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Show THE BULLETIN L.c Slilcli Design For Knitted Things Cy RUTH WYETII SPEARS THERE is an amusing story Next Year Will Be Celebrated The Centennial of Photography the mittens and scarf shown here. They were not hand knitted. They were purchased And in His Recently-Publishe- d rather, hurriedly and sent to a Has Not Only Given an young miss who was away at school. She liad wanted something Has Made an Important rather gay and a bit foreign looking to wear for skating and these were perfectly plain and pretty drab. She didnt take her disap By ELMO SCOTT WATSON IN "Photography and the American Scene," Dr. Robert Taft but Authoritative Account of the First 50 Years of Picture-Takin- g Contribution to the Social History of the United States. e Weateru Newspaper Union. Book, JANUARY, 1939, will be the 100th birthday of the greatest boon ever conferred upon the common man in recent years. That benefaction, according to John Richard Green, the historian who made this statement, was photography. Throughout photographys centennial year of 1939 we Americans, who are probably the most picture-minde- d people in the world, will be asking such questions ' as Who was the inventor of photography how was it started who were the pioneers in the field who did most to bring it to its present high stage of development? Fortunately for us the answers to those questions, and many others, are to be found in a book, recently - published which is one of the most important contributions to the social history of the United States that has appeared in recent years. It is Photography and the American A Social History, Scene written by Robert Taft and published by the Macmillan company. pointment lying down, but decided to brighten up that scarf and mitten set and make it speak a foreign language as well! She found the Swedish cross-stitc- h design shown here and copied it in all its gay colors on the ends of the scarf and backs of the mittens. Hand knitted mittens and other knitted things in plain colors may also be decorated with this pert flower pattern. Start at the upper right corner of the large flower and make the cross stitches as at A and B. This flower is a brilliant red, the small flowers bright blue and the stems jade green. Mrs. Spears Sewing NOTE Book 2 Gifts, Novelties and Embroidery has helped thousands of women to use odds and ends of materials and their spare time to make things to sell and to use for gifts and church bazaars. If your home is your hobby you will also want Book 1 SEWING for the Home Decorator. Order by Six years ago Dr. Taft, who as number enclosing 25 cents for each book. If you order both professor of chemistry at the Unibooks, a leaflet on crazypatch versity of Kansas has always quilts with 36 authentic stitches been interested in the history of will be included free. Address photography from a purely techMrs. Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St., nical standpoint, was reading an account of the explorations of Chicago, 111. Gen. John C. Fremont, the Pathfinder of the West. A question arose in his mind as to the first use of photography Taye lassie.it in the exploration of the West COSTS LESS BE-- I and when he sought enlightenCAUSE IT BURNS ment on this point he found a cuBETTER AND rious dearth of information about BLASTS LONGER: it. He then began to accumulate data on the subject. Out of that grew his history of American photography a monumental volume of 546 pages illustrated with more than 300 pictures, a book as distinguished for its lively and readable style as for the scholar-lines- s of the research back of it. Importance of Photography. In the introduction Dr. Taft declares that Green, the historian, can not be far wrong in his Early Irish Menas ter lea Irish monasteries date from the estimate of the importance of photography to the common man. Fifth century. He says: Photography affects the lives of modern individuals so extensively that it is difficult to enumerate all of its uses. In addition to preserving for us the portraits of loved ones, it illustrates our newspapers, our mag"Ludens are a natural azines, our books. It enables the cboice, because they physician to record the inner contribute to your structure of man and thus aids alkaline reserve when in alleviating mans ills. By its you have a cold." means, man has been able to M. SOUTHARD the infinitely small, to exstudy gccfrOrWAbrsa Nnv IM plore the outer reaches of space, to discover planets, and to reveal the structure of atoms. Crime has been detected through its MENTHOL COUGH DROPS agency as readily as have flaws in metal structures. It has recorded the past, educated our A Sermon No man is rocked to Godliness youth and last, but not least, it has given us the most popular in a hammock. T. L. Cuyler. form of amusement ever de1839-188- 9, ed I I Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, and his first daguerreotype camera, which is now in the United States National museum. (Photograph by A. Bogsrdns, New York, 1871.) might wish to use it. Daguerre did not describe his process publicly until August 19, 1839, but already word of the new marvel had been spread through the popular and scientific press of France and England, and the news reached America as early as March, 1839. The editor of the Knickerbocker, a New York magazine, declared that the daguerreotypes exquisite perfection almost transcends the bounds of sober belief. Enters S. F. B. Morse. One of the accounts in an American newspaper (the New York Observer for April 20, 1839) was written by a man who was to play an important part in the development of photography in this country. He was Samuel Finley Breese Morse, destined for fu- - $$ CONSTIPATED? Here la Amaslne Relief for Condltlone Due to Gluggleli Bowele If you think sU tautlna art silk Jut try tins all MaMakla tautln. 