HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-08-20, Page 3THURS., AUG. 20, 1936
CLINTON NEWS-RECORfl
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WIIAT CLINTON WAS DOING IN. THE
GAY NINETIES
Do You Remember What Happened During The Last
Decade Of The Old Century?
From The News -Record, Aug 19th,
1896:
Last Friday Salesman James Con-
nolly shipped fawn Clinton the last
half of July's make of Holmesville
cheese, comprising „some 130 boxes.
The lot was purchased by Hibbert of
Montreal and the price -seven and one
eighth cents per pound.
Gardener Allenson has many" to-
matoes twenty inches in circumfer-
ence and yesterday presented The
News -Record witha large .basket of
them, (Nothing as nice as this hap-
pens nowadays. -Ed.) •
The Clinton Horticultural Society
will hold its first exhibition. in the
Old Sol was . a thorough scorcher
wasn't he?
Theother day Mr. Cornish of the
Base Line met with, a heavy loss,
when his team was assisting a neigh-
bor to harvest and one of the horses
accidentally went through a trap
door, breaking its neck. The animal
was a particularly fine one, belonging
to his prize team, for which he had
refused $500.
Goderich Town`ship:-The other day
a colt belonging to Lindsay Bros. of
the 16th concession met its death by
jumping out of a barn door on the
Coyle farm, breaking its back.
Mr. Levi Trick bas rented the Weir
farm, 15th con. for a term of years.
,Agricultural Hall here on Aug. 25- Mr. Lawrence, at present living on
26-27 ... Because The News -Record the Huron road, has rented the house
could not see its way clear to become from Mr. Trick and Will find it very
convenient to his school.
a member one of the officers declared
a boycott of this paper and so far it
has been carried out. However,,
while we wish the society every suc-
cess we might add if this rule is to be
adopted and carried out such a worthy
institution as the Horticultural So-
ciety is certain not to meet with the
success it deserves.
When The Present Century
Was Young
From The News -Record, Aug. 17th,
1911:
A farmer near Clinton is respon- Miss Barbara McIver is spending
sible for the statement that his 200- her holidays at Bayfield..
acre farm was recently covered with It must be confessed that Huron
hail stones as big as hens eggs and
County is doing a noble share at tak-
ing off the abundant harvest in the
es foot thick.
We exceedingly regret Lite removal west. The following at least have
gone on the harvest excursion: John
from town of such good citizens as Spencer, H. Atwood, W. McDowell,
Mrs. Rye and Miss Rye, who leave Geo. King, S. McEwan, 'J. C. Henry,
Goderich this morning for Sault Ste. Frank Forrester, H. Fawcett, J. Pic
Marie. Nett, A. A. Dempsey, 0. Miller, G.
Last Monday Messrs. W. Brydone, Carter,Earl Lawson, W. H. Wiltse,
G. D. McTaggart, W. Jackson and W. W. Robinson, C. Miller, Martin
Taylor left for Niagara -on -the -lake Young, J. McCullough, W. Colclough,
where they will take part in the Pro- O'Donnell, Jr., Murray Draper, F. J.
vincial Bowling Tournament . Davidson and M. Moore. .
The general public have long since Mr. area Airs. Herb. Alexander re -
come to the conclusion that editors of turned home Saturday after a seven
newspapers have a "fat" time ... Of 'weeks' trip to the west.
the editors in Huron we do not know Mrs. Oliver Johnson and Masters
many of then to be supremely happy, Oliver and Earl visited at Zurich for
contented or fleshy looking, with thea couple of days the beginning of the
exception of the editor of the Blyth I week.
Mr. and. Mrs. W. Clucas and three
children of Louisville; M.O., have been
visiting the lady's brother, Mr. W D.
Fair, and other friends in town.
Messrs. Harry Fremlin and A. F.-
Cudmore are delegate and alternate
respectively, of Court Prosperity, A.
