Forty Centuries of Ink Part 37

The employment of complementary color screens has made it possible to photograph colors which formerly indicated no contrast with white back grounds in the negative and later in the finished picture.

This discovery has destroyed the value of "safety"

papers, based on complete tints or possessing colored lines or words.

"IN Ma.n.u.sCRIPT.

"The rain storm wields a noisy pen Adown the pane, Wet splashes leaving, blots of strange white ink, Blunders of rain.

"And yet no poems of ecstatic men, Olympic faced, Could be as wonderful as these, I think, In cipher traced."

--ISABELLE HOWE FISKE.