8a mild. Uumik rriM fma fnatiuw. InvicomlBf. ictxw MUuua mUaUnd Mine efcaa dek with coimIimi Without RiskSSKK'S'.SrES Wa will lf'Boidrti(liud. mure tba bos to w. ratnnd tho purehaaa That fair. prlta. Col KB Tablet today. QUICK RELIEF FOR ACID INDIGESTION WNU W 47-- 38 May Warn of Di Bordered Kidney Action llodara life with ita hurry oad worry, hrrcnUr habits, Improper catlap tad drinkinc lu nok a txpaaura and In throw heavy strain os the work of lha kidneys. They art apt to batons acid and fail to Alter and aihordhi purl lie Iron the ire-ti- over-tae- ed nae You ay anlTar ntning backtab header he, dll tineas, ctun( up Bight leg peine, (welling fed eonatantly tired, nervous. ell warn eat. Other eigne of kidney or Madder disorder mey be burnlnt, eranty or too frequent urinetlon. Uee Doan'i Pilli. Doin' I help thp kidney to got Hd of nma poieonaue body waeto. They are antieeptie to tho urinary traet and tend lo rrlieve irrlla tioa and the pain It reuere. Many irsio-fi- d people recommend Dwe'e They have bed more than forty yeere of public approval. d pour ncfpMorf Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, the Frenchman, little re- alized how all of those benefits would come from the process, the discovery of which he announced in January, 1839, and which was to immortalize his name in the He was word daguerreotype. a painter of the diorama, a succession of scenes painted on a canvas which was caused to pass slowly before the eyes of the observer. Seeking a way to reproduce scenes upon the canvas without the labor of painting them, Daguerre began a series of experiments to find such a method Then he learned that another Frenchman, Joseph Nice- -' phore Niepce, was engaged in a similar quest. The two men decided to join forces and in 1829 formed a partnership which was to continue for 10 years. Niepce died in 1833 but Daguerre continued his experiments which eventually enabled him to reproduce the most minute details of a scene with an exactitude and h incredible. sharpness That was the characterization of his process by Arago, secretary of the French Academy of Sciences and the most influential French scientist of the time, who was instrumental in securing from his government an annuity of 6,000 francs (later increased to 10,000) for Daguerre and one of In re(.000 for Niepces heirs. turn for this Daguerre was to describe his process publicly and make it available to anyone who well-nig- around S THE HOUSE Cut animal Toast Animals. shapes out of bread with animal cookie cutters. Spread with butter and toast a light golden brown under the broiler. Serve these to the children to eat with their soup. Never Cleaning Strainers. wash a tea strainer or a fine sieve in soapy water. Rinse in clear water always, then there can be no unpleasant flavor when next used. a daguer-rotypis- MJ DEBTS vised." In so far as Dr. Tafts book Is the direct result of his curiosity as to the first use of photography in the exploration of the West, it is especially fitting that two of the finest chapters in it deal with "Photographing the Frontier. The first instance of the use of a camera on a government expedition was when the distinguished artist, John Mix Stanley, accompanied the party which in 1853 began surveying the northern railroad route to the Pacific under the command of Gov. I. I. Stevens of Washington Territory. When Fremont set out upon his expedition in the same year he persuaded S. N. Carvalho of t, Baltimore, an artist and to accompany him. Carvalho wrote a lengthy account of his experiences and one sentence from it is significant of the handicaps under which these pioneer photographers of the frontier worked To make a daguerreotype view generally occupied from one to two hours; the principal part of that time was spent in packing and reloading the animals. Although the Civil war halted government exploring expeditions and therefore expeditionary photography, both were resumed after the war and from that time on the photographer was an important member of the personnel of any exploring party. Outstanding among these photographers were T. H. OSullivan, already well known for his work during the Civil war, and John K. Hillers, who accompanied Maj. J. W. Powell on his historic trip down the Colorado river through the Grand Canyon of Arizona. But the best known of all Western photographers was a man who is still living in New York 95 years young and still keenly interested in photography! William H. Jackson is his name. A native of New York, he went west after the Civil war. He opened a studio in the growing frontier town of Omaha in 1888, but becoming dissatisfied with the sedentary life of a village photographer, fitted up a traveling dark room on a buck-boaand toured the country around Omaha photographing Indians. In 1869 he took a trip along the newly completed Union Pacific railroad and this brought him into contact with Professor F. V. Hayden who was engaged in making one of the United States geological surveys of the West. From that time until 1879 MATIIEW B. BRADY ture fame as the inventor of the telegraph. Morse, who had already achieved fame as a portrait painter, had gone abroad in the summer of 1838 to secure patents in England and France for his telegraph on which he had been working for several years. After securing a French patent, he remained in Paris for several months while negotiating with the Russian government for a contract for his invention and during this time Daguerre made his historic announcement. Morse, who as s portrait painter had experimented, unsuccessfully, with the same idea, was iminterested in the mediately Frenchmans and discovery, sought an interview with the suggestion that if Daguerre would show him his daguerreotypes, Morse would demonstrate his telegraph. Daguerre consented and from this interview grew the story that the Frenchman generously imparted the secret of the new art to the American by whom it was carried across the ocean and successfully introduced into the United States. After