0.F. to the High Court meeting in
Peterborough next week,
Mrs. (Dr.) Jackson and little son
then there is Dan McGillicuddy os returned Saturday from a visit with
Goderich, who lives on the bank of friends in Kincardine and Paisley.
the Huron, rides a bike and refuses They left the 'following Thursday
to take advantage of Nature's' offer- for Toronto where they will spend
rugs. James Twitehell of The Star a few days before going north to
walks and is also thin and spare. M. Midland, where they will be guests
Y. McLean of Seaforth continues as at the home of Mr. C. B. Adair: They
lean and lank as ever and the Sun were accompanied by Mrs. Jackson's
man, Neeljn, so thin that he is prob. mother, Mrs: E. W. Rodaway,
ably beyond ,redemption. The news-
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paper men of Huron are on the whole From The New Era, Aug. 17th, 1911:
lean and gaunt and . require a 'little
Standard, who was . married a few
days ago ... Take the mayor of
Clinton for example, a gentleman liv-
ing in luxury and the chief magis-
trate of a progressive town — lean
and lanky. and poorly fed, to outward
appearance, and still he enjoysa good.
meal and the delicacies of the season
as palatably as the best of us hungry
mortals 'but he 'fails to put on flesh,
back i home for publication in the, great
home newspaper. They are more pro-
ficient, we are told, in. Florida,
—St, Catharines Standard.
FAIR SER BEACHING OUT
For nearly a century and a half the
wife of every U.S.President has been
asked to .present one of her full, dress
g•rowns to the Smithsonion Institute
at Washington. The collection shows
that the first ladies in that land are'
getting taller and the sane thing is
probably true of the fair sex gener-
ally.' They are,reaching out longitud-
inally as well as in every other direct -
tion." --Brantford Expositor:
THEY HAD THEIR DIP
Four passengers of the steamer.
Georgian narrowlynissed being left
here on Sunday. They were enjoying
a dip in the lake and forgot about
sailing thee, but realized their plight
when the ship moved slowly from the
dock. They hastily boarded. the
Captain John,local launch, and .set
out in pursuit, but the, - Georgian
warped into the pier to take them on.
The Seaway Lines steamer Geor-
gian.has been doing a good business
this season, having capacity passen-
ger lists on every trip so far.
—Goderich Signal.
THREE DAY CANOE TRIP
TO RAILWAY
Back home among friends and 'rela-
tives, after a. trip of several days
Mrs. (Rev.) A. C. Huston is renew-
ing
enewing acquaintances in Huron township.
With her husband she is stationed at
Nelson House mission, Manitoba,' in
the north-west corner of the province.
To make a trip home she had to
travel for three days by canoe and
portage .to reach the railway which
brought her to Kincardine. Her hus-
band is a Pine River district native
and a nephew of Mr. Alfred Huston,
at whose home and that of Mrs. J. E,
Robertson•, Bruce Beach Mrs. Huston
is visiting. She plans to spend some
time here before returning to the
north west.
—Kincardine Review -Reporter.
BOY SOLVES PROBLEM
A. huge Holstein bull charging
through the neighborhood threw resi-
dents of Listowel living in the CN.
R. district into frenzy on Monday as
it tore down fences, trampled gar-
dens and left a path of destruction
behind as men fought desperately to
capture itbefore any casualties re-
sulted. The big brute escaped from
the C. N. R. stockyards to make its
bid for freedom and sent • pedestrians
into a frenzy as they made a wild
dash for verandahs and protection.
When it was impossible for the would-
be capturers to advance near the ani-
mal the local police department was
called to shoot it but before the chief
and his assistant could reach the
scene a boy, whose name could not
be ascertained, thought of the bril-
liant idea of driving a herd of cattle
past the place where the bull had tak-
en its stand. Upon seeing the cattle
pass by the ferocious animal walked
calmly out and took its place in the
herd where it was driven back to the
stock yards and its gallant fight for
freedom ended.—Listowel Standard.
rest from active labor. Mr. V. M. Diehl of Stanley town-
ship had a colt born on his farm the
other day with only three legs. It is
From The New Era, Aug. 21st, 1896: perfectly sound in every way and is
Mr. John Jowett of Bayfield,_ the doing well..
well known cyclist, has bought a Dr. J. M. Field, P.S.I. for East Hu -
handsome 'Brantford racing wheel ron, returned to Goderich from To
from. Mr. Emerson of town. I ;•onto, where he had been visiting
The handsome residence of Mr. S. some weeks. ' While there he sustain -
Davis, Rattenbury street, having been' ed a distressing accident, when he had
bought as a parsonage for the Rat- both bones of his right wrist fractur-
tenbury street congregation, Mr. Da -1 ed while cranking his car.
vis has commenced the erection of ai Messrs. J. McNaughton .and Beat -
new house on the South side of Hu-, tie Bros. of Varna and D. A. Forres-
ron, street, west, - ter, of Clinton delivered some good
The back of the hot spell is broken. l cattle to Mr. T. Mason last Saturday.
