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Show SXotrating Photographs. Tb" satisfactory mounting of photo graphs is a troublesome operation, ana the following suggestion from a contributor con-tributor to The Outlook may be of assistance assist-ance to amateurs: "I have found a method by which a photograph or engraving en-graving can be mounted on the thinnest paper without curling or wrinkling. H the picture Is a photograph, it should be ironed out smooth with a hot iron and then trimmed. Mix a little gum arabio in hot water so as to make a rather thick mucilage. Place the picture pic-ture on the page in position and mark just inside the corners. Remove the picture and take sonro rf the mucile on a ruling pen and draw a heavy line of mucilage from one point to another, so as to make a line of mucilage all around the place where the picture is to be. As soon as the mucilage is stloky put the picture in place and a book over It to keep it flat When dry, you will have a smooth mount that will not nnrL" |