examining all of available evidence in regard to the claims made in behalf of Morse and others for the title of the first person to make a successful in the United daguerreotype States, Dr. Taft awards that distinction to D. W. Seager, an Englishman living in New York in 1839. On September 27, Seager made a picture which showed a part of St. Pauls church, the sur electro-magnet- ic . rounding shrubbery and houses, and a corner of the As tor house. The rd First Portrait. The author of "Photography and the American Scene also examines the evidence in an attempt to answer the question Who made the first photographic portrait? That honor has also been claimed for Morse and for Professor John W. Draper who made the famous portrait of his sister. Miss Dorothy Catherine Draper, which has often been reproduced as the first photographic portrait. But according to Dr. Taft, it was not. That honor goes to Alexander S. Wolcott of New York; an instrument maker and manufacturer of dental supplies who became interested in daguer-reotyp-y when his partner, John Johnson, secured a copy of Daguerre's directions for making pictures by his new process. On October 7, 1839, Wolcott made a successful profile portrait of Johnson and this Taft calls the "first. But more important than establishing these historic firsts is the complete story of the development of the various photographic processes which Dr. Tafts book gives not primarily from a technical viewpoint, but from that of social history as he explains. I have endeavored to trace, however imperfectly, the effects of photography upon the social history of America and in turn the effect of social life upon the progress of photography. So in this book we read how Yankee ingenuity soon made the American daguerreotypes superior to those made in any other country and how this first phase of photography reached its zenith in the work of Mathew B. Brady to whose studio came all of the t, as well as great and distinguished foreign visitors, to have their portraits made. Bradys greatest fame, of course, rests upon the work he did in making a pictorial history of the Civil war. Dr. Taft, while giving full credit to him as a photographic historian, also rescues from oblivion the names of many of the operators in his employ who made the photographs credited to Brady, as well as other Civil war photographers. Notable among these were Alexander Gardner and T. H. OSullivan, who in the early morning of July 4, 1863, made the picture of the Battlefield at Gettysburg which was to become famous under the title of "The Harvest of Death. After the era of the daguerreotype came the era of the ambro-typthe tintype, the carte de viste, which Oliver Wendell Holmes once called the social currency, the sentimental 'greenbacks of civilization and the stereoscope, which in its day was found in the parlor of virtually every American home. Then came the day of the cabinet photograph and finally the new era began with the introduction of the sensitive dry plate and the flexible film. All of this, appropriately illustrated, is told in Dr. Taft's book, which in its pages recreates more vividly than has ever before been done the story of American life during the five most picturesque and most interesting decades of its entire history. near-grea- Keeping Apples Whole. Core apples before paring. They are less likely to break. A broad par ing causes much waste because of the rounding surface of the apples. Colorful Salad. When using apples in salad leave the skins on to add a touch of color to the salad. Economy Note. Save all celery tops, wash and dry them and place in the oven, turning them now and then. Store the leaves in an airtight tin. Use them for flavoring soups, ' salads, etc. Use a Handy Clothespin. clothespin to untangle a fringe mop. It takes little time and mop will be as fluffy as when new. Our Presidents A Grant was christened Hiram Ulysses, but through an error on the muster roll at West Point it was changed to Ulysses Simpson. John Tyler was a member of the Confederate congress. Buren was Martin Van shrewd in political intrigue and campaign manipulation, and gained many nicknames. He was variously known as the Little Little Magician, and King Martin the Van, . First. Roosevelt Theodore and Woodrow Wilson were awarded the Nobel peace prize. CHECK YOURSELF FOR THESE COMMON SIGNS OF ACID INDIGESTION W. H. Jackson and his working outfit along the line of the Union Pacific railroad in 1869. Jackson was the official photographer of the Haydeh surveys and in that role did some of his most important photography. He took thousands of pictures of Indians which are interesting historically because they are among the relatively few that were made of the red man before he was forced to live on a reservation and his picturesque native life was greatly modified by contact with the whites. But even more important work was done by Jackson in another field. The Hayden survey of 1871 was in the region now known as Yellowstone National park. In fact, the park probably owes its present status to the Hayden survey of this year, declares the author of Photography and the American Scene and to Jackson It You Have Any of These and Suspect Symptoms Acid Indigestion as the Cause uAlkalisen the Quick, Easy Phillipf Way It the Trouble Persists See your Doctor, Now there is a way to relieve acid with sJmost incredible i.jecd. You simply take 2 of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia 30 minutes alter meals. OR take 2 Phillips Milk of Magnesia Tablets, the exact equivalent. Results are amazing. Often you get relief in a few minutes. Nausea and upset distress disappear. It produces so gas to embarrass you induction" uls and offend others. PHILLIPS MILK OF MAGNESIA IN LIQUID OR TAILET FORM SALT LAKE'S NEWEST HOSTELRY Oar lobby lo delightfully air coaled darlag the auaiawr BMBtha e, 500-pd- d , W. n. 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