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PHOTOS OF THE GARDEN,
COMBINING" TWO" FASCINATING HOBBIES
WHEN YOU ARE FORTY.
HOW TO TAKE CARE OF THE APPEARANCE.
1925
WHERE SHELLEY DIED.
SHABBY BUT ROMANTIC WHITE
STONE HOUSE.”
BY BICKLES WILLSON]
One of the great romantic tragedies of Pred about Casa Magni,
Photography and horticulture are two The woman of forty is by no means hobbies which go well together. Both passée, and provided she takes care of are most fascinating, and the same her appearance she should remain at the world is
।। temperament which makes for success tractive for many years. It is not always in the garden is behind the production on the face that the first signs of a of every technically perfect photo appear. Many women long past their graph
fortieth birthday possess a clear, smooth skin with very few wrinkles. It is at
Horticultural photography is of twoj kinda the pictorial, which includes
shutters, on the very edge of the sen a shabby white stone house, with closel
For the sea is the Gulf of Spezia, whero a century ago Percy Bysshe Shelley was
open-air garden scenes, and the photo the throat that the signs of passing year, drowned with his companion, clutching a
are noticed. Hare there are almost sure, copy of Sophocles. The house is to-day graphy of artistically arranged flowers to be a number of lines and wrinkles, and very much as the Shelleys left it, and indoors; and the "serious" recording the skin around the jaw often angs
as it was described by Leigh, Hunt and of prize blooms and vegetables, and of
Few women pay as much attention to Byron and Trelawney. In its thick
plants of various kinda for scientific the throat as to the face, and it both masonry and heavy shutters, its dark
purposes.
FOCUSSING THE CAMERA. -
The first will interest the average per Bon who does not grow plants for show purposes, and may be done with any kind of camera. If the camera is of
mories.
are to be kept in good condition the stone staircases and secret chambers, it throat needs rather more care. Hassage seems burdened and brooding with me and creatu are generally bestowed on the face, while the throat is left to take care of itself.
MUSCLE MASSAGE:
The sagging of the skin is due to the relaxed state of the muscles, and ordinary.
It is not so easy to remove the signs the single extension type the addition of neglect as to prevent them from appear of a "portrait" attachment, or a suping, but even the most neglected throat plementary lens, will be found useful can be improved, with patience and per when making pictures of single plants. severance. and flower studies, as it will mako it possible to bring the enmera nearer to the subject and thus get a larger image. If the focussing is done by senle, and not on the focussing screen, do not for get, when using the "portrait" attach- ment, to measure the distance between massage will not help to restore their. the lens and the subject, in order toelasticity. Pinching and kneading of the ensure sharp pictare.
muscles will be necessary. Bathe the face ARRANGING CUT BLOOMS.
in hot water, and then smear a good feed When photographing a large numbering cream over it. Starting on either sido of cut blooms indoors it is generally of the chin, gently pinch the fact, work neccssary to use a vase to hold them, ing up the cheeks to the cars. It is best and this will add to the pictorial effect to swear the tips of the fingers with cream if it is the right shape; but when only before beginning to pinch the skin. This two or three blooms are being photo stimolates the muscles which control the graphed the best method of holding sides of the face, and raises the drooping them is to stick the ends of the stems skin. If this is done for ten or twelve in plasticine. If you use long stemmed minutes every day it will make a great flowers-and these nro best for artistic. studies the plasticine need not appear
Improvement to the appearance of the it the photograph, and it will
found face.
To remove lices froin the throst, spongo easy to arrange then in any desired.
the skin with hot water, then dry gently, position.
and while the skin is still warm apply a good feeding eream. For a very thin, wrinkled neck warm oil is excellent. This should be applied at night and the cream added in the morning.
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It had a strange history even before the Shelloys came to live in it. Although owned today by an English lady, it is
THE DIRECTORY cover the notable untenanted for more than half the year events, ports and cities of the Far East, Ergon Siberia, in which You stand out on the famous terrace level Netherlande India
Farpeans resident with the first floor, where Mary Shelley Not only is the Directory as full and complete
each case as it
it can be made, but each Colony, (authoress of “Frankenstein") and Jane Part or Bellement is prefaced by a DESORTe Williams and Clare Clairmont stood TION carefully revised "eson, year, the majority of whion will serve na na aceurate, Hearfully gazing seaward that fatal July, GUIDES FOR THE Tousor, giving aray day while the storm was raging. What in competion with the places, their History
Topography, sta a household 1
The Information in these Descriptions, consiste
of a hundred interesting articles, with facts concisely set out, and comisining statistics of the Txate of each Country, and port, would slona suffice to fill a large volume..
