is not worth so
much.

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THE BEAR (_at rehearsal_). "SEE HERE, DOROTHY, WHEN I BEGIN TO DEVOUR YOU IN THE CHRISTMAS PERFORMANCE, YOU OUGHT TO BE AWFUL SCART, INSTEAD OF GIGGLING."

DOROTHY. "BUT YOU MAKE ME GIGGLE, YOUR WHISKERS TICKLE ME SO."]

A WREATH OF CHRISTMAS SMILES.

BY CODDLES AND TODDLES.

C. (1 A.M.). "Is it raining out, Tod?"

T. "Raining! No; it's snowing hard."

C. "I don't think Santa Claus will come, then, 'cause papa said he uses _reindeers_ only to pull his sleigh."

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T. (2 A.M.). "Cod, I wonder why Santa Claus only comes at night!"

C. "I guess it's because he doesn't want to make his _presents_ known."

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C. (3 A.M.). "Say, Tod, wake up! I thought you said you were not going to sleep till Santa Claus came."

T. "I didn't go to sleep. I only forgot I was awake."

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T. (4 A.M.). "Santa Claus is so long in coming, I think he's mistaken us for somebody he's left presents with."

C. "Probably he's had a _misgiving_, and left them with somebody else."

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C. (5 A.M.). "Tod, did you hear that crash?"

T. "No; what was it?"

C. "The day breaking through the window."

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T. (6 A.M.). "I wonder what time it is, Cod?"

C. "Don't know; it's so cold, I guess the clock's frozen."

T. "Ha! ha! don't you know a clock has a running spring, and that never freezes?"

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C. (7 A.M.). "I wonder where Santa Claus learned to come down chimneys?"

T. "That's easy. He took lessons off that camel that went through the eye of a needle."

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T. (8 A.M.). "Look here, Cod, you shouldn't have eaten all little Ethel's buckwheat cakes like that. Mamma's awful angry."

C. "Well, I only did what papa told me, and that was to always take her part."

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C. (9 A.M.). "Papa, did Santa Claus ever go to school?"

Papa. "I guess so."

T. "I don't think he had to study hard, 'cause he was a _gifted_ scholar before he went."

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T. (10 A.M.). "I wonder why Santa Claus gave me this rocking-horse?"

C. "What is the matter with the horse?"

T. "Why, you know all horses have to be broken before they are ridden, and if I break this one, I don't see how I can use him."

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C. (11 A.M.). "I am going to have lots of fights with the bicycle Santa Claus gave me."

T. "What's wrong about it?"

C. "Oh, I'll have to give it a blowing up every now and then."

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T. (12 M., _in a whisper_). "Cod, that turkey looks fine, doesn't it? Ain't you afraid that when he goes to the next world he'll haunt you?"

C. "No. Turkeys have their _necks twirled_ in this."

* * * * *

C. (1 P.M.). "Say, Tod, this plum-pudding reminds me of a river with a dam in it."

T. "Why?"

C. "Oh, because the currants are all stemmed."

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T. (2 P.M.). "Cod, mamma said she is sorry she bought the Christmas turkey for dinner."

C. "Did she?"

T. "Yes; mamma said we developed into such fine _turkey gobblers_ that we might have been used instead."

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C. (3 P.M.). "Papa, Dan couldn't pull this sleigh if he didn't have legs, could he?"

Papa. "No, of course not."

C. "Everything that runs has to have legs."

T. "Oh no, they don't. The runners of this sleigh haven't any legs."

* * * * *

T. (4 P.M.). "Did you ever see any peddlers in the Park, papa? Cod says there's lots of them."

Papa. "I never noticed any."

C. "Oh yes, papa! there are scores of bicycle-pedallers here every day."

* * * * *

C. (5 P.M.). "Did you know even old Father Time made us a Christmas gift of an hour to-day."

T. "What hour is that, Tod?"

C. "Why, the _present_ one."

* * * * *

T. (6 P.M.). "You'd better look out for those turkey patties, Tod. They're dangerous, and might go off."

C. "What's the matter with them?"

T. "They're full of _fowl in pieces_."

* * * * *

C. (7 P.M.). "Do you know why Santa Claus is like the weather to-day?"

T. "No."

C. "Because he was _dew_ this morning and is _mist_ to-night."

* * * * *

T. (8 P.M.) "Cod, look! that Christmas tree is so heavily loaded with presents I'm afraid it will sink through the floor."

C. "Papa will start the candles on it in a minute, and then it will grow much lighter."

* * * * *

C. (9 P.M.). "That little girl over there borrowed a face to come to our party to-night."

T. "What makes you think that?"

C. "I heard mamma say she had her father's eyes and her mother's nose and chin."

* * * * *

T. (10 P.M.). "We've taken pains to eat so many good things to-day, I guess we'll have to do without to-morrow."

C. "Oh, we'll get something to-morrow for our pains."

* * * * *

C. (11 P.M.). "Mamma, Time takes wings on Christmas day like butterflies on hot cakes. Can't you stop the clock for an hour?"

Mamma. "Why don't you ask papa?"

C. "'Cause you told me time stops for no man."

* * * * *

T. (12 M.). "Good-night, papa; we're tucked in all right."

Papa. "Now, boys, go to sleep."

C. "We're going to. Uncle Jack said there'd be a big war in us when the turkey and plum-pudding discovered each other, and so we're going to rest before the fight."

End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, December 17, 1895, by Various