e bonnet, cape, spectacles, and cloak. Their teacher,_
Miss Foster, _stands revealed_.]

_Christabel_. I knew it. I knew it. You dear! You dear! What a lesson
you have taught us! I shall never forget it.

_Morna_. So much better than reading us a long lecture.

_Miss Foster_. But you deserved the lecture.

_Lucille_. Yes, we did.

_Miss Foster_. I hope, dear girls, you have learned the lesson once for
all your lifetime. Let the main business of this Club be to add comfort
and cheer to a sad heart. But you will have to change the name of your
Club; you cannot be ninepins any more.

[Illustration: THE CAMERA CLUB]

This Department is conducted in the interest of Amateur
Photographers, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any
question on the subject so far as possible. Correspondents should
address Editor Camera Club Department.

PAPERS FOR BEGINNERS, NO. 2.

FOR THE DARK ROOM.

To those who have a room specially devoted to photographic work and
materials the only suggestion to them will be to adopt for their rules
and laws:

I. A label and place for everything, and everything in its place _with_
its label.

II. Keep everything clean and free from dust.

These two directions for arranging and caring for a dark room will save
hours of labor, and many spoiled plates.

The lighting of the dark room is the first thing which should engage our
attention. If the developing is done at night, the stopping out of
actinic rays will be avoided; but if in the daytime, care must be taken
to shut out all direct rays of light. If the plate is kept in the direct
rays of the red light, diffused light will not harm the plate. By
diffused light is meant the stray gleams which come through a crack, or
a door that does not shut tight enough so but what light shows around
the edge.

There are many makes of lantern of all grades and prices in the market,
and care should be taken in buying one that it is perfectly light-tight.
An actinic ray from the lantern striking the plate will fog it. Most of
the lanterns are made for using kerosene. A lantern in which the lamp
screws into the bottom is not as light-safe as one which sets wholly
inside the lantern, though there is less odor and grease from the
kerosene. The trouble with a kerosene lamp is that the confined air soon
becomes heated, causing the oil to lose its density, and it oozes out,
not only making an unpleasant smell, but greasing th