It was into this brilliant circle that scarce a week before the poet had made his oft-described return from bis sea bath, stark-naked like Ariel, oblivious of his clothes. Here he had rushed about in the night awakened from a dream so terrible that it froze the blood of his hearers.
The Book is printed from New Type spackily served for the purpose, and uniformity in very arrangement greatly facilitates refocus.OS.
the Directory gives the CLASSIFIED ASTS Besides the usual Alphabetical List of Prem TRADES and PROFESSIONS at the largar Commercial Centros,
Та
A corner of the ground-foor is now let as a little estaminet- Bal Vedere" the youthful proprietor calls it. And there is actually Caffe Shelley hard by the village of San Terenzo (the Shelley circle always wrote it Sant arenza and ALPHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS in Shelley's editors still 'continus the Blun- the Far East contains the mainos DE OVER der), and there they tell you more. I
20,000, FOREIGNERS, even found an old man who recited for me Quando le voco dolci vaniscono Arranged, with the Initials se well to the Bur- (When soft mices din) and the beautiful names, in strictly "Aphabetical Order, so thad lines on Lerici.
any name can be found instantly,
A plain background is best for this kind of work Perhaps the most useful shade is a neutral grey, but coloured backgrounds may be used effectively with some fowers. If you are using roll
But there are growing to be so many films, however, avoid red or deep yellow. Her hair is also often a source of tourists-, to many tourists to Sax Howers. These will require pan-chroma trouble to the woman who has passed her Tereazo, who gather quantities of the tic plates and a colour filter to do them forties White hair is always beautiful laurel which grows in such profusion be Justice.
Garden scopes and flowers growing when the face is still young and there tourists from Chicago-had shown the and looks most distinguished, especially hind the Casa Magri And one of these smid natural surroundings are is good complexion to set it off. But pidrone of the Caffé Shelley how to mix attractive subjects. They are best taken in a soft light. Strong sunlight gen-greying hair worries a great many women and dispense, borrozza Shelley erally results in harsh contrasts, and If taken in time the fading of the hair can cocktail.a flowers do not photograph well with the be arrested. A little castor oil massaged into the roots of the hair every night will sun shining on them."
years, the
"THE MAPS AND PLANH.
of the principal poriz of the Far Råst have been engraved by one of the most eminent Firma înt Great Britain and are annually corrected macź. brought up to date web
The CHEONTELE Can the notable arenia.
together with the Tarts of all the most import En Treaties concluded with the countring off Eastern Asia, the rarious Customs Tari Trade Regulations, Chambers of Cozmeron, Yet it may be who knows that Scales of Commissions, Consular and Court Shelley would have smiledis smiling Codes, kon
Hongkong Stamps Duties, Riga" grapher who works in the open garden,
Wind is the great enemy of the photo- often arrest the greyness for several now One salutes, genius as one can, in weekend festivals, Tables of Monty, The slightest breeze will cause plants to away and tremble, and as instan- taneous exposures are rarely possible, open-air work should only be attempted on a étill day.
A SOFT NEGATIVE.
Carb should be taken not to carry development too far. If you use a tank
To keep the figure youthful and supple the woman of forty should practise high kicking and bending. This will prevent any ageing stiffness to the figure.
FLINT-KNAPPERS,
INDUSTRY.
for the purpose, reduce the times given ONLY FEW MEN LEFT OF OLD GUN in the table. This will give you a soft. negative suitable for enlarging or direct printing on gaslight paper. If you use plates, and develop them singly in the dish, the same result may be gnt by diluting the developer with twice thea asual quantity of water.
UNUSUAL TOMATO DISHES.
TOMATOES A LA BRETONNÉ,
Ilb. of tomatoes, lib. of onions, 2-3oz of cheese, salt, pepper, breadcrumbs, Soz of margarine.
Choose firm, large tomatoes, remove the stalks and eut each tomato in halves Place these cut-side up in,
Motoring through. Norfolk and Suffolk
of
and other Come coe's own fashion. Perhaps if the author marcal Information.
Prometheus Unbound" had drunk. It is published wi the Office of the "Hans- cocktails he-but this is to enter on a
KONG DART P2218.” speculation as deep as the waters which The Throatories and Descriptions are of qu engulphed his frail yet mighty spirit.
***ZIZI'S" SAD END...
LEOPARD HUNT IN SCHOOL
GARDENS.
An exciting big-game hunt took place the other day, writes i correspondent in in Paris recently when Zizi, a wild Home paper, I turned aside to visit the leopard which has escaped from the flintknappers of Brandon. Only ons Paris Zoo and had been roaming the man could I find at work. The others Bois do Boulogne for four days, was were ill. He told me that at one time found in a school garden and shot by fiat-knapping was a great industry of gendarmes the town, but now there are only five principal workers.
