TO USE UP ONE'S SNAP SHOTS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XIII, 28 March 1896, Page 365

TO USE UP ONE'S SNAP SHOTS.

Nearly everyone who travels about nowadays possesses a kodak, and very nice it is to take mementos of one’s 'walks abroad,’ but it is not so easy, when one gets home, to know what to do with them all. One may fill scrap-books for one’s self, for one's friends, and for hospitals, but still the photographs increase. I saw a series very prettily utilised the other day, by a number of small landscapes l>eing used alternately with squa.es of white paper, so as to form an ornamental chess table. They must be cut and fitted with extreme precision, and very thoroughly fixed at all the

corners by means of strong glue. When finished lay a clean sheet of paper over all and press evenly under a heavy weight ; the table should then be varnished. Some kind of black and white border would be required to finish it off well, but there are various ways of adapting head-lines or cuttings from illustrated papers to this purpose, so that with a little ingenuity something really original may be evolved.