The, Propaganda Game
(T. CO
WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS 'ARE SAYING
VANDALS
We know of a raspberry patch that
supplied four families.. This year ev-
ery berry was gathered by city thie-
ves on Sunday afternoon when the
owners were at church.' Grave faced
authority insists that this sort of
thing is all right. If however, the
owners of these berries'should rob a
fruit stand or the pantry of one of
the berry thieves there would be stiff
fines handed out.
Exeter Times -Advocate.
it
THOSE ROLLIN' HOMES
Trailers are becoming - not only
more common but more elaborate.
Some resemble an apartment house,
with two couches. which open out to
make double beds and a dining table
between them, a kitchen sink, china
cupboard,' mirrors, an electric refrig-
erator, radio, gasoline stove, bath-
room, screened windows and ventilat-
ors. Factories are now turning out
trailers by the thousands, so those
who would cater to the tourist traffic
can see what they- are up against.
—Hanover Post.
IiILDRHN
DEER LIKES CHILDREN
A tame deer which` has been given
considerable publicity evidently visit-
ed the folks at the like near the cot-
tage of Mr, Albert Hess just north
of St. Joseph,' It seems the deer likes
children better than adults, as it
would lick the sugar off the hands of
the children but adults could' not get
so close.—Zurich Herald.
YES, AND ANOTHER TO WATCH
'EM BOTH
The Sault Daily Star says that ev-
ery fire -builder and smoker in . the
woods should carry a bush permit
containing a signed pledge to carry
out definite instructions for fire pre-
vention. And probablyshould have
someone at his elbow pledged to see
that he does. --:-Toronto Star.
CURRENT HISTORY
Boys and girls are not sport and
movie addicts by inclination. They
have an insatiable desire for know-
ledge; and in no better way can that
desire be directed than by getting
them interested in present-day his-
tory. The daily newspaper might
well be included in the list of text
books.—Owen Sound Times.
Propaganda campaigns
Are now much in evidence
And the editors
Of our newspapers
Are the victims.
They are beseiged
From morning until night,
With requests '
For free publicity .—
First for one thing
Then for another,
But all to make money
For some interests
For which'
These campaigns are organized.
We wonder
If the promoters •ever think
What is to sustain a newspaper
If it gives away its space
For nothing?
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> THE OLD THIRD READER
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By Francis Tyner Knowles
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- WHEAT OR NEWSPAPERS
Recentlywe read in some paper
(probably the Walkerton Herald
Times, though we haven't got it at
hand just now), a little fable that
may be worth passing on.
It seems that a farmer had a
dream. He was raising a beautiful
crop of some special- wheat for seed
purposes, and he dreamed that
he had two thousand bushels of
good wheat when it was all threshed.
He sold it for $1.50 a bushel and was
very happy, for with the $3,000 he
could pay off his hired help, settle up
for the binder he had bought. and sup-
plies he had needed, and still have
something' left for himself.
Then the dream took another turn.
He thought that he had to sell the
wheat to two thousand persons, each
of whom owed him $1.50, but he had
to collect from each One, and someof
them gave him the cash, but others
delayed for months and it looked as
if some would not pay for years, and
some he knew he could never: collect
from at all. And so he couldn't pay
all his bills and he had nothing left
over for himself but promises to pay.
The dream troubled the farmer
when he awoke and he wondered what
it meant. It was not until his weekly
paper came on Thursday that he re-
membered that he hadn't' paid his
subscription—that the editor was the
man who had to, sell his product to
two thousand readers . at " 1.50 each,
and that when some of them didn't.
pay, his troubles multiplied.
And so, of course, the farmer hied
himself to town and paid his sub-
scription.
—Fergus News -Record.
The following was written in 1909
and published in the Canadian Mag-
azine, and hi January •of this year
reproduced by T. Wilbur Best, presi-
dent of The Ontario Publishing, Co.
"The Third Reader" is one of the
books "bound in a dull, red, coarse,
supposedly cloth 'cover," that bore a
crest carrying the words, "authorized
by the Minister of Education, etc."
