By Our: Dow London, Jan, 22.
The centenary of the invention of photography, which isto be celebrated This week, has brought to hight the interesting fact that one of the treatest of te pioneers was a woman, ro. Margaret Cameron.
Daughter of an Indian oficial, she was' born in Calcutta in 1815, "She was a noted talker in the days when conversation was studied as an. art, 4ind of broad and generous sympathies, 'There ta a pretty story of her picking Trish beggar woman and her Iilue" gist on 'Putney Common and aking' them' to live in her house. She trained up the ite gin, who was extremely pretty, to. be. her houses maid, and 'a young Indian civilian, who used. to Gallon 'Mrs. Cameron, fell in love" with and. married he ultimately' the ex-beggar' maid was holding er own with the highest Indla~all due to Oirs. Cameron. 1 do not know when the Tatler took up Photography, but her portraits of "Tennyson, Browning and other celo= brities in their youth are. the best records existing of then, and she won fold medals all over the world reinforced by. (we other Judges, has had to decide whether "a. Chelsea Jshopman. had offended against the [Sunday Trading Act by selling eclairs and jam tarts at 2 pam. on a Sunday. The London County Council said that, had, relying on the clause inthe JAct which forbids selling bread and lour confectionery" after 16 a.m. on Sunday. To which the shopman retorted that another clause allowed him to serve a meal or refreshment all day, and what were eclairs if not relveshment?
The magistrate found for the shopman, So, on the I.C.C. appealing, did the three Judges, assuming that he was an honest man who wished to Jobey the law, the obscurity of which, Lord Stewart said, was almost unequalled in his own experience of 150 years.
'Of course the Frenchmen, Daguerre and Nlepes, Were taking photographs more than "100. years "ayo. But Daguerrotyp s were done on metal pintes, only. one of which: could. be Produced" at' each exposure. "The Young English mathematician, Yeney Fox Talbot, to whom it frst occurred to make a' negative from Which any number of positives could be printed, was the cal father of modern photo Today it Is estimated that 5,000,000 people In Great "Britain are cameras, and five times that
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