Any questions in regard to photograph matters will be willingly answered by the Editor of this column, and we should be glad to hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions. A NEW PROCESS FOR SENSITIZING PAPER.
 
In the American Annual of Photography for 1896, Mr. E. W. Newcomb tells how to make vignettes with an atomizer by spraying the paper with a sensitive solution. This seemed such a clever idea that the editor made a trial of the method, and found that many artistic effects could be produced in this way which could not be made by any other process either of printing or sensitizing the paper.
The sensitizing solution can be applied so as to obtain any form desired, and paper thus prepared may be used in many different ways not possible with a paper which is coated all over evenly.
The atomizer must be of hard rubber—both tube and stopper—as metal either corrodes or injures the sensitive solution. The spray must be so fine that it is almost a mist, and the atomizer should be tried before purchasing. Clear water will do to test the fineness of the spray.
The first experiments should be made with the blue-print solution, as this is not only cheaper, but easier to prepare and handle, and when dry it shows just where the solution has been applied. Pin the paper by the corners to a smooth board, set it in an upright position, and holding the atomizer perhaps a foot away from the paper, direct the spray to the place on the paper where the heaviest printing is intended. Squeeze the bulb gently, so that the solution will not soak into the paper, and at the edges, where the solution must be applied lightly in order to produce vignetted effects, hold the spray farther away from the paper. By a little practice one can soon make any shaped vignette desired.
If any member of our Camera Club is looking for some new way of making prints for gifts, here is a suggestion: Cut plain salted paper in sheets 8 by 10 in. in size. Take an 8 by 10 in. card-mount, and cut out a square from the centre, leaving a margin 1 in. wide on one side and at the top and bottom, and on the other side a margin 1? in. wide. Over the corners of this mat paste triangles of paper in the way that corners are made for desk-blotters, pasting the edges down on one side, and on the other leaving the paper free from the card-board, so that a sheet of paper may be slipped under the corners. Take a piece of plain paper, slip it into the mat—the corners holding it in place—turn it over, and hanging or fastening it against the wall, spray it with the sensitive solution in the places where you wish to print pictures. The mat made of card-board protects the edges of the sensitive paper, and makes a nice wide margin. Half a dozen sheets sensitized, printed, and bound together with an attractive cover, either made of roug............