In the "Questions and Answers" column a Lady asks how to get ready for a "backward dance." Comb your hair over your face, but do not put it in a knot. Put a false face on the back of your head and try to get as queer clothes as you can. Wear very large shoes, so that when you walk they will clatter. In the dance you walk frontward, but you look as if you were walking backward. You should wear also a very large hat with lots of feathers and ribbons bobbing about on it.

Amy Du Puy.
Allegheny, Pa.


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PREPARATION OF TINTED SENSITIVE PAPERS.

NO. 1.—HOW TO MAKE RED PRINTS.

Learning how to prepare sensitive papers is one of the most interesting of photographic processes, and an art that is quite easily mastered. While for general work the brown or black tones are more desirable, still for decorative work the tinted papers are very effective, and in these papers some simple directions on the preparation of tinted papers will be given.