The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-05-20
Emcrson,s Photograph Palace +.
THE CHEAP PICTURES

Ours 10 utiiitarian country, and W want the
most we can get for our money. This 10 right but
inou eager haste TO do IL, No are sometimes de-
eeiyed, and got the least. The housewife, for in
stance, who paid nine cents for calico that faded in
the frs. washing had better have paid twelve cents
for that which she knew was "fast colors." She
did not the three cerm--she last almost nine.
And hundreds are thus every day losing the three
cents in thsir search after cheap pistares.
Times are hard-certsinly. We must scenomiss
--of course. And 50 We will save the three cents,
and lose the nine.
A., the grocer, thinks no IL = frst rate judge Of
piotures and he IL ~ good judge a. one could be
supposed to b. whose attention has always been
given 70 other things. A. sees lot Of sugar nj 81
cents per pound, and Won't buy. Whyi Because
- II half gravel. But A. goes and gets ! cheap
Ambrotyps-hs don't sec tho gravel there /; but
years hence, when fever or. consumption has pros
tratsd him, the old picsure-never much Of thi Z
to look at-wili be hunted up, and--capital like
ness, just like Ait will be almost gone. Thsn
A. and all his friends can see the gravel. Frat
rate thing from which tomakc lifs-like Photo
graph or oil painting. in case Mrs. A, wants one
after A. lis dead And We have just such pictures
brought in every day, and wives and mothers weep
over them. as they state with sorrow they are all
they have. One beautiful hoy was, mot long since,
brOaght 70 his mothers arms, that an hour before
he had lett with bounding step and merry laugh,
and : kiss yet warm imprinted on her lips--and
now comes almost corpse, and his deep blue Dyes
case up % her tender and a long good bye. lie
il gone where she who weeps and you who read
have never been and when his form was covered
with tho sod, there remained above the earth bat
ono "chcap" trace OF him--too bad to satisfy, too
good to be destroyed. And when she brought ii Ia
u and told US twas her boy, but II hadn't thi.
and hadn't that that her boy had, and asked us il
We could make one like him, we wished with al
our heart that through her fearful eyes, We could
but look into her soul and photograph the imag.
there. And when, by industry and effort the pic
ture completed and piscci before her, and sh,
with heaving breast had said, "Thank God, anc
thank you, too" We thought how great pity il
was that while james was on earth his face had nc
been better copied.
Oh, that artists every where would refuse to pros
titute themselves and the art TO the "cheap" an,
to depraved public taste--would, IL necessary
prefer life Of honored poverty to the disgracefu
reducing system which everywhere prevails
would be dignifed in the art, or be out OF il. w
would therefore add, that ali those who wish pic
ture that cannot be exceled, East or West, az vel
for Its beauty Of color and grscefuness Of postio
as for its durability, can DO accommodated .. Em
erson's Photograph Palace, No. 81 Main-st.
Life-sixe Portraits arc also painted BY q HING
len, Artist, ut the above named Gallery.
J. II. EMERSON,
May20d4t Photographic Artist.