The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-05-24
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THE ssCHEAP0 PICTURES.

A00 NnAAk HAOlU0&6s
Ours b utilitafian country, and " want III
most " en- 81 Tor or noney. This II right bal
incur eager hasts 70 DO Il, W ass somstinss Dc.
ssivsd, and Ct the lsast. The housewife, for IN
ssanos, who paid nine cents for calico that faded II
the Arst washing had better havs paid twelve cent,
foTtAat which che kasv was ~fAst eolos." Sh.
did Aot savs the thrssSestS--she Iost almost nine
And hundssds ars Thus svssy day losing the three
esnta n thsir search aft3 shsap pictures.
Timss ars hard-CsftAinly. We must economics
~ sos1ss. And - We viii save the three cents,
~ less ths nine.
~, - Coesr, thinks he IL . first rata Judge Of
pistsrss; end hs ID ~ good judge - one could BE-
supposed to BE- whose attention has always been
given to other things. A. sees lot u sugar ct 81
cents per pound, and won't buy. Whyf Because
1t 10 half gravel. But A. goes and gets chs.p
Ambrotype-he don't see tho gravel there: but
years hence, when fever or consumption has pros
trated him, the old picsure-never much of thing
to look at-will b hunted up, and-capital like
ness, just like Ait will be almost gone. Then
A. and all his friends can see tho gravel. First
rate thing from which to mako > life-like Photo
graph or oil painting, In case Mrs. A, wants one
after .is dead And We have just such pictures
brought in every day, and wives and mothers weep
over them, - they state with sorrow they are al
they have. One beautiful boy Was, not long since,
brought 70 his mothers arms, that an hour before
he had left with bounding step and merry laugh,
and kiss yet warm imprinted on her lps-and
now comes almost . corpse, and his deep blue eyes
case up to her tender and long goodbye. He
IL gone where she who wesps and you who read
have never been and when his form Vas covered
with the sod, there remained above the earth bat
one "cheap" trace Of him-too bad TO satisfy, too
good to be destroyed. And when she brought it to
us and told u twas her boy, but 1t hadn t this
and hadn I that that her boy had, and asked us If
We could make one like him, We wished with all
our heart that through her fearful eyes, We could
but look into her soul and Photograph the image
there. And when, BY industry and effort, the pic
ture was completed and placed before her, and she
with heaving breast bad said, "Thsnk God, and
thank you, too !" We thought how great . pity il
that while James was on earth his face had not
been better copied.
Oh, that artists everywhere would refuse to pros
titute themselves and the art to the "eheap" and
70 . depraved public taste-vould, IL necessary,
fhss~s AhI Va 1Dt0AV0 kSycIsy ~ INC oCClui
reducing system which everywhere prevails
would be digninsd in the art, or be out OF it. We
would therefore add, that al those who wish pic
ture that cannot be excelled, East West, n well
for its besuty Of color and gracefuncss Of position
as for it's durability, can Be accommodated q. EN-
erson's Photograph Palace, No. 81 Main-st.
Life-size Portraits are also painted by @ II. No
len, Artist, at the above named Gallery.
j. II. EMERSON,
May2od4t Photographs Artist.