Here is the article:
A quarter' of a century has gone
by since the old Ontario readers were
troduced into the schools of the
NO PICTURE FISH •
The writer of these notes has dies
covered a lack of enterprise in the
Penetang district.' There is no place
where one may hire a big muskie
with which .to be photographed at the
price of $2, the picture to be sent
"The'rnehcape Rock" a number of
men in a boat setting out to cut
cicwn the warning bell It took no
second sight to tell what their finish
would be
Being now fully assured of the in-
evitableness of the disaster by water,
we entered on: a Complete Course of
Land Catastrophe: We were to learn
that the field of battle was, in its way,
as fatal as the treacherous wave. In
"The French at Ratisborn," we watch-
ed.a young soldier ride out "twist the
battery -smokes," and "full gallop-
ing," bear a momentous message to
Napoleon. , A moment 'later- "his
chief beside, smiling the boy fell
dead:" Next came "Zlobane", the
record of two deaths in battle. with
the Zulus: -
"Then covered with uncounted wounds
• He sank beside his child;
And they who saw them, saw in death
Each on the other smiled."
"Somebody's Darling" was the next
to perish, and dear to the hearts of BLYTH: A vacancy in the Morris
Third Reader girls were the lines: Township Council, caused by the
deatbyh of Joameshna'A. Brown,whis to be
"Into'a ward of the white -washed' led JPhelan, o was elect311-
=
walls � ed by 'acclamation. Robert Wallace,
Wounded by bayonets, shells." and was nominated, but withdrew.
Where the dead and dying lay, '
balls, I SEAFORTH: The engagement isr•
Somebody's darling was born one anonnced of Mary Louisa, only-
day. daughter of Mrs. Flett of Seaforth
Somebody's darling so young and so
brave,
Wearing yet on his pale, sweet
face,
Soon to be hid by the dust of the
grave, •
The lingering light of his boyhood's
grace."
Ah!—but that was a favourite reci-
tation of a Friday afternoon in the ing. Mr. Icing was holidaying at
old days! Myself have recited it his cottage.. at Bruce Beach when her•
some thirty times with great effect. was seized with a heart attack on-
"Home They Brought Her Warrior Aug, 6. The following Sunday morn-. •
Dead", confirmed us in our opinion in he had another seizure at his
of the dangerous nature of war, and, home here. The deceased was born:
when page 207 carne in sight, it was
at McIntyre, near Collin wood, and
no surprise to us to learn that" A lived in Bluevale for a short tune;.,.
soldier of the Legion lay dying at corning to .Wingham with his parents;.
Algiers." We were gloomy -hearted forty-nine years ago. His father op-
Iittle pessimists by now. ` Every lit- erated a departmental store here,.
erary character we knew was either and on his death, twenty-nine years
dead or•'dying, and not even the rich ago,' the business was conducted by
sentimentalism. of Bingen on the Mr Ring and his brother Robert, nn -
Rhine" could rouse us to emotional til twelve years ago when Robert.
activity: . I went to Toronto, since that time the.
"His voice grew hoarse and fainter ;deceased has carred on the business_
hi gasp was childish weals Mr. King for many years was on the
His eyes put on a dying look; he• board of the Wingham General Hos-
sighed and ceased to speak." pital, and for some time on the Wing -
i ham High School Board. ire was
That was sad—but quite, quite right Chairman of both boards at the time+•
we felt, We diel not wonder that: { of his death. He was a member of
"The soft moon rose up slowly and St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church,
calmly she Laroseoked down 1 being an elder, and Was for fifteen
On the red sand of the - battlefield years Secretary of the Board of
with bloody corpses strewn, Managers. He was a member of
l Wingham Lodge A.F. & A.M. and the
The most calloused, however, could C.0 0.F. Surviving, besides his wi-
not but be roused a little by the splen-, dow, are two daughters and one son.
did ring and swing of "The ]3urial at -
Sir John Moore":
Calmly—why not? We could not.,
have excited ourselves:
"We buried him darkly at dead of
aright,
The sods with our bayonets turn-
ing,
By the struggling moonbeams mister
light
And the lantern dimly burning.
Slowly and sadly we laid hire down
From the field of his fame fresh/,
and gory;
We carved not a line and we raised:
not a stone
(Continued on page 7)
NEWS OF HAPPENINGS'
1N- THE COUNTY AND
DISTRICT
and the late William James Flett, of
Grimsby, to James Brown Higgins, of
Sudbury, only son of Mr..and Mrs..
William, Higgins of Bayfield, Ontar- • -
io. The marriage to take place earlp
in September.
