use blue prints for such albums, for a good blue
print seldom fades or discolors, while aristo or albumen prints, unless
very carefully finished, are apt to grow yellow or discolor. In
after-years our memory albums will be considered of as much value as any
of our possessions.

SIR KNIGHT ALFRED C. BAKER asks "If he can become a member of the
Camera Club, and what are the duties of a member?" We shall be
very glad to enroll Sir Alfred a member of our Camera Club, and as
he says he owns two or three cameras, and finishes his own
pictures, he will doubtless be a great addition to our club. The
duties of a member have never been exactly defined, but we expect
our members to take an active interest in the work, and they are
requested to send to the club any new or improved way of doing
anything in photography. We also want each one of our members to
become a _specialist_ along some special line of photographic
work. We hope soon to organize a correspondence and exchange club.
Sir Alfred would like to correspond on photography with some of
the members of the club. He has also a Kombi camera which he would
like to sell or exchange.

THE MERRIEST TIME.

The merriest time? Why, kite-time,
Or the time for playing ball;
Or maybe you like rolling hoop
The very best of all.

But, "Here's my own opinion,"
With a little laugh, cries Moll.
"The best is when I take a walk,
And carry my parasol.

"When muffs are packed in camphor,
And tippets put away,
When you needn't always wear your cloak
In the middle of the day.

"Yes, I declare, the merriest time."
With a dimpling laugh, says Moll,
"Is when I go to take a walk,
And carry my parasol."

M. E. S.

A MESSENGER-BOY'S ADVENTURE.[1]

BY EDWARD W. TOWNSEND.

Danny Cahill had been a district messenger for a year, and it seemed to
him that he had been on every street and across every park in the great
city of New York. Mr. Kean, who had helped him to become a newsboy, had
secured him a position in a down-town messenger office, where he could
easily learn his duties, and gradually became acquainted with the city,
for most of his "calls" there were from offices which wanted messengers
for short errands, and he was only occasionally sent far up town. But
after six months he was transferred to an office in the fashionable part
of the city, ne