There were sceptics who disbelieved. that the beast ever existed. Self-styled whether the animal would ever be bookmakers even started betting on found. Numerous cartoons appeared in the daily newspapers depicting the leopard as a rabbit or a duck, and Paris revues included scenes of the imaginary. leopard, d
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The flints are exported to Central, Africa, where possession of the old fint lock gun makes the owner rich...
Mining for flints was also a great industry in the neighbourhood. A narrow pit is sunk into the chalk bed
Then came the discovery of the beast. gratin dish or casserole with Joz of and the miner makes à series of small
At 7 o'clock one morning the caretaker: margarine. Place a small piece of mar-galleries or buzzows, garine on each, sprinkle them with salt The kuapper's tools are three simple of a boys school opposite the gendar and pepper, and bake in a moderate forms of hazamer and a chisel, which merie barracks in the Boulevard Launes, oven about 10 minutes or until the have remained practically unchanged for near the Bois de Boulogne, went down tomatoes are soft but not pulp. Mean-centuries. The flint is first broken into He heard a slight noise, and on the to the kitchen to get his shaving water, While peel and parboil the onions, drain convenient size. Flaking" follows bottom step of the staircase saw well; and finish cooking them in a well This consists of "striking off" by care- leopard looking up at him. greased tin in the oven. Buate them, and fully directed blows, when 'soft drain and chop them. Cut
I must say that I did not feel par some of the cheese into very thin allees napping is cutting the dakes ticularly courageous, the caretaker and place a slice on each tomato. Cover ints, each flake yielding two or three see that the animal was even more transversely into sizes required for gun said afterwards, “bat I was relieved to this with the onions, sprinkle them with salt and pepper breadcrumbs and squares of proper dimensions. An expers, frightened than I was The moment he sw me he turned tail and ran out of grated cheese, and re-beat in the oven flaker will make 4,000 to 6,000 fakes for a few minutes. Serve in the dish day and the knapper will finish about the kitchen into the garden and hid in which they were cooked.
8,000 gan flints.
TOMATO CROUTES,
TOMATO SQUEYLER.
under koine shrubbery.
JUMP THROUGH GREENHOUSE
A gardener armed with a pitchfork gavo chase to the animal. The leopard took refuge in a greenhouse, but when the gardener shut the door to make it a prisoner it jumped through the roohinto the garden next door
An excellent luncheon or mapper dish, -215 of tomatoes, I teaspoonful of made mustard, 1 onion, 1 tablespoonful of vinegar, salt, pepper, loz. each of
Half-pint of tomato palp, 2oz. of but grated cheese and finely chopped ham ter, 10% af boiled rice, 20% of Par 1 egg, square or round croûtes of, fried mesan cheese, 1joz. of breadcrumbs, salt, bread; 20% dripping, parsley,
pepper, cayenne, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoonful/The flarm had been given at the Wipe the tomatoes, remove the stalks, of made mustard, the neighbouring gendarmerie sad fise, ex- put the tomatoes into a baking tin dr. Make the tomato pulp as directed in pert shota, armed with revolvers, were casserole with, son of dripping, salt, the recipe for tomato croûtes, rub it quickly on the track of the animal, and pepper, and the minced onion, through a sieve, put it into a pan with which had reached a neighbouring Cover, with gressed paper, or a lid and the grated chews, seasonings, butter, | suburban railway lines bake in a moderate, oren until the rice, and breadcrumbs. Hir" well and The first shot hit the leopard in the vegetables are pulpy, Bub" them stir over the fire until boiling. Cool throat just as it reached the permanent through a sieve and mix them with the slightly, then stir in the benten yolks way. The animal then became danger- mustard, vinegar, ham, and grated of two eggs, mix well, and add the ous and faced its pursuers. As there cheese. Make this hot, season, and reatifly whipped whiten of the eggs light was no prospect of trapping, the beast, move the pan from the fire, stir in the ly to the mixture. Put it into small the gendarmes took careful, aim, fired beaten egg and stir over the fire for a china or fireproof glass ramaquín cases a volley, and Zizi feli dead on the rail- minute or two, then pile the mixture and bake in a fairly hot oven for 18-90 way, on croûtes" of fried brand. Dish on a minutes, or until the souffles are firm | There was one who knew real griel, paper d'oylay on a hot dish and garnish when pressed. Sprinko with "grated Its keeper, who came up Ľ short time with parsley
cherse and serve in the cases as quickly later had nursed the hope that he could (Continued as foot of next Dólumn) as possible.
mwood capture. Zizi
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