WINGHAM: Thomas Cameron -
King of Wingham, died at his home •
in his fifty-third year Friday even --
that "came on before its time," was
drowned in the river "a furlong from
their door." There was the "Poor
Little Match-Girll" who died in the
snow with all her burnt matches be-
side her and "soared far, far away
where there was no longer any cold
or hunger orpain—she was in Para-
dise." The "Sands o' Dee," we scarce-
ly understood, but it also seemed to
end in fatality, for:
"They rowed her in across the rolling
foam,
Province. After a long and strenuous. To her grave beside the sea."
career they have been discarded. We were now becoming calloused,
Something newer has taken their and these dreaded events had ceased
place and it is generally supposed to startle. It hardly shocked us when,
that something newer nnist be some- in Lesson XV, our boy acquaintance,
• Prince Arthur, met with his untimely
end: :`He knelt to there and prayed
them not to murder him. Deaf to his
entreaties they stabbed him and sank
his body in the river with heavy
stones." Terrible -to be sure -but to
be expected in the Third Reader.
In "We Are Seven," only two out
of the seven succumbed, and we were
almost bored by the uneventfulness of
the narrative. °
The "Wreck,of the Hesperus" put
us again in touch with disaster by
ed to the use of children? May it water. It was our sixth illustration
not be that, to the forceful melan- of the dangers of the deep, but in no
eholoy of his temperament, we owe way similar to 'the preceding five.
much of +whatever pessimism darkens We viewed the frozen body of the
our own? ' Let us go back, ten, or father "lashed to the helm all stiff
fifteen, or twenty years, to the days and stark and with his face turned to
when we waded through those moody, the skies" and the "form of a maiden
yet sensational pages, and call to fair lashed close to a drifting mast,"
Leung better.
In the case of the old Third Read-
er, at least, this supposition cannot
but be correct. Who was the un-
happy being, it has often been asked
who dominated the choice of selec-
tions for that mournful volume?
From what form of melancholia did.
he suffer?. With what ideals of
martyrdom washe imbued? What
dark purpose slid he hold before him-
self, in electing to fill the tales of
tragedy and daeth, a volume dedicat-
mind their blighting effects on our
then unclouded minds.
What a tlu'ill we had when, after
the mild insipidities of the Second
Reader, we were introduced to the
first lesson in the Third, where the
White Ship, "manned by fifty sailors
of renown," set sail for England. We
saw the brave ship tossing wildly on
the waves, but did not tremble for
her safety. In the former reader all
narratives had ended tamely, and long
immunity had created in us a sense
of security. We dreamt not of pening•s came the "Wreck of the Hes-
impending disaster. How horrid then pelas:' with its new images of es -
was our surprise, when the crash ror•
came and a "terrific cry broke from
three hundred hearts :for' the White
Ship was filling, was going down
and of all that brilliant company the
poor butcher of Rouen alone was
saved? Two hundred and ninety-
nine lives! It took, our infant breath
away. It stopped our childish heart-
beats—for a second.
We turned, however, with theop-
timism of early childhood to the se-
cond selection. Casabianca stood then
as now upon the burning deck, but
till : we arrived at stanza nine, we
guessed not at, his insistence upon
that hackneyed stand -point:
"There came one burst of thunder,
sound; '
The boy—Oh- Where was he?"
He too—that gallant •child --was' lost
in the waves•
and we were ready enough, to ejacu-
late with the narrator:
"Oh! Save us all front death like this,
On the reef of Norman's woe!"
We had now good reason to feel that
it was dangerous to be afloat very
much on Third Reader waters. The
two hundred and ninety-nine in the
White Ship, Casabianca, Lucy Gray,
Mary, who called the cattle home a-
cross the Sands o' Dee and Prince Ar-
thur had all found a watery grave;
and now, on top of these dire hap -
JOHN McGINNIS' CAT
COMES HOME AGAIN
John McGinnis, Kincardine, has a
eat which might well be matched with
a homing pigeon any time. He gave
it to an Owen Sound man, who took
the animal home, some fifty :miles
away. `
A few days later the eat was back
in Kincardine at Mr. McGinnis's
home.
Then it was sent to Southampton
to find a new home, but,• again pre-
ferring the old, came back and at
last reports was still there,
"The Heroic Serf" seemed to be of
an original turn of mind, and escap-
ed the usual watery ending by throw
ing himself to the wolves. Thisact
of forethought in no way detracts
from his heroism, which was on a
really high order..
"Hannah Binding Shoes" is mourn-
ing incessantly the loss of Ben, "the
sunburnt fisher," who ' was drowned
twenty years ago. "Still her dim eyes
silently chase the white sails o'er the
sea." She hopes, poor soul, that Ben
will yet return. In the Third Reader
none returneth from the mighty deep.
On page 110, is a -selection called
"The Rapid," we found a boatfull of
rowers gaily gliding down a river,,
singing as they went. The unfortun-
ate young fellows rowed for only
three stanzas. In the fourth, the
line, "Yon rock—see it frowning,: they
"With mast and helm and pennon fair strike—they are,drowning" assured.
That well had borne their part, us, if assurance had been necessary
of this mournful ending.
Page 127 brought us to "Lord 111-
lin's Daughter." The run -away cou-
ple were being rowed "o'er the ferry"
while the father gesticulated from the
shore.
'Twas vain! (of course) The wild
Waves lashed the shore,
Return or aid preventing—
The waves wild went o'er his child
(also)
And he (like everyone else) was left
lamenting."
But the noblest thing that perished.
there
Was that young faithful heart."
I think Casabianca was good for us,
however, and that much of whatever
heroism stirs ' in the blood of young
Canada, . coins from contemplation
of that "proud though childlike form"
which stands forever "beautiful and
bright" in the background of our
memory. •
Some uneventful lessons now oc-
curred; then closely following one
another, came. tragedy after tragedy.
There was little Lucy Gray, "the Our weary souls turned from con -
sweetest -child that ever played beside templation of the picture illustrating
eSNAPSNOT CU1L
Attend to Your Shadow Contrasts
Strong shadow contrasts, plus
foreground objects and a fore-
ground "frame," ail combine to
give these pictures depth and
perspective.
.dr f ./
WHAT makes some pictures
seem real enough to walk
right into, while others appearto
be little more than a design bre a
Sat wall?
The thing that makes, the dif-
ference is that quality in a pic-
ture, variously called "perspective,"
"depth," or "third dimension effect,"
that puts objects in relief so that
they appear solid, and makes it Pos-
sible correctly to perceive their
relative size and position.
•In photography, this quality of
reality is created chiefly by proper
attention to contrasts in lights and
shadows. Remember that to achieve
reality in a painting, the artist cre-
ates light and shadow contrasts, but
that'in nature such contrasts do not
always come ready made. They must
be looked for. In nature what often
seems a good picture to the eye is not
a good picture for the camera lens,
because of the absence of contrasts.
The eye is aided by our imagination
but not so the lens. In the print; the
scene may turn out Rat and 'unin
teresting,; especially if we try to in
elude the whole country side in the
picture.
Hence, to get perspective, pay at,
teistion to light and shadow con-
trasts, Look for vantage points that
best reveal them. Usually the longer
and more sharply defined the shad-
ows the greater is the third dimen•
clonal effect and the appearance of
reality, of objects depicted. In out-
door photography there is value in
taking pictures when the sun is low,
• because then shadows are long and
accentuate the perspective. Always
remember, too, the Photographer's
maxim: "Expose for the shadows and
the high lights will take care of
themselves." That, however, does not
mean always to expose for a very
deep shadow, but, in general, to ex- -
pose to record detail in the inter-
mediate shadows.
Another way to accentuate depth
in a photograph, especially in scenic•
views, is to include a distinctive -
foreground object, which emphasizes:
the diminished size of objects in the
distance; thus creating "depth." A
human figure or tree, in the fore-
ground at the right or left, will often
serve the purpose and at the same •
time add interest.
Another way is to.choose a vantage -
point which will give the picture a ..
foreground "frame." Such a frame
often serves where long shadows and
distinctive foreground objects are
absent. Foreground trees with lacy
overhanging boughs are splendidly
useful as frames. They are full, of
beauty in themselves, and, if in the
print they show completely in sil-
houette, that is to say, in dark out-
line without interior detail, the effect
is often all the better. Everything •
beyond is accented by the dark tone •
that strikes its deep note in front.
Similarly a foreground archway •
in a bridge or other structure is not
only an attractive element itself, but
helps the eye to move forward into • .
the picture to the scene beyond.
gtudythese• points before you:.
"shoot,"
95 JOHN